DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Part 4 Logistics… https://i.postimg.cc/dVkGBTKp/03608317-A5-BA-4830-A55-A-8-CF7897290-CF.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/m26QCyK7/2443-B008-482-C-4-A35-A8-EF-7-E1-AC1-F47-CC1.jpg Delivery day dawned in October 2021…and with it the do or die answer to a long held question….. Would it fit through the gate….?...

For those who may not know, this is Lunaz https://i.postimg.cc/RhVRRtyk/91-CA1-ECD-6-E0-B-4-E5-C-B95-F-41612-C5-A1-C23.png https://i.postimg.cc/9fZJFCyn/251-B067-B-2-AF5-4-FA8-9-F65-3-B90-F8917-DBB.png Retains the purity of the design, a little too much chrome up front, but sits really well and marr...

Hi Jonny
Lunaz I like..it’s far purer..and it’s real…great stance as well…..KT is less so..be interesting to see what is actually looks like when they build one..is there a launch date..?

Hi Neil

In a word…yes

A substantial development of the XK as the C Type was more of a monocoque with an integral space frame skeleton

Hi Hugo….all will be revealed soon…

Hi Peter
The plan is ready by this time next year…..as is often the case it helps if progress is ahead of the updates….

Thanks Graham….both the East Sussex “Metal Meister” is most certainly a fundamental part of this journey…as too is “Steve the paint”…..so I think there may just be a few creative moments shall we say….

I have Keith, but it really doesn’t do it for me….and a big issue I have it’s all computer generated visuals…not a single image is real…..what we all do with our cars is completely our business…so I wish them luck…but I find what they have done has gone too far..Lyons was not in favour of gratuitous...

Part 3 Having imported the E Type from the US many years ago I was fairly relaxed about doing something similar this time, but as the sums of money involved were somewhat greater this time I was, to say the least somewhat nervous about buying privately..not that a dealer is an immediate answer to se...

Thanks Keith…hope you’re well….it’s been a while since I did this diary thing….that took me ages to remember how to upload to Postimage site and then do “the link thing..”

am off to walk up to the local….need a refreshener…..…. ….a place where great decisions are taken

Best
Jp

Part 2 As I sit writing this I don’t recall if at that moment I saw the car I wanted or simply made my mind up to make a decision…. there was a part of me that I recall thought about doing a resto modification on a Volvo P 1800, a car I have always liked and I did wonder whether I should convert to ...

Part 1 Like all good stories, there needs to be an opening which gains the attention of the reader…a plot that develops well in the middle and a satisfactory and conclusive ending Well, I’m not much of a writer, and I wasn’t sure if I had the motivation to write a third build diary…but then I though...

Hi Keith

Well that would be my next step back in time…currently at Barry’s

It’s an XK120..a coupe..

Thread will follow….one of these days…

All the best
Jonathan

Don’t know…but what strikes me is that with so many restorations the car had over the years how much of the original is actually present…so why buy the car…for the chassis..?…if the engine has had new cases and so many interior and trim like parts not to mention all original fasteners (perhaps) then...

Hi Mike
Long time no see…you should be with us at CLM this year…..you know you’d love it…(.again…)
All the best
Jonathan