1 year, 4 months, 19 days, 5 hours, 10 minutes

I really haven't made any progress on the thing in a long, long while. Circumstance, money and school are starting to make this long term project much more long term. Oh well. Maybe someday.

Bring me thine mead, woman

There is work to be accomplished.

So these are more or less the glaring issues with the car at the moment.

And then I was Steve Jobs

 Don't let the picture fool you, the rust gets worse further down.

 Where the heater core used to be. BL was doing some serious trolling when they designed the engine bay; to get the brake master cylinder out of there, you've got to remove the heater core which in itself is about an hour job since there are so many lines filled with coolant that you've got to disconnect. Ended up just fashioning a small reroute so I could run the car without the core on and my lulzy soldering job turned out to work pretty awesomely.

Fuel pump was taken out and is awaiting a rebuild. It's kind of far down my list of things to do since I don't NEED the original to get it running. But the main focus here is dat hole to the right of the filter. Still deciding the best way to go about doing that.

tl;dr, RUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUSTRUST

Yeah, I know. Sorry about the lack of posting, I've been ridiculously busy lately. So uh, here's a picture. 

I know I've been saying I was going to do this...

Okay, so this is admittedly a little overdue (read: a year and then some) but hey, at least I got around to it eventually, right?

Long story short, about a year and a half ago I came into possession of a 1971 Jaguar XKE V12. It was somewhat of a barn find and had been sitting free of human hands for about 7 years, and free of an ignition spark for nearly 20.
 The original owner of the car was a KRAFT foods executive who bought it in late 71. Years later, an older gentlemen bought the car and put the remaining of the 57,xxx original miles on it. But, as with almost all British cars, it soon became too much of a money pit and the owner wasn't able to keep up on the maintenance and had to sell it. Years passed and the Jag gained a new owner in KY of all places, but from the horrible carburetor rebuild job and other botched attempts at maintenance on the car, it can be reasonably inferred that the guy was in way over his head. Enter late 2009, the car changes hands hopefully for the last time, as they happen to by my hands, and is now slowly being returned to it's former glory.