@3rdgentaurusesarecool: IIRC This isn't that car, this is a whole new creature. The shell was donated by some shop and Bill had or bought or fabbed everything else.

@Dab O' Swine: dude, that's just wrong.

But wait! I thought privatization makes everything better!

@My X-type is too a real Jaguar: @twinrotormotor: $49.95 for that?

$152.94! Yikes.

@SantaRita: Agreed. Especially after the success that Porsche is having with theirs. Ferrari may also find it to be a viable way to develop their own system without running afoul of the F1 testing rules (I assume they aren't using the Williams system, but I really don't know).

@snapoversteer twts teh body elctrc: Amen. IMSA may have been mismanaged and far from perfect but it still seems like it was such a better organization/series than Grand-Am. In their quest to keep racing 'affordable' (there really is no such thing so why pretend) now when you go to the 24 hours of Daytona and it…

@irishman-AARGH!: agreed.

@ronmancvu: @DasHoon: Seconded. I enjoyed the LeMons coverage. I hope that is not the reason Murilee isn't around. What is more Jalop than welding crazy stuff together and racing it?

@JalopJeff: Very good call. I had a '68 230 sedan. The main problems with it were tin worm and my inability to understand the dual Zenith-Stromburg carbs (that was my inexperience, not the car's fault), but the SL didn't have those. I miss the sedan but I would really love to have a SL of that era someday.

@UncleBenny: actually, $375. The shell was free but he had to buy a transmission. He has photographic evidence that he found the engine in a dumpster outside of Cleveland and a limited slip diff randomly lying in the street in Akron that someone told him about after spotting it on Google streetview.

Why isn't there a Jalopnik decal on his car? All your promotional work should at least get you guys a bumper sticker on there somewhere.

It runs, it's clean, it's not rusty, it's not horribly unnattractive. That is NP right there. Add convertible and it's NP all day long, unless the top is shot, then it's just NP while the sun is shining.

@Triborough: I'm kicking myself on that one. I didn't have any spare cash at the time so I lost out. My boss, who isn't even a motorhead, bought some when it was down there and has obviously done quite well... grrr.

@irishman-AARGH!: I was working in a shop when one day my boss brought in his neighbor's XKE roadster and he wanted me to pull the engine and transmission out of it. I had never worked on one so I grabbed a Chilton's manual and, no lie, the first instruction was, "Remove driver's seat." ... Ahhh Hand-build British…

@∞Gïmmï∞Mørgäikkøŋëŋ∞: In the first vintage race car shop I worked in one of the customers had a DB2/4 that he ran in VSCCA events. That thing was a pain in the butt to work on but, like you, I thought it was just so beautiful I couldn't stay mad at it. The car just had a presence to it and the rear 3/4 view was just…

@dieselkopf: I'm not doubting you, because I'm cynical like that, but do you have proof? I'd love to see it.

@twinrotormotor: and before they tested for amphetamines too.

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@SlowMo: