I have got a very good hint for you to keeping the nice old DOHC Engine in good shape with todays ultra dry eco fuels: Use 1:100 API TC two stroke oil / fuel mix as regular driving fuel, that keeps the old fuel-system gaskets, rubber parts, alloy parts etc... and cast iron metal surfaces of those vintage engines in excellent shape...and it also lubricates the valves and upper piston regions. Most Porsche vintage owners in Germany do so :) Also keeps carbs and tank clean and rustfree
Yes indeed that is a Jaguar Mark 1. It was available in 1956 with only the 2.4L 112 HP double over-head cam straight six cylinder. This engine was really the 3.4 block with a shorter head and was referred to as a short-stroke. The next year in 1957 you had a choice of either the 2.4L or the 3.4L which produced approx. 210 HP. I have driven the 3.4and let me tell you its "See You Later Alligator Time". It's like a 325i Beamer on steroids. 0 to 120 MPH in about 14 seconds...ouch my neck!!!
Thanks for the history. I remember riding in one of the original 2.4 s as a school boy and had never experienced anything so fast before. It still is engraved in my memorie some 50 years later!
Great to see one on video. It is a 3.4 (Mk I), presumably 1959 or earlier, not a Mk II.
I overhauled a similar one in the early 1970's. With modern radials, uprated shocks, disk brakes, and manual overdrive it could cruise all day at 80 to 90 mph, and was good for 120mph, a memorable sight on its 120mph speedo. That was before speed cameras and overcrowded roads.
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I have got a very good hint for you to keeping the nice old DOHC Engine in good shape with todays ultra dry eco fuels: Use 1:100 API TC two stroke oil / fuel mix as regular driving fuel, that keeps the old fuel-system gaskets, rubber parts, alloy parts etc... and cast iron metal surfaces of those vintage engines in excellent shape...and it also lubricates the valves and upper piston regions. Most Porsche vintage owners in Germany do so :) Also keeps carbs and tank clean and rustfree
Schlipperschlopper 1 year ago
Yes indeed that is a Jaguar Mark 1. It was available in 1956 with only the 2.4L 112 HP double over-head cam straight six cylinder. This engine was really the 3.4 block with a shorter head and was referred to as a short-stroke. The next year in 1957 you had a choice of either the 2.4L or the 3.4L which produced approx. 210 HP. I have driven the 3.4and let me tell you its "See You Later Alligator Time". It's like a 325i Beamer on steroids. 0 to 120 MPH in about 14 seconds...ouch my neck!!!
bernie7171 3 years ago
Thanks for the history. I remember riding in one of the original 2.4 s as a school boy and had never experienced anything so fast before. It still is engraved in my memorie some 50 years later!
c2100 3 years ago
Nice video, never seen whitewalls on a MkII before.
xylaphonemaster 4 years ago 2
Only in Canada!
c2100 4 years ago
You lucky people!
xylaphonemaster 4 years ago
Great to see one on video. It is a 3.4 (Mk I), presumably 1959 or earlier, not a Mk II.
I overhauled a similar one in the early 1970's. With modern radials, uprated shocks, disk brakes, and manual overdrive it could cruise all day at 80 to 90 mph, and was good for 120mph, a memorable sight on its 120mph speedo. That was before speed cameras and overcrowded roads.
Skeptician 4 years ago
You are correct re the MkI.
I remember a local farmer winding his 3.4 up on the straight away past our local school in 1957.
This was the hottest car available with 4 doors. Mike Hawthorne thought so to.
Unbeatable until the Mini Cooper S came along in the early 60s when I remember seeing Bruce McLaren take on the Jags at Ardmore NZ
c2100 4 years ago