What's in your Garage that's NOT an XJ?

Two wheels, 4 wheels, wings or out drive, what's eating your time and money?
Here's just one of the other toys eating my budget, and time

The CAR, NOT THE GIRL! She's my buddies Wife

 

My 1990 Le Baron Convertible.....only 52k mi on it. Anniversary present from me to ourselves---- I got a steal of a deal on it last summer, we celebrated our 25th anniv. back in august, and the car turns 25 next year. So, it averages out - I told her its a 25 yr. old convertible for our 25 yr. anniv.

:lol: :lol:

 

I have this XS650 in one of my sheds:



This Honda Magna in the other:



This yellow fellow has been my usual ride for siy years, it will be for sale as soon as my SEca900 in road worthy (shortly).

I alos have a VeloSolex but I can't find any picture for the moment...

 

Here is the 72 VeloSolex:

 

An '84 Buick Regal and a '52 Ferguson TO30 tractor.

 

Only my XJ fits in the garage.
But in the driveway is a 1994 TJ Wrangler and 1995 F150 (puke green - ex-forestry service vehicle).

 

A Fox Mustang gettin' this; A NASTY Big Block Ford. Lots of goodies that should take it well north of 500hp. :twisted: After the kids are mostly all gone.


A 1961 Parilla 250 "Wildcat Scrambler" that I got from my father. It's been around for as long as I can remember.
Neglected too, like My Old Maxim, but for MUCH longer. I don't think that it's been ridden since the late 60's. 8O

This is NOT my Parilla!

They where THE bike to beat in the early sixties, if only briefly. They weighed right at 200lbs using simplicity and a number of engineering tricks, the wildest being the use of a single cam LOBE to open both the intake and exhaust valves. The motors where considered works of art that made a lot of horsepower for the day, 29, but that they where also fragili. In testament to that, my particular Parilla has a siezed rod that ignominiously ended it's racing career. Or so I've been told.

Mine is as rough as you can imagine from setting in that same dank, dark and wet barn as My Old Maxim, with an addtional 20 years of abject neglect.

So no pictures .

Plus my daughter's hand me down 3.2L SHO 5 speed powered Sable that needs some small repair, and a beater Windstar that is TRULY beaten, but runs and drives well.

Ok Ok the Sable is sitting NEXT to the barn right now, but it could fit with room to work if I moved some stuff around. :wink:

 

this was what I bought to decide
if I wanted to take a bigger step up
obviously I did
now this is for sale since I never ride it

 

07 escape, 01 dakota with a mild lift, and a 06 f350 dually, all in the drivway,

my seca shares the other 3/4 of my garage with tools and firewood...

 

1970 Victa 125 Utility and used constantly ever since. Only one rebuild I think but a bit of piston slap there now. Isn't it a beauty!

 

looks all motor. 8O

 

My red car

 

wow you guys actually put cars in your garage

 

Lol, FIX THE LINK!

 

i tried, i have better luck with carburetors

there

 

My KZ, my son tells me he can have the XJ when he grows up, LOL.

 

Oh man, pictures? Well, I have my wife's '01 TJ4.0, my XJ700, my SX350, my wife's CL175, lawn control equipment, odds and ends. I sold a bunch of bikes in the last few weeks to fund the XJ, so I am a bit bike poor right now.

 

LOL!

Two Lathes?!

 

little lathe, medium lathe, now we're thinking about a cnc lathe but the bmw is in the way.
i'll bet you got more than one hammer

 

Well of course! Cars go in the FRONT garage,


Bikes in the rear one



Or the Den

 

My Maxim is going in the dining room when I'm done with it....

....or so he believes.

 

Negotiation! It a highly under rated tool! How do think I got 3 Bikes in the Den?

 

lol!

Some serious baubles and bling?

(puppies work well too)

 

footrest by bmonkey36, on Flickr

and

in shelton by bmonkey36, on Flickr

and

golf cart on trailer by bmonkey36, on Flickr

and

werkin by bmonkey36, on Flickr

CN

 

Dang I feel inadequate!
However currently we have over 400 heads (16 varieties) of garlic hanging in the garage finishing their cure.

I also have 4 different hammers in there! 8)
Plus 2 more hammers in the house. :lol:

Polock, give me the BMW and you will have more room for your CNC lathe.
Why not a multi axis machining center?

 

Hogfiddles, could you take a big group photo? If you put in individual pictures of everything you have, we'll run out of room on the server.

Polock, I have a hammer. That's how I adjust valves.

 

I can't afford too many fancy infernal combustion engine toys, a lathe could be fun, got a coupla hammers 'n spanners 'n stuff but 16 varieties of garlic I could accommodate them.

 

A 78 XS1100E


80 XS1100LG


81 XS1100SH


68 Mustang (Yes that's another XS1100 but it was sold)


83 Venture


72 J2 Mini


72 Suzuki 125


80 CB650C


I do have 2 XJ1100 that are my current projects and a 83 XJ750.

 

my golf cart is electric, in fact all my golf carts are electric...

this t-bird I completely restored and upgraded the electrical system. all rust was sandblasted off and the battery trays were completely rebuilt. new paint and a vinyl wrap make it what it is now.

teebird 1 by bmonkey36, on Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/94636588@ ... 570850828/

this B-210 burden cart was lifted and regeared to slow it down after an electrical upgrade and a new 48 volt motor was installed.
b210 by bmonkey36, on Flickr


oh, yeah I have lots of hammers, spanners and the like too!

CN

 

Crazy talk.

Not me man; I have 4 motorcycles and 50+ years worth of accumulated tools and spare motorcycle parts plus my workbench and I gotta have some room to move around. Best I can do is to maybe fit one end of a car in for mechanical attention. And doing that takes some rearranging (a bike or two gets parked in the yard.)

 

Speaking of Golf Carts, this 1969 Subaru Sambar is actually SMALLER than a Golf Cart, if we ever get it built!

 

Here is my other XJ.......XJS V12.....another project for another time...

 

DO NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! use anything but a Jag 6 or 12 in that beauty!!!


Blasphemous indeed.

 

Bah, American V8 or be prepared to stand on the roadside on a regular basis.

 

Philistine.

I don't know what's worse, dropping an Amurrican V8 in that modern classic; or the Jaguar-badged TAURUS that they were selling during their Ford ownership.

It has to have a Jaguar motor to be a Jaguar. Otherwise it's a Forduar or a Jagord or Jagulet.

But that brings to mind the beautiful Tritons that were built back in the day; a Norton motor in a Triumph frame. Plus there were a ready supply of Beezumphs running around (BSA motor in...)

AND there would have never been a Cobra had a certain you-know-who not dropped a Ford V-8 into an AC "Ace" two-seater roadster.

That being said, you're not Carrol Shelby. Don't do it. Fix the bloody V12.

 

Mine is also holding a Smoker Craft Boat , John Deere tractor , Honda Foreman 450 atv , 2 Seca 750's , 2007 Ninja 250 for my wife who now rides with me . My jaguar ,Riding lawn mower .......lol and all the farm stuff . Hope to add a 2014 Ninja 1000 ABS with Traction control and Matching Hard luggage for next spring . Will need a bigger garage soon

 

Got into 4 wheels a few years ago. I found this 1930 Dodge DC8 and had to have it. All original parts including the wood wheels. Even have the original bill of sale from the Dodge Brothers dealer it was purchased at.

 

Sweet!

 

Well in that case ,,,,, I guess I'm just a Sinner here's mine

Small block Chevy 700r4 trans
It really needs a new home

 

Here is a pic of what is inside that XJS V-12 of mine....a V-12....no Chevy 350 going in this one.....

this V-12 runs great......just have to be aware of the Marelli ignition Meltdown.....where the the Marelli dual ignition rotor burns thru...thus stopping fire to either bank of 6 cylinders causing raw fuel to dump into catalytic converters...... then starting a car fire for which is all one can do to pull over & get out before the car blows up....

When this car is running, the Jag has great high end torque....

 

there is some serious monkey motion to operate the throttle bodies! that has to all kinds of fun to sync the throttle bodies.

CN

 

love it! too bad it's a 4 door!

CN

 

This ............

 

I'm "collecting" for retirement.....lol - and garage is bigger than house. '64 Cad Deville conv., sinner '66 Jag XKE conv./Chevy 327, sinner '88 Mitsu Starion /Ford 4.6, '95 Linc Town Car short limo, '01 Stang Cobra conv., '10 Mazda6 , China scooter, much lawn/yard equip but jewel is '58 Gravely walk behind tractor. Most proud that everything runs ! (usually) Have a '98 GMC 4WD dually/454 but it isn't a garage resident.

 

Oh man I stuffed a Top fuel Hemi into an XK-E Jag coupe once and my brother wanted to disavow me as kin!

And that was only a scale model. 8O :lol:

Keep the V-12 and make it work.

 

This is a yardsale find. Last year it got more miles then the XJ due to carb problems but not this year.