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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
You get to go stand in the corner. That would gut any value in the car and make worth squat.
If I had room in the garage and some extra $$ this would be mine... no question!
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Even though it'd make it actually drivable and reliable?
Rip out all the lucas crap and replace it with delco, put a small block and a muncie tranny in it, and you've got a real car.
Call it a Lister if it makes you feel better.
Or, leave it like it is and stare at it and worship it, and be afraid to drive it more than a block because you know it'll leave you stranded.
My buddy in high school had a 12 cylinder E type. I used to sync his carbs for him. A couple times a week.
That cable linkage was a thing of beauty 
Electrical fire? no big deal, he carried gloves in the car at all times for that sort of thing. Just grab a handful of smoking wires and yank.
Then call me to hot-wire it so he could get it home.
If jaguar has installed a fire extinguisher under the dash as OEM, I'm sure the extinguisher would have spontaneously burst into flames.
Those cars are truly beautiful from an artistic point of view, but from an engineering viewpoint they are uglier than a Pontiac Aztec. IMHO, of course.