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Heck Flip, It wasn't me as I saw someone mention whiplash. Is that your little red car that you and your son drove all the way out to speed week and back safely in??? Wow, you are so lucky and as others have mentioned, look after yourself and if you still feel pain in the next while, go get it check out.

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Is that your little red car that you and your son drove all the way out to speed week and back safely in???

Yep. Lots of great memories in the 318,000 miles I put on that car. Lots of cross country parts runs, three detroit autoramas...including the one with the blizzard that dropped 20 inches of snow in Ohio and a bunch of other car shows that I went to as a spectator. I hope I can find another one for what insurance gives me.

Pics from my wife's cell phone

Hell what a shame but also a blessing that you were not hurt, goodness that still must of been frightening. Now tell me, was the airbags the cause of the windscreen breaking as I hope or something worse. And did you really have all those headers etc in that small trunk???

Wow, good thing you made it out of that one! It looks like that little Toyota protected you pretty well considering it's size.

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Hell what a shame but also a blessing that you were not hurt, goodness that still must of been frightening. Now tell me, was the airbags the cause of the windscreen breaking as I hope or something worse. And did you really have all those headers etc in that small trunk???

I didn't hit the windshield. Not sure if the pathfinder did or not. I think it got close.

Yep. I bought a big pile of used sprint car headers off of ebay and drove to michigan to pick them up.

I finally feel like digging in a getting some more work done. I'm getting over the whiplash pretty well. I'd say 90% gone.

I plan on going to dad's house next weekend come hell or high water. There should be new pictures soon!

Hey flipper i've only just found this thread but i'm watching with interest
sorry to hear about your accident and hope you recover 100% quickly.

I finally did something! I mounted my front spring.

After a whole lot of looking, I decided the spring belonged close to the front of the crossmember.



The fun started when I tried to figure out how to align the u-bolts. There isn't a straight line on my crossmember to use as a reference point.







Next issue was where the threads were on my bolts. I built a platform under the crossmember to have a nice flat surface to bolt to. The lovely seam down the middle is where I had to adjust the hole location on the platform. One chopsaw width was about perfect.









Now to remember exactly where I wanted to mount the crossmember.
Here...





...or here (pushed slightly forward)

Bad deal about your 318,000 mile car, glad your ok, got your moneys worth out of that girl I would say. She was serving you right to the end. Thats one time where a guy is happy NOT to be driving your street rod!

I'm seriously thinking about cutting the firewall and transmission tunnel out of of the donor jag and grafting it into this car to make the registration process a little more legitimate.

Anybody think having jag sheetmetal in the center of the car would be worth the effort?

Depends on your state's position on registering a custom fabricated vehicle. In Missouri it would be worth the effort; they're pretty tough on anything to do with vehicles.

Originally Posted by falconvan

Depends on your state's position on registering a custom fabricated vehicle. In Missouri it would be worth the effort; they're pretty tough on anything to do with vehicles.

Here's a link to the process in Kentucky, compiled by SEMA SAN, just for grins. Not sure you will gain anything by incorporating the firewall & tunnel, but you may want to chat with your local vehicle registration office. Some states might look at that as potential fraud (saying that you attempted to register a homebuilt vehicle as a Jag). Every state has their process...
http://www.semasan.com/images/pdf/SA...omplete-KY.pdf

Went down to the family junkyard in Mississippi

It really didn't take long to harvest the jag pieces. A small generator and a sawsall helped.

another roof.


now for the floor and firewall

After I got my stuff, I went looking around.

Guess what this was.





I had heard stories about it, but had never seen it until this weekend.






































it is a 1958 Jaguar XK150S that my dad parted out in 1962 ....and then pushed into a ditch and covered with dirt (trying to control errosion). Sometime since then, it was washed back out and moved about 100 ft from where it was planted.