Thread: The Roofus Special

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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.

This is what I want to graft into Roofus. The trans tunnel and the stock jag brake and clutch pedals.





Using the jag tunnel means the deep engine set-back is back. I cut out the tube that was under the bell housing.



It looks more racecar to me.





The jag firewall has a whole lot of ugly that needs to be trimmed off.





It will wait until another weekend. I had to go watch basketball (Go UK!)

I started trying to put the jag firewall inside of my boattail. Jag was at least a foot wider. A sawsall can fix that.













kinda reminds me of beef in a meat packing plant




Trim some more








Jag heater still fits






No telling how many times I removed and installed the floor and/or engine this past weekend. I quit counting after 15 or so times.


The pile of parts kept getting bigger and the floor/firewall got smaller.


I decided I need to lower the motor to get the floor to fit better. First I had to install a crossmember unter the motor.


Chassis spaced up 1.5" = motor lowered 1.5"