And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I still have bad dreams and it was 56 years ago I had a '66 roadster. I was eighteen years old and all my money and time went into keeping that car running. It had the European 3:08 rear gear and would do an indicated 155mph.
Everything on this image is worth exactly $0. This is just more Ai slop.
Cars have mounted wheels but are off the ground on stationary platforms (no wheels on the platforms). How is this line supposed to move? Car assembly lines though the 80s had cars rolling on their wheels as soon as those were mounted. It was easier to push cars from one station to the other.
What are the workers supposed to be doing working on the exterior of finished painted cars? You have a guy installing glass on a window that that already has a glass. A guy that looks like he is installing trim on the right fender of a car that has no trim in that area.
What are these guys supposed to be installing on these cars? On the sides of a real assembly line you would have the parts that will be installed on the car. There are no parts to install on the sides of this assembly line. The only discernible part is one wheel leaning against a bench but interestingly enough every car on the image has wheels on! What is this wheel for?
White car in the foreground has a fender partition line on the right fender that doesn't exist in real cars. XKEs have one piece hood/fenders.
I think this is a publicity photo of the final inspection line. The parked cars are a convertible with the top down with its rear end towards the camera so the interior can be seen, a number of coupes and a convertible with the top up and all the standard paint colours (pale primrose yellow, opalescent blue, BRG, old English white, claret, etc) are present. The details such as the number of holes in the steering wheel spokes, the park brake lever, the shadow of the taillight housing on the bumper, and the fitting at the top of the A post are all correct. That isn't a gap between the fender and hood, E-Types could be ordered with an optional thin chrome moulding on the crest of the front fender. Al_in_Ottawa
It was a beautiful thing back in the day. Still have I got under sold on a '53 xk. Ford finally bailed them out. I Love the 5.0 supercharged.
ReplyDeleteThat's 2 or 3 million dollars worth of E-types.
ReplyDeleteYou've obviously never tried to repair one or keep it repaired. I still have bad dreams & it was 20 years ago.
ReplyDeleteMy next door neighbor's Jag was in the shop more than it was in his driveway.
Deletebeautiful cars...but each one consumes 5 times its weight in spare parts to keep it running
DeleteI was going to say, building them was never the problem. Keeping them running however....
DeleteI still have bad dreams and it was 56 years ago I had a '66 roadster. I was eighteen years old and all my money and time went into keeping that car running. It had the European 3:08 rear gear and would do an indicated 155mph.
DeleteEverything on this image is worth exactly $0. This is just more Ai slop.
ReplyDeleteCars have mounted wheels but are off the ground on stationary platforms (no wheels on the platforms). How is this line supposed to move?
Car assembly lines though the 80s had cars rolling on their wheels as soon as those were mounted. It was easier to push cars from one station to the other.
What are the workers supposed to be doing working on the exterior of finished painted cars? You have a guy installing glass on a window that that already has a glass. A guy that looks like he is installing trim on the right fender of a car that has no trim in that area.
What are these guys supposed to be installing on these cars? On the sides of a real assembly line you would have the parts that will be installed on the car. There are no parts to install on the sides of this assembly line. The only discernible part is one wheel leaning against a bench but interestingly enough every car on the image has wheels on! What is this wheel for?
White car in the foreground has a fender partition line on the right fender that doesn't exist in real cars. XKEs have one piece hood/fenders.
AI slop
I think this is a publicity photo of the final inspection line. The parked cars are a convertible with the top down with its rear end towards the camera so the interior can be seen, a number of coupes and a convertible with the top up and all the standard paint colours (pale primrose yellow, opalescent blue, BRG, old English white, claret, etc) are present. The details such as the number of holes in the steering wheel spokes, the park brake lever, the shadow of the taillight housing on the bumper, and the fitting at the top of the A post are all correct.
DeleteThat isn't a gap between the fender and hood, E-Types could be ordered with an optional thin chrome moulding on the crest of the front fender.
Al_in_Ottawa
I did wonder about the AI aspect when I saw workers working.
DeleteI think those Series Is are the best of the bunch, even with the mechanical quirks.
ReplyDeleteSeries 1 e-types ran 61-68..
ReplyDeleteI had one back in the day; champaign gold convertible with hard top, in California, driving back and forth to fly Navy jets. Fun!
ReplyDeletePre-TATA!
ReplyDeleteAi garbage ! Cars come down a moving track not like this.
ReplyDeleteYou need glasses
DeleteBrown's Lane? Steve_in_Ottawa
ReplyDeleteNEVER COULD
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