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12/08/2024 1:00 pm
British aeronautical engineer, Malcolm Sayer was brought on to Jaguar as designer for their Le Mans program in 1950. He hated the designation of 'designer' preferring "aerodynamicist". His designs were responsible for Jaguar's unique sculptural aesthetics for 2 decades. His legacy begins with the '51 XK-120 C-Type, the '55 D-Type, the '61 E-Type and the posthumous '71 XJ-S built 5 years after his death from plans and notes. The car I find the most fascinating is the one-off XJ13 that was to be a Le Mans entry. It housed Jaguar's new 5.0 liter DOHC V12 that produced 502 HP. It had too many bugs to iron out for '66 and subsequent rule changes made in ineligible the following year. With the other maker's technology now passing it by, the car was relegated to being stored in a barn. The V12 lived on, made streetable in a SOHC form for the '71 XJ-S. That was to result in the near demise of the car when it was brought out for a video shoot for the XJ-S debut crashing from the failure of a known defective tire and the wreckage went back into storage. It was "restored" not quite exactly by the original coach builder, Abbey Panels and now sits in the British Motor Museum. A wealthy gentleman commissioned a recreation with a few modern upgrades in gleaming polished metal. Check You Tube Jay Leno's Garage to see it in all its glory.
12/08/2024 2:23 pm
Still the model I'd save if I could save only one.
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12/08/2024 6:41 pm
All my pics disappeared and it won't accept uploads now
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12/08/2024 6:42 pm
All my pic disappeared and it won't accept uploads now.
12/08/2024 7:06 pm
@rich-sufficool Look at the bottom of the post box on the right side and there is now a "Maximum allowed file size is 10MB" that would pretty much wipe out all the photos and the videos on the site.
12/08/2024 7:15 pm
I tired to upload a 3.2 MB photo of my McLaren F1 car. Well the link to the photo is here but the photo is not showing up like normal, you click on the link and you see the photo.
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12/08/2024 7:21 pm
I am trying a video now:
It would not upload even the link for a video saying file size is too big.
13/08/2024 6:34 am
Looks like photos are back. But the posting error is still here taking you to the white page for WordPress.
In the 1/43 section one of the administrators said they had turned off some plug ins that were showing an error to see if that fixed the problem but it did not so the plug ins are turned back on.
I asked if the site had done an upgrade right before the problem started, if it did and that was when the posting issue started that points to WordPress having a bug in an upgrade, if no upgrade was done then something else is going on.
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13/08/2024 8:57 am
@grockwood Yep. It's such a beautiful design. Sayer was more than a designer/aerodynamicist... he was an artist.
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13/08/2024 9:40 pm
This is one of my all time favourite models and was a must have for my collection. Thanks for the fine post and wonderful pictures Rich.
So far, my posts are arriving on sight with no difficulty other than that WordPress white page.
The website has been worked on recently. Note the enhanced hand with thumb up and down for likes and dislikes.