Hi Norman! 
Absolutely! I have reminisced about those days so many times! Still feel bad we lacked “appropriate sleeping conditions” for you.
Hope you are doing well and would love to see you again anytime you make your cross country trip. 
Or perhaps, we will make it back to the NE. 
Tom,
I missed that… 
Head injury, all healed? 
Like I didn’t feel bad already for all the things Norman did to help, he was paid with a head injury and body pain from sleeping on the floor!!!
Gee I don’t remember any discomfort. Must have been the head injury.
Just finished driving home to Connecticut yesterday from 7 weeks of skiing in Utah and Colorado. This time on my way home I stopped to see Jim Garis in northern Indiana and picked up some parts for my 420. Man he has a lot of Jag stuff.
Do we need to set up another build party to finish off Candy’s Jag? If we do I’m in. That was just too much fun.
I am awaiting word from the GC… 
EDIT: I’ll start packin!
Ditto!
…and 20…
Paul, Doug, Norman and Craig? Oh lord that would be a shindig.
Candie
I would love to come but suspect I would have little value added.
Paul - decades of Jag engine experience and (even though he’ll decry this comment) expertise (*). Intimate knowledge of the patient; involved in initial dissection/diagnosis.
Norman - already knows the patient and aptly applies his years of experience building / engineering / driving race cars. Has already provided the necessary donation to the Jaguar Restoration Gods - shed blood.
Doug - current caretaker of one of the finest restorations on a Series 1.5 on earth. School trained engineer with decades spent in support of NASA’s space/launch/rover vehicles. Give him the proper wrench, Step back, and Watch/Enjoy the magic. I’ll bet he repairs the nonfunctioning gauges and any other electrical gremlins in moments.
About the only guy I can think of to add more value is if Dick Maury made a guest appearance
Candie - I can’t even imagine you being in better hands. Let the experts do their thing and enjoy the fruits of their labors. Give Beauregard “Bogey” and Dodger (**) a scratch behind the ear for me.
(*) - Paul would likely support the nonsense definition of an EXPERT.
Best done by examining the components parts -
EX - a washed-up has been
(S)PERT - a drip under pressure
(*) These are Candies two rescue dogs. Never has a fur baby had better lives.
Unless my memory is faulty, which has been known to occur, you walked me step by step through the work I did on the parts pre installation, and your photos and videos are PRICELESS!
I could always hold you hostage in my garage for a couple of days an would come home to a perfectly organized garage and tool boxes worthy of any garage porn!!
One of my favorites!
Someone who goes into a serious explanation of doing something fairly simple or unimportant like how to drive a bumper car.
My favorite from the pre-Power Point days: Expert: “Someone with a Carosel of slides speaking more than 250 miles from home.”
What an eclectic lot we are …… as I learn more about backgrounds of the contributors to this forum …. The more I am humbled by their life’s work and experience.
Com’on, Danny – don’t be shy.
What highlights are on your curriculum vitae? – with apologies to Candie for hijacking her thread (like THAT never happens 'round here). Gotta be some interesting tales-to-tell from down under, Mate.
I was just a pen pusher ( accountant and financial planner) …Helping people to save and prepare for retirement and estate planning…… necessary and satisfying but not that exciting…… since retirement…. Have been heavily involved in emergency management ( all hazards all agencies) as a volunteer…… in Aust we use AIIMS ( equivalent of your NIIMS) …. Really interesting and I’ve learnt heaps and been involved in some very interesting natural disasters
So to answer your question I’m just an everyday Joe.
So, so, true. Also the amazing work we see here regularly from the professionals and former professionals as well as the amateurs (only using this for lack of a more apt word)
Everyday Al
Alan …yes …. I would use the word “unpaid “professionals …… a professional is one who uses their talents to do the best job that they can!
Having worked in EM alongside “ paid or career” employees ……I can assure you some are not professional at all ….when does someone in the middle of a stressful and very difficult natural disaster …… go home because their shift time is over! ….especially when there is no replacement available! …… and be bragging about all the allowances they are getting!
I am not referring to those doing the tactical on the ground work …… but those managing the incident ….naturally there are fatigue management issues …but you just don’t upsticks when everyone else is working their arses off to ma ange the disaster
Rant over
Candie, being the hostess with the mostest…
…broken car parts, put them in MY room.
Honored.
I think…
Well, you FIXED that colossal horror scenario.
You apparently safely traversed the western edge of the Great Plains.
Mileage still in the high-30’s/low-40’s miles/gallon?
