Four S Types at a wedding.
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:36 pm
So this has been two years in the planning due to covid but on Saturday I finally achieved four S Type Jaguars at the same wedding. I have done three before and next week I have another three S Type wedding but this is the first time with four. Friday the weather was sunshine. Sunday sunshine and showers. Saturday, the day of the wedding, Biblical rain, roads flooded, not nice and such a shame for the Bride and Groom.
Driving S Type Jaguars in the rain is not good as the demister system is none existent and the windscreen wipers a kin to wiping a wet rag across the glass.
I was driving the Gold coloured S Type (borrowed from a friend for the day) which had no PAS and no visibility trying to turn it around in a really tight entrance to the church St Petrox in Dartmouth. It was either a five point turn or reverse 400 yards up a narrow lane to turn around and reverse back again to the church.
These were the best photos I could get due to the rain. The gold S type is a 3.4 Manual and it was the first time I have driven a manual Jaguar since I was 10. I was surprised actually how light the clutch was but did find doing hill starts difficult because of the position of the handbrake. My cream S Type (driven by a friend on the day) is a 3.4 Auto and with that on a hill you just left foot brake as you applied power to pull away. The other two more white coloured S Types are both manual 3.8s one with steel wheel the other with wires.
Driving S Type Jaguars in the rain is not good as the demister system is none existent and the windscreen wipers a kin to wiping a wet rag across the glass.
I was driving the Gold coloured S Type (borrowed from a friend for the day) which had no PAS and no visibility trying to turn it around in a really tight entrance to the church St Petrox in Dartmouth. It was either a five point turn or reverse 400 yards up a narrow lane to turn around and reverse back again to the church.
These were the best photos I could get due to the rain. The gold S type is a 3.4 Manual and it was the first time I have driven a manual Jaguar since I was 10. I was surprised actually how light the clutch was but did find doing hill starts difficult because of the position of the handbrake. My cream S Type (driven by a friend on the day) is a 3.4 Auto and with that on a hill you just left foot brake as you applied power to pull away. The other two more white coloured S Types are both manual 3.8s one with steel wheel the other with wires.