Bush-Bomb experts - Is this a Jaguar Mark V rusting in the desert?

I am 99% certain you are correct with it being a Mark V Jaguar (Saloon).
In distance past I used to own one. The one I had was a 3.5 Litre and sun roof and spates on the rear wheels. Also had big Fog lights in front of the grill.

wimmera

Mick, The suicide doors look very much like Riley to me.
Mike.

Mick, you're spot on with the ID. Bit of a shame that the Jag is so badly bashed up, they are quite a collectable car today.
Only 1675 were imported into Australia.
Did you check to see if it was a 2.5L or a 3.5L? [;-)

Mark V Jaguar

The Nullarbor is the place for abandoned wrecks. One needs to fly over it at low altitude to see them all properly.
Many an interesting chariot never made across the Long Paddock.

A miner mate, Rick, picked up an abandoned Daimler V12 (a fancy Jaguar) from the Widgiemooltha Roadhouse around 1983.
It broke down at Widgiemooltha and the owner just caught a Greyhound coach to the East and told the roadhouse owner to sell it for what he could get for it.
Rick paid the roadhouse owner $2500 for it, fixed what was wrong with it (it wasn't major), and ran around in it for about 18 months.
When he found out the grille was worth $2500 to buy - and he had no roobar - he sold it.

I drove it for a while, when Rick went on holidays. It was amazing how people treated you much differently when you rolled up in a Daimler V12. You could practically see people genuflecting. [;-)

This Coober Pedy sparky bloke - Dave "Swampy" Sawyer, is a legend for wreck collecting.
He has all the good stuff underground, though.
He won a $6000 toolbox from Just Auto because they reckoned he was a legend.
I still want to know how a Lambretta scooter got to Coober Pedy, though.

Dave the Legend

Coober Pedy Regional Times - April 2012

Cheers, Ron.

I sat at the bloody pub with you most of Sunday arvo and you failed in all that time to mention this little story!

Memory slipping or couldn't get the Ultimate out of your mind? :)

Way back in the early 70's I was working for a Detroit Diesel dealership. One of the other mechanics got offered a MK 5 Jag at a price he couldn't refuse. Now this bloke was one of the most fastidious tradesmen I ever had the pleasure of working with. So when he decided to do a restoration on this car he didn't take any half measures. Body work and upholstery re- done professionally while he attacked the mechanicals. If memory serves me this was an inline 6, can't remember the displacement exactly but 3.5 liter sounds about right. Apparently these models came with dual SU carbies, 1 3/4" I think. Somewhere along the line a previous owner decided a set of triples off an E type would give him a bit more oomph. The problem was that the Mk 5 pointy nose didn't allow for the extra carby to sit equidistant from it's 2 mates so had a "custom" manifold knocked up which had the 2 front carbies sitting very close together. This of course made tuning the carbies to run well almost impossible. Anyway this bloke decided that as part of the total engine re-build including a complete balance, to source a new manifold to restore the original twin carby set up.
Eventually the big day arrived for the maiden voyage, so to speak. He was going to bring this work of art to work for us all to admire. Now this guy as part of his "fastidiousness" was always on time and even when crook as a dog never took a sicky, so when he wasn't at work it seemed most unusual. He did show up the next day with a most despondent look on his face.
Apparently the day before while on his way to work, some clown came through a stop sign, tee boned him and wrote the Jag off. Fortunately all he suffered was a heap of bruising and nothing broken except for his spirit to some degree.

Cheers
Pop

Morning Mick

Thats not a Bush Bomb............

This is a bush bomb we found in the back blocks of Queensland on our recent Gulf trip.

From the inscription on the back of the car, it clearly showed it as a Fal Coon.....





Cheers


Stephen

Ahh the memories. Many, many years ago, when I was in grade six, the teacher who coached us in cricket had a mark v. He would take the whole team (12 of us) in his car to away games and upon returning to school afterwards he would do donuts on the grass adjacent to the playing fields. After school hours of course.

Truly boy heaven !!!!!!

But sadly a definite no-no in many ways these days.

Mick O,
Did you ever find out who dumped the small garbage compactor near the Mk5?

No it's not rusting, just Tin Worm at work.

Almost the same shape as the T van decaying next to it.

I have one too.

Hi Mick,
From memory I think the Mk 5s had 16" rims which made their off road capabilities right up there with VW Kombies and Early Landies.
None of that hard working low profile stuff we are fed today.
Those old vehicles could go places.
Check some of the achievements of the likes of Peugeot 203s (I think was the model from the fifties) They were unstoppable and from memory very successful in early Redex trials.
Clever balance of rolling diameter and lack of power.
But just enough to do the job.
So there is no surprise that one found it's way to wherever it happened to be when it died.
They didn't have to cart fridges, computers, inverters and hair dryers either.

Cheers, Bob

Mick O!!

That Jag had a mechanical problem, The transfer case gear lever broke off so the couldnt engage the front diff, abandonment was the only option !! :)) Michael

Mick,

When I saw the top photo, it looked very much like an Armstrong Siddeley.

However if the consensus is a Jag, I'll go along with that. :-)

Bob