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Worm-drive Jubilee clips look tidy and cost pennies, but on a sixty-year-old Jaguar cooling system they can be a false economy. Here is why I swapped to constant-tension clamps, which hose grades I chose, and the torque settings that finally kept my garage floor dry.
Historic-vehicle MOT exemption is a tax-time paperwork status, not a promise that your E-Type is safe. Here is a realistic Saturday-morning walkaround covering the fifteen things a tester would still have poked at, with the E-Type weak spots worth knowing before the first proper run of spring 2026.
The seller says the E-Type is solid. In a British damp garage, that word needs checking. Here is where to poke, what a magnet and borescope actually reveal, and how to tell a project from a structural money pit.
Most home restorers buy too many tools too soon and still round off the first SU carburettor nut. Here is an opinionated £500 kit for E-Type jobs that actually matter, plus five boot-sale bargains to leave alone.