Did you hear that 96% of all Jaguars are still on the road? The other 4% have made it home!
LOL! I remember one day I just happened to look out the workshop door in time to see a V12 Jag go around the corner and I thought, "That looks a bit smokey." I didn't give it much more thought until a couple of minutes later when a chap screeched to a halt out side of the workshop door and shouted frantically "There is a Jaguar car on fire around the corner!"
My apprentice and I grabbed an extinguisher each and raced down the road and around the corner to see this car well alight. Being well versed in extinguishers and the correct way to put the fire out, we sparyed from under the car into the engine bay before openng the bonnet so we did not ventilate the fire. After opening the bonnet we found we had been successful and the hot metal was smoking but the fire was out.
The owner was very grateful that we had done a great job and the fire truck pullled up as the owner was congratulating us. The firies all bounced out of the truck and set to work starting the pump and two of them wheeled out a hose. As the first one approached the car with his rather large hose, the owner became distressd and tried to discourage him from using the hose in case he caused damge to the metal of the engine from dousing it with water.
The fireman looked at him dead pan and said, "Mate, see a fire, put water on it" and let rip with the hose.
Was one of the funnist things I have ever witnessed!!
