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Classic Roadsters Duke Jaguar SS-100 Replica, Epilogue.
I don't know if anyone sees or is following this part of the forum any more, but I thought I would post a final report of my Jaguar ownership experience after reviewing my original thread. On May 22, 2019, I helped load my Jaguar onto a transport trailer to be shipped to its new owner in Phoenix. After six years of ownership that featured lots of fun driving, a few breakdowns, quite a bit of maintenance education and work, we decided we had satisfied our Brit roadster yen and wanted the garage space back. A Craigslist ad brought me a willing buyer with cash. As an investment, the Jaguar was a loser, but considering the money we put into it overall, probably equivalent to the depreciation on any vehicle.
I documented most of the work that was done to make the Jag a reliable and attractive car in my first thread. At the end, it was in fact very reliable. The last recurring problems turned out to be fuel system issues that were working together to be hard to diagnose--carburetor and fuel pump. The rebuilt carb I installed was not internally calibrated quite right, including wrong jets, so a professional rebuild of the rebuilt solved one part of the equation. But it was still stalling. That turned out to be due to bad fuel pumps. The Duke was built with a non-stock electric fuel pump mounted just below the tank. The original and first replacement pumps were overheating and cutting out. My mechanic finally installed a racing-duty pump which totally solved the stalling problem.
Like folks say about boats, it was a happy day when we bought the Jaguar, and a happy day when we sold it. No regrets. Loved the experience and even learning from the problems. And over 4,000 miles of joyriding.
And so we move on. I hope folks who own, or think about owning or have interest in replica cars, and the Duke model particularly, find something of interest or encouragement in what I have shared. And to whoever owns our Jaguar now, and wherever they may be, happy driving!

Classic Roadsters Duke Jaguar SS-100 Replica, Epilogue.
I don't know if anyone sees or is following this part of the forum any more, but I thought I would post a final report of my Jaguar ownership experience after reviewing my original thread. On May 22, 2019, I helped load my Jaguar onto a transport trailer to be shipped to its new owner in Phoenix. After six years of ownership that featured lots of fun driving, a few breakdowns, quite a bit of maintenance education and work, we decided we had satisfied our Brit roadster yen and wanted the garage space back. A Craigslist ad brought me a willing buyer with cash. As an investment, the Jaguar was a loser, but considering the money we put into it overall, probably equivalent to the depreciation on any vehicle.
I documented most of the work that was done to make the Jag a reliable and attractive car in my first thread. At the end, it was in fact very reliable. The last recurring problems turned out to be fuel system issues that were working together to be hard to diagnose--carburetor and fuel pump. The rebuilt carb I installed was not internally calibrated quite right, including wrong jets, so a professional rebuild of the rebuilt solved one part of the equation. But it was still stalling. That turned out to be due to bad fuel pumps. The Duke was built with a non-stock electric fuel pump mounted just below the tank. The original and first replacement pumps were overheating and cutting out. My mechanic finally installed a racing-duty pump which totally solved the stalling problem.
Like folks say about boats, it was a happy day when we bought the Jaguar, and a happy day when we sold it. No regrets. Loved the experience and even learning from the problems. And over 4,000 miles of joyriding.
And so we move on. I hope folks who own, or think about owning or have interest in replica cars, and the Duke model particularly, find something of interest or encouragement in what I have shared. And to whoever owns our Jaguar now, and wherever they may be, happy driving!

Classic Roadsters Duke Jaguar SS-100 Replica, Epilogue.
I don't know if anyone sees or is following this part of the forum any more, but I thought I would post a final report of my Jaguar ownership experience after reviewing my original thread. On May 22, 2019, I helped load my Jaguar onto a transport trailer to be shipped to its new owner in Phoenix. After six years of ownership that featured lots of fun driving, a few breakdowns, quite a bit of maintenance education and work, we decided we had satisfied our Brit roadster yen and wanted the garage space back. A Craigslist ad brought me a willing buyer with cash. As an investment, the Jaguar was a loser, but considering the money we put into it overall, probably equivalent to the depreciation on any vehicle.
I documented most of the work that was done to make the Jag a reliable and attractive car in my first thread. At the end, it was in fact very reliable. The last recurring problems turned out to be fuel system issues that were working together to be hard to diagnose--carburetor and fuel pump. The rebuilt carb I installed was not internally calibrated quite right, including wrong jets, so a professional rebuild of the rebuilt solved one part of the equation. But it was still stalling. That turned out to be due to bad fuel pumps. The Duke was built with a non-stock electric fuel pump mounted just below the tank. The original and first replacement pumps were overheating and cutting out. My mechanic finally installed a racing-duty pump which totally solved the stalling problem.
Like folks say about boats, it was a happy day when we bought the Jaguar, and a happy day when we sold it. No regrets. Loved the experience and even learning from the problems. And over 4,000 miles of joyriding.
And so we move on. I hope folks who own, or think about owning or have interest in replica cars, and the Duke model particularly, find something of interest or encouragement in what I have shared. And to whoever owns our Jaguar now, and wherever they may be, happy driving!

It has been a busy summer and not much activity on the Jaguar. I have been driving it several times a week and have become confident in its reliability. Other than needing carburetor work (which will wait until next year), the little car just goes about happily, and it makes me happy driving it. My wife thinks I take corners a bit too fast. Uh, yeah! It feels like a slot car and there is no leaning. I haven't driven it aggressively enough to do more than get a little tire squeal and am not about to find out when the rear end will swing around.
So this summer saw us sell and say goodbye to our Dolphin Class A motorhome and Chevy HHR toad car. The replacement is a much smaller (by comparison) Pleasure Way Lexor Class B camper van on a Chevy van. We are no longer doing the extended RV living thing since getting a park model unit in Yuma, AZ, and are looking forward to more relaxed touring and double (at least) gas mileage. So here is the leisure fleet...

So here's what we ended up with on the extension housing repair.
The new parts (L) and the old parts ®. The old support was fabricated from some kind of casting foam or rubber. The metal insert was trashed and the bearing cushion was cushioning nothing.

Here's the underside view of the finished job. The red lines show where the entire extension mount was moved to the left about 3/4 in so the extension at a 90 deg. angle to the rear axle would not be pushing to one side of the forward mount.

Not too much else to report. I'm happy to get this thing fixed. I'm off to make up for a few month's lost driving time.

I believe that the axle housing with extension is available from GMPartsDirect, but not the extension alone. The price is steep.
I would make sure that you do indeed need the housing. A bad housing is rare and probably most are due to collision damage. If it's just the rubber donut or bearing, you are in for a lot of trouble and expense because it seems that that the extension housing doesn't sell often.
Frustratingly enough, the parts page for the group "UNIVERSALS AND REAR AXLE" doesn't have a parts diagram. The bare differential case is listed under rear suspension as well at $126, but they also list an Axle Housing for $567. Without a parts diagram I can't tell.
Most other GM dealers that sell online use the same catalog software so I don't have a lot of hope that the parts diagram will be on another site.
You might try Rippy Automotive. The head of the parts department there can get anything that exists.

That platform was sold for various cars in the 1976-1994 time frame as follows:
Chevette (US, Latin America, Chevy or GMC) Pontiac Arcadian in Canada Pontiac T1000 or 1000 (USA, 1981-1987) K-180 in Argentina Vauxhall Chevette Opel Kadette Isuzu Gemini Holden Gemeni (Australia) Chevrolet 500 pickup in Latin America through 1994 Grummett (station wagon or pickup, Uruguay) See Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Chevette

Still waiting for the Duke's replacement differential extension to arrive. The weather got nice and I want to drive it.

The fun thing about The Duke is it is a car AND a puzzle!

Here are some pix of our Duke.
1. A promo picture of it from the Barrett-Jackson auction. Don't know what Dream Machines refers to or what the price is based on. Nobody paid anywhere near that. Also, they listed it as a '39 but the picture shows '37.

2. Front view of Jag after clean-up and new tires.

3. Rear view. Someone mentioned putting a classic suitcase on the rack. I couldn't find one at the thrift shops but did find this aluminum covered replica trunk pretty cheap. Don't know if it adds or detracts from the overall look?

4. On a whim, I entered the Jag in a local car show last summer. I got a 2nd place ribbon in the "exotics" class.

... this is the one that got the 1st place trophy

Kind of hard to top that.
Just a couple of things I have noticed. Regarding clearance and body height, the distance from ground to lowest point on the bottom of a running board on my car is 8" on the driver side and 8 3/4" on the pass. side. Gotta check why the difference.
I have seen three different sizes of headlight "can" housings on replicas. Mine are medium size, 9 1/2" OD. Some are old single large headlamp size and some are huge, like 12" diam.