Jaguars actually burn quite nicely without any help at all, but the frame on the old sedans is very durable, built like a Churchill tank to withstand a Bangalore torpedo, so even if the rest burns you've still got the basis for a great piece of modern art or a street barricade in time of national insurrection.

We have a garage in Orillia that specializes in repairing Jaguars, and their claim to fame is that they can take any car that's running poorly (like a Jaguar) and reduce it to a condition where it probably won't run at all! They get very little business, but somehow keep lingering on year after year. Every now and then you see a Jaguar that actually works in town, so that means there are one or two they didn't fix yet, I assume.

I once had a Honda Civic "fixed" by them...twice...in 2 weeks. It never ran right after that, so I sold it to a friend for enough money to pay for the repair bills. He took the carburetor apart and cleaned it (the garage never thought of doing that), and presto! The Civic was running right again. This remains a sore point with me. I loved that car.

Give me Japanese auto engineering any day. American is good too, but nothing runs like a rice burner! :-)

- LH