Autos are important! The fascination of speed and control will catch you independent of age, size or marque. Mikko shows the style!

This thrill of speed is to my mind very well caught to canvas, 60*80cm in size, painted by Seppo Suomensyrjä in -86. The XJ-13 in full cry! Seppo has earlier been a true worshipper too and painted several excellent Jaguar pieces of art. Let me know if you like to hear more!  More about Jaguar arts, car paintings and sculptures at HJK pages. Many companies including this offer quality oil paintings based on your own car  photo.

Of course during time your dream cars change in looks and size. Open hatchback seems to be the right one now. Apparently he likes the Rover steering wheel! Do you remember your first car?

No matter how they look, if you own it you will give your devotion. Here Joni is washing the first car he bought for running his business

The beautiful lines of Jaguar MK V are liked by all our children too. I would enjoy this model also. Great style! Almost as magnificent as the drophead, which is on my dream list.

For the girls, however, the brand is not so important as the style! They turned their backs to this beautiful Triumph 2000 Roadster!

There will be an opera  tonight! Raisa to the right and friend Sanna are prepared.

My wife Reija and elder daughter Marja are entering the Mk7. Although parking in cities is tough job without a servo my wife manages the seven. Since then everyone has ripened a bit, especially the Mk VII as it had the 50's anniversary last year. The party was great; Mk1 and the Coupe were really well oiled as they drunk too much gasoline!

Not all of my friends are Jag Nuts, each have had their own areas of craziness. One collected army vehicles. Here the size starts to matter.

Our best friends are the Tellander family in Sweden. This guy is an enthusiast who once had as much as 11 Jags including this fine 4.2l XJ6. Later they got fewer because Morris cars, those funny small tins from England, have won a steady corner in their harts.

Sten owns also a Volvo bus that we used for many enjoyable tours near Gothenburg. What a great way to spend time with friends! His XK120 is immaculate as well as Daimler Double 6 and Jaguar V12 E-type roadster. More about Sten's XK here.

Now and then I have an opportunity for dreaming too. This Land Rover Defender was in my use during service to Discovery. The Land Rover dealer checked, however, first my chest whether it was hairy enough. Instant macho-feeling is true! Fantastic relic!

While in Sweden I had dreams of owning this Prime Minister class Rover 3-litre Coupe. P5 really is a stylish car but the Jaguar XJ6 was my final choice. One of the reasons was the steering, which had no feeling at all.

Very similar steering was in the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow -68 that friends loaned to me! It was not to my liking. Not enough feedback from the road!

During the house renovation,  Gordian Tork , a friend of mine and founder of Leather Master, came to show a real stallion. I guess the Jaguar clientele does not usually keep a Ferrari in the garage for fast outings. These are too different breeds.

The Jaguar style has been well copied to many replicas too. These boast enormous fun/cost-values. C-type is by far the best Jaguar. Compact, simple technology, awesome styling and rude performance! So, I have stopped dreaming of other makes and stay by Jaguar as many enthusiasts in Funland have done too! When I can't afford the real thing I try to get a model at least. I have some 200 Jaguar model cars so far and hopefully some day I have the time to display them on model pages! My 1/8 scale C-type is not as detailed as this one although made by same company.  A good list to model companies is available in the link collection - see below.

Albeit the Jaguar C-type body may represent the ultimatum in car design the Jaguar D-type engine is more than a motor - it is pure art. The spitting Webers fitted to this D-type gave a nice sound too.

If you like D-types but can't afford the real thing, you should consider a compromise like this. A list of the most important Jaguar model companies is found in the links.

And looking at Jaguar engines is always a pleasure, even though one can find them in peculiar surroundings. This was a fantastic insertion of V12 into a MGB roadster that I found in recent meeting in Sweden.

"HJK - Hollolan Jaguar Klubi" held it's first meeting in Lahti, a winter sports town about 100 km north of Helsinki.  The Classic Jaguars  were very important to Jaguar in their time. These  saloon cars carry a strong family resemblance yet being unique in their character.

Of course, motor cycles are another story. Norvin, a mixture of two bests, Norton and Vincent, would be my dream choice.

The rarest of all Jaguar Magazines is the Jaguar Tracks that Seppo Suomensyrjä used to publish. One copy went to Sir John Egan and the other he kept for himself, except this copy, which I got. Lately Seppo has not had time for Jaguar paintings, full size car statues take all time.  More about Jaguar in arts is found here.

I have had other hobbies than kitties too! During my studies in the Technical University of Helsinki I was a keen chess player. In this picture the standing gentlemen were the best in Finland during the sixties.

 

Daily working life spoiled the chess playing habit and I started to use my imagination for creating innovations. So far I have been granted 97 patents for different inventions mostly in the field of plastics processing.

 

Besides the Jaguar hobby I try every now and then get some motion by playing golf. In summer 2003 I was happy enough to make the first Hole in One on Messilä's beautiful course 6, which is 220 yards long. The are no longer par 3 hole in ones in Finland - maybe because of the small size of the country! This is why I was invited to the Carlsberg club.

If you have questions, please have a look on the Introduction - page, where my contact information is.