Tips for the care and feeding of your 'Kitty'.

First things first, your Kitty likes to be clean but she's pretty particular about bathing. I'm not going to go into detail about washing and products to use as you've been washing her for years but I will talk about a few thing you may not have considered.  When you wash her you need to protect the components under the bonnet, since  she has vents on the top of the bonnet you need to keep water off the brake and clutch reservoirs and I use a  plastic bag of some sort to keep water out of them.

I also place towels in strategic locations to keep water off the engine-obviously you don't want to have a hot engine when you do this. 

You have to keep moisture out of the brake system as it will reduce the effectiveness of your brakes and damage them eventually.  

A couple of large towels placed under the bonnet vents 

Towel in the recess under the fuel filter and on the other side to collect the water that get's down here.   Alway wipe the engine off after washing too.

 When I wash my car I also place towels in the interior to catch any water that comes in around the weather stripping,  a towel laid on the sill usually catches most of it as I have learned never to spray near the hood (top) with high pressure.

Towel on opposite side recess.

      Driving your car, I feel like I'm 'preaching to the choir' on this one since Jennifer has had her E Type 40+ years but I will comment that downshifting to slow down causes wear on the clutch and brakes are a lot cheaper to replace, cornering I always try to anticipate what gear I'll be using coming out of the corner and shift to it but I never use my clutch just for braking to a stop.  One other thing is that keeping the clutch pedal down at stop lights wears out the throwout bearing and thrust bearings and avoid prolonged depressing of the clutch by shifting to neutral and using the brake instead with the clutch out.  One more thing, the engine turns over faster when starting it when the clutch is out and it reduces wear on the starter and throwout bearing.
      Get into the habit of looking under the bonnet before you take a drive, since you will be re-connecting the battery the you disconnected after your previous drive this will be a good opportunity to look at your brake fluid reservoirs, check your oil level and make sure the coolant is halfway up in the reservoir.  Remember 'starting is optional, stopping isn't'.

Throwout bearing that is worn down into the metal

Service intervals (this assumes limited driving-if you drive it more then service intervals will be more frequent):

Engine oil: change every 3000 miles or yearly
Transmission/differential: check at least yearly
Brake fluid: Check before each drive, change every 2-3 years
Clutch fluid: same as brakes
Grease chassis yearly
Clutch free play: check and adjust yearly

Everything else is pretty much standard and if in doubt check your manual.

Cheers,
Lynn