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moose said:
I'd love one of those. I'd fear for the bonnet coming out of side roads, though.
I thought that pic was of my parents for a moment there :eek:

My dad would agree with Chz

They're works of art, and like most art they work best standing still.
:D
 
zoltan69 said:
V12 ?

Youa re either a masochist or a multi mliionare!

Looks good on paper/ drive great when new/ wouldnt touch them second hand.

As I mentioned earlier, did look at a 5.3C years ago, but it was purely going to be a weekend car. Petrol was a fair bit cheaper than now though. :eek:

Even when I bought the XJS a V12 a never an option, took the more economical 3.6 which did about 28 mpg on a long run. :)
 
Roadkill said:
Oh, and my nomination for the sexiest-looking car ever made:

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nope this was the sexist jag ever built

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D type specials followed closely by the

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Ctype then

the Dtype...

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the e type has allways had too narrow a track and to many problems... it's a heap of car... driven one twice and would never get in one again if you paid me...
 
Oh yes, the 3.6/5.3 fuel was always going to be a seciondary issue - if you wanted the car, you would find the money for fuel

The utter utter futility of AA membership when you were running a V12 is scarely -short of getting you home, thats about all you could do. Every time you went in a v12 you were petrified it was going to blow - not mechanically, but you drove with one eye on the Oil pressure & the Water temp - and deviation from the norm means several hundred £ minimum, be it a new rad or a hose blowing somewhere. You become attuned to the various hisses and pops you may hear that point to a pinprick in a hose ( not too abd, assuming you can get home without loosingt too much water and access the hose to replace it ) or a rad core going ( a hight likelyhood of head gaskets being needed - £1000 minimum assuming you can find a specialist who wants to take it on ).

too scarey for me.:eek:
go for a sad old Mk10 sled with the straight 6 engione, if worst comes along, you can cram a later Straight 6 in and gt it going again, much to the chagrin of the purists
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
nope this was the sexist jag ever built

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D type specials followed closely by the

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Ctype then

the Dtype...

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the e type has allways had too narrow a track and to many problems... it's a heap of car... driven one twice and would never get in one again if you paid me...

I used to know a fellow in Brockley SE4 who had an inch perfectt C type replica. Met hiom one when I had my 911 3.2 & we checked each other wheels out - it was Ali bodied ( exact copy of the original structure ) and had a period engine rebiult to as new standard- and it looked "new*. Utterly fantastic looking machine that only got out of the garage on nice days
 
zoltan69 said:
I used to know a fellow in Brockley SE4 who had an inch perfectt C type replica. Met hiom one when I had my 911 3.2 & we checked each other wheels out - it was Ali bodied ( exact copy of the original structure ) and had a period engine rebiult to as new standard- and it looked "new*. Utterly fantastic looking machine that only got out of the garage on nice days

Heritage & Proteus are the two firms who make them from memory. :)

They are lovely. :)
 
zoltan69 said:
I used to know a fellow in Brockley SE4 who had an inch perfectt C type replica. Met hiom one when I had my 911 3.2 & we checked each other wheels out - it was Ali bodied ( exact copy of the original structure ) and had a period engine rebiult to as new standard- and it looked "new*. Utterly fantastic looking machine that only got out of the garage on nice days

I love the c type i really do it's an incredable machine, however given the choice a cooper D or Coventry D or if poss a Lister D would be my hands in choice...

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GarfieldLeChat said:
the e type has allways had too narrow a track and to many problems... it's a heap of car... driven one twice and would never get in one again if you paid me...

Can well believe it's not everything that its looks promise but it really is gorgeous, and it's got *that* image.

I had let the D-type slip my mind when I posted that though. It's beautiful.
 
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Surprised nobody's mentioned the S-Type yet. Another lovely '60s Jag which you hardly see (even at classic car events) these days.
 
Roadkill said:
Can well believe it's not everything that its looks promise but it really is gorgeous, and it's got *that* image.

I had let the D-type slip my mind when I posted that though. It's beautiful.
to my mind the e type (the road legal version of the D) was an abhorrence, a bastardiseation of the beauty of the d into a more productiony verison, when the change came about for the amreican market too.. sorry but yuk...
 
The beast thing about the race type jags that you cant capture wthiout seeing them is the fact that the flowing femimine, organic curves are metal - proper beaten and dolly shaped metal.

when you run your hands over the truncated plastic brutalism of a TVR, you realsie how cheap, nasty and flimsy they actually are when compared to the sculptured lines of a track jag.
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
to my mind the e type (the road legal version of the D) was an abhorrence, a bastardiseation of the beauty of the d into a more productiony verison, when the change came about for the amreican market too.. sorry but yuk...

I can understand what you're saying about the overweight V12s and the ghastly 2+2s, but a 3.8 Series 1 Coupe or Roadster? :confused:
 
BTW, I much prefer the Daimler version of the jag with its V8 lump - used to be very much cheaoper to buy secondhand as well:D

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zoltan69 said:
BTW, I much prefer the Daimler version of the jag with its V8 lump - used to be very much cheaoper to buy secondhand as well:D

That 2.5 V8 does sound lovely, and yes they are far cheaper, and I'd have one over a 2.4 MkII. But the Daimler 'golf-club' image...


Give me a 3.8 Jag with wire wheels any day. :D
 
My Dad had a couple of XJSs when I was a lad and I loved em. He also had a Daimler Double Six saloon which was great.

Then I got to drive my boss' from Bristol to Avonmouth in the wet a few years back and all my illusions were shattered, it was ridiculously cramped for someone my size, wallowy, massively tail happy, which is not always a bad thing but with no feedback from the steering it's not too clever.

Nice looking car though, I think I first started loving them 'cause of the Return of the Saint with Ian Ogilvy. :cool:

If you want a real budget Jag it's got to be the wonderfully seedy XJ40

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Or the last good looking XJ saloon, the x300:

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The XJC pillarless is my favourite Jag ever, especially with a vinyl roof. But they were made 74-77 as I recall... not the best time for UK car production. Not a daily driver really. Unlike an x300 or even perhaps an XJ40.
 
Got a call from a mate on Friday evening who told me his grandfather had just died and had left him a 1991 Sovereign, and he wondered what to do.

It was in a garage getting a service/MoT and had an offer of £1000 on it. He was wondering whether to take the offer which he thought was a bit insulting or to try and sell it privately. Well I told him to have it for a while, enjoy it for a while and see how he feels after a couple of months.

He turned up in it last night and it was a nice looking car (quite a rarity these days for a 15 year old Jag), very smart in silver with tan leather and wheels in tip-top condition.

He was quite shocked by the fuel consumption driving up the motorway:D and being an accountant, I can't see him keeping it for long, plus he was a bit scared by the kick-down, as he's used to driving a 10 year old Golf diesel.
 
Sorry to bring back a thread from the dead, but tomorrow could well mean XJS ownership again after all these years. :cool:
 
had a look at this one the other day,

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wasn't very good. a bit tatty (as you can see from the pic, he couldn't get the bonnet to shut properly, which made me think it had been in a bump) and i could smell a petrol leak somewhere near the back end (possibly petrol tank). excellent to drive though.

the search continues!
 
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This is the same colour and year as mine. Paid £5500 for it, which judging by the condition and history and looking at others seems to be about £1800 cheaper than others on sale, and is on par with a car from Clarkes. I'd forgotten how big they actually are. :D
 
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