Old Jags
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Griff
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zoltan69 said:
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.
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.
GarfieldLeChat
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Roadkill said:Oh, and my nomination for the sexiest-looking car ever made:
nope this was the sexist jag ever built
D type specials followed closely by the
Ctype then
the Dtype...
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.
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
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.
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
D type specials followed closely by the
Ctype then
the Dtype...
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
GarfieldLeChat
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zoltan69 said:
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...
GarfieldLeChat
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though the never produced xj13 looked good if a little long
GarfieldLeChat
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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...Roadkill said:
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.
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
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Griff said: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?
the wheels are wrong, they sit inside the car it's wrong
Griff
Feeding the foxes
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
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.
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.
If you want a real budget Jag it's got to be the wonderfully seedy XJ40
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.
If you want a real budget Jag it's got to be the wonderfully seedy XJ40
Chow Yun-Fat
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Or the last good looking XJ saloon, the x300:
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.
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.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
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 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.
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
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.discokermit
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i'm getting one as well in the next couple of weeks. jags are ace.
discokermit
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i was thinking about driving gloves today. i'm turning into alan partridge.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The woven-backed sort beloved of men with Graham Hill moustaches?
discokermit
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i am also thinking of growing a graham hill moustache! or at least drawing one one.
discokermit
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had a look at this one the other day,
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!
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!
discokermit
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oooh...
what engine?
what engine?
discokermit
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i'm going to look at this one next week,
discokermit
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i fancy this one but it's a bit of a trek to get to,
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