lesapandre

that does look nice

I'm going to take all the useful pieces off and scrap the rest, most likely. 
The engine, that is.
Phil

That is broken with a capital F!! Be great to see what you do with it. 

Oh common now this is @PhilA we are talking about, I expect him to rebuild the cooked XJ-V8 and shove it into something GM just to show it who's boss

Oh, come on!
You know it makes sense.
It also needs an absolutely filthy lumpy cam, with a hidden but very free flowing exhaust system.

The back seat sucked up half a tin of leather salve. 

Ordered some more to finish the task and also some oil to periodically rub in to keep the leather supple. It was very very dry, especially where it's been in the sun. 
 
Phil

hey my car doesn't even have head gaskets, let alone a water-based cooling system!
it does have the front number plate integrated into its design and would look weird without one in place, so I guess its the Anti-thesis of @SiC's comment at least?  
 

They do, limp mode. I'm guessing you've never owned a Peugeot?

one thing I find interesting about modern cars, is that they have no protection against that
what I mean is take a computer processor for example, for a long time now if you remove the heatsink and try to overheat it, they will throttle themselves back and eventually turn themselves off to stop them cooking themselves
 
so I have to wonder why cars dont have a similar thing, if the temperature goes silly or oil pressure suddenly vanishes for one reason or another, why dont they shut down to protect themselves?
 
EDIT: thinking about it, is it a safety thing? the car keeps running to allow you to (in theory) get to a place of safety?

They sold quite well over here. 
There's a good following and a pretty good support network.

now thats all of the Brave, especially in the US where I cant imagine there are many other dead XJ's you can pillage parts from is there?
 
seeing the AJ-V8 makes yearn for the RHD Lincoln LS they made like 1 or 2 of and no more, what a cock-tease, weirdly 3.9 vs 4.0 in the Jag, go figure....

In fairness that's how it is. A lad I know a bit recently got quoted 500 quid approx to do some work on his rs6 by an audi dealership. He bought the parts at £ 259 and did the work himself and was scathing about what Audi wanted. The extra 250 quid has to pay for the building, the wages, the utilities etc etc. Sometimes I think people think other folk should work for nowt.

Yep, that's about what I would have guessed.
Got to pay for the shiny building, pretty girls, coffee and biscuits somehow.

VW wanted £750 to replace two xenon headlight bulbs on my mates 2014 passat.
No, that's not a mistake. Seven hundred and fifty quid.

Many of you were much closer than I was; I guessed it would be about £600 but it was £1100. Ouch!

Q - I think your ejector-seat needs more work . 

That's the film where Gollum doesn't bother about the ring he lost but goes to open a bar in Goa instead.

Yup - British Leyland are going to get £350M a week too.
I saw it on the side of a (Leyland National) bus.

DAF Kini by Michelotti