What is wrong with me?

[Six-cylinder]

I decided to catch up in the office this weekend but for light relieve had a look at a couple of forums and e bay. I spotted a 1995(N) Jaguar Sovereign 4.0, 12 months MOT good running order 130k buy it now £500 and remembered how I liked my last one.

 

I came to senses and realised that I had nowhere to park it.  So I sent its details round my facebook car friends group. Although to a man they are all car people I was expecting the usual abuse about my poor choice of cars and an end to the nonsense that I needed another car.

 

Instead I had an offer to go 50-50 from a friend with a space in his garage and then a further offer to go thirds so the scene was set.

 

Just as described (yes I know that’s unusual from ebay) we have a nice looking Jaguar with rust spots on 3 wheel arches and a stapled up head lining. It has a small hole in the drivers seal bolster a badly kerbed wheel rim and a miss alined auto lever that will only start in neutral not park. 

 

It starts easily, is smooth and powerful, temp and oil pressure gauges read fine and all the toys work except the air con. It has had recent water pump, brake dics and battery. There was even 54 miles of petrol in it according to the trip computer!

 

So the never-ending story continues how many cars can one man own?

 

[Mr Livered]

These cars are superb value for money if you can find one that runs well and isn't rotten. You seem to have done so! Jolly good show

[brickwall]

I just love these. It actually carries that colour quite well.

 

A man can never own enough Autoshite

[dollywobbler]

That really is a colour of its era! Can't complain at half a bag though. Stonking value.

[Sigmund Fraud]

So the never-ending story continues how many cars can one man own?

 

As many as he can get away with !

 

Excellent purchase, sir. X300s are probably the least painful way there is into Jag ownership !

[garbaldy]

You ask What's wrong with you on this forum are you nuts,

to me that's pretty much normal behaviour although the misses wouldn't agree.

[forddeliveryboy]

I think there's something wrong with you for wondering what's wrong with you. Humans have evolved over tens of thousands of years with nothing other than a hollowed out tree trunk or wooden cart behind a horse for transport, to be confronted with such glorious machinery for so little money. Think what even your grandfather would have given for such an opportunity.

 

We live in a rapidly-ending era where reasonably simple, fast, comfortable, fixable, good-looking indigenous machinery can be had for a week's wages or so. Years of devouring CAR magazine and wondering when are here now. If we don't take up the challenge our recent past will all be on a boat to China, as scrap.

 

Don't ever question yourself again, Mr Six-cylinder. Do you want to just watch these pieces of British automotive history and culture be cubed? Driving one is as important as learning all the names of the Kings and Queens of Scotland, Wales and England. Think of the animals who laid down their lives so your posteriors and noses could be molly-coddled in this Brown's Lane beauty.

 

Just remember to pop the airbags so you can have a more traditional wheel, a traditional English glovebox behind a wooden door and that Real Man feeling that there is nothing between you and the steering column if you damage the car.

 

A query about these car-sharing schemes. I trust you don't all ride in it together?

[stuboy]

i love it

[Faker]

Bargain. 5 ton wouldn't even put a set of tyres on that barge. Well played.

[Pete-M]

X300s are ace. The R is still probably the most brilliant of all the cars I've ever owned. The car that never fails to bring a grin.

I have huge urges for an alloy body XJR in the near future.

[Six-cylinder]

My doubt as to whether I should buy it stems from the sheer number of cars I have but £500 for such a lovely car is irresistible and once the parking was sorted with the joint ownership I had to go for it.

 

 This is not my 1^st X300 I had another one Dec 2007 – July 2009 a Sovereign 4.0.

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I've never had a jaguar but they are so worthless that its very difficult to resist sometimes. I'd love to try one for a bit.

[Junkman]

I was thinking long and hard and the only thing I can find wrong if I dig deep enough is that you didn't go for a V12 cat. But I'm really nitpicking here, honestly.

[Six-cylinder]

I was thinking long and hard and the only thing I can find wrong if I dig deep enough is that you didn't go for a V12 cat. But I'm really nitpicking here, honestly.

Don’t, my wife keeps on she would like a Daimler Sovereign V12 series I tax free car, I have never owned a V12, Heart says yes Head says no!

 

We have had a 1972 Daimler Sovereign 4.2 Series I and a 1975 Series 2 XJ6C and now we do have a Jaguar MK10 4.2 but that’s a non running project.

[ShiteRider]

Jags are all kinds of awesome. I had a solent blue H-reg XJ40 when i was nineteen (sans insurance like a dumb cunt) swapped it for a rotten capri ( like an even dumber cunt).

Still the best riding car i've ever had.

[fordperv]

there is nothing wrong with you, for £500 that lovely barge of smoothness cant be missed

 

personally i would've asked what was wrong with you if you hadn't of purchased it

[forddeliveryboy]

Jag V12 are utterly lovverly. Cancel the order for your Audi V20 and buy a V12 from Brown's Lane. Far more everything, and buy a house with the leftover cash. The tenants will more than cover the bills.

[brickwall]

My dad had a Double-Six in the late 70s when a fully expensed company car meant just that. Rear wheel arches weren't as bad a the Jag, but I'm splitting hairs really. A Jag must be on the bucket list as it cool to say a sentence where  the Jag is possessive.

[Rocket88]

Don’t, my wife keeps on she would like a Daimler Sovereign V12 series I tax free car, I have never owned a V12, Heart says yes Head says no!

 

 

 

 

 

9 mpg..................

[garethj]

We live in a rapidly-ending era where reasonably simple, fast, comfortable, fixable, good-looking indigenous machinery can be had for a week's wages or so.

 In an effort to get my eldest to do some homework, we give him pocket money if he works without moaning too much.  He was looking over my shoulder while I was browsing the cars on ebay and we saw an XJ-S V12, I told him that I had one years ago, how wonderfully quiet it was, how it accelerated from 30mph to 130mph in a smooth, continuous surge and how comfortable the leather seats were.

 

The one on the 'bay was £500 and he said "so if I save all my pocket money for a year, I could buy one?"

 

He's only 11, but I don't think we need a DNA test to establish who the father is

[purplebargeken]

 

 

The one on the 'bay was £500 and he said "so if I save all my pocket money for a year, I could buy one?"

He is to be encouraged in any and every way possible. What a grand lad. 

[Six-cylinder]

I have always liked Jaguars, maybe because when I was a teenager my dad had a 1960 MKII 3.4 Auto in maroon and then changed it for a 1965 S-Type 3.8 Auto in white with alloy wheels and whip aerial. The S-Type was still in the family now with my mother when I came of driving age and once in a blue moon I got to borrow it.

 

Some years ago I got to borrow this Jaguar 420G and drive it 500 miles to Wales and back, cruising gently we managed 19 mpg.