Skizzer's XJ-S

[Skizzer]

Tuesday has dawned, filled with promise behind the grey clouds. I am off to deepest Cardigan, in Little England Beyond Wales, to collect this:

 

 

I've been moaning and grumbling about the price of these having gone silly this year, and watching another bucket list car soar skywards out of budget. As we've discussed, all the tweed cap classic magazine journalists have been revisiting them for the 40th anniversary and deciding they're not hideous and crap after all (which some of us knew all along). Meanwhile E-Types are out of reach of anyone sane, so values of these and XJCs are rising fast to fill the gap. Also Breadvan72 has got one, and his Polish countess friend, so everyone wants one. The price of the 2-door Jag wafting experience is zooming upwards.

 

Except this one. I'm getting change from £2k, and from the ad and the phone conversations it sounds like a good car from a decent seller.

 

Wish me luck

[the judge]

Yes!!! Go go go!!!

[holbeck]

Wish me luck 

Luck

[fotorabia]

Your a saint..heres some inspiration from Fife.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

A lovely looking XJ-S HE. Good luck!

[Hertz]

Cool, you won't need luck I'm sure you will be fine*. Well bought must have missed this latest acquisition.

[Twiggy]

Good luck !

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

It's 25 years since I sold my last one. Great cars (when fully functioning)  but I wouldn't do it again.

[Jim Bell]

gr8 reg for Yotkshire lad.

 

Looks class! Exciting Fred.

[EssDeeWon]

I love old cars like this because they were purposely designed to be different and stand alone. Proper cars designed by proper car people.

 

Not quite the samey same same dross which is served up nowadays.

 

I have followed an XF and thought it was a Mondeo, and vice versa.

[Bear]

XJ-S: Now Trending on Autoshite.

[phil_lihp]

Godspeed sir.  Godspeed.

 

Between you, RichardK, Breadvan72 and xtriple there's some fine and proud British machinery being purchased on this forum lately, it's a beautiful thing.  Sod the fuel consumption and God Save the Queen etc.

[HMC]

Superb! Im assuming being on a 'Y' means this can only be a v12 rather that a 3.6?

Looks nicely original on the starfish alloys *Like*

[Richard]

It is a V12. I hope this will be making an appearance at SF16.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

V12 - flat bonnet, 3.6 - POWAAAH bulge. They came out on the A plate.

[Bear]

V12 - flat bonnet, 3.6 - POWAAAH bulge. They came out on the A plate.

 

Except on facelift, the V12 got the lumpy bonnet too. The only element of the facelift I'm not so fond of.

[RobT]

Looks nicely original on the starfish alloys *Like*

 

So that's what they're called.  Some of the best wheels EVAR.

 

Good luck Mr Skizz, looks a class old thing.

[hairnet]

200 quid in juice from cardigan to mumbles then

[xtriple]

Blimey you kept that quiet! Looks really nice, I hope it is. Scary buying expensive chod though isn't it: the potential for HUGE financial meltdown an ever present danger.

 

I do love them (XJ-Ss) and the H.E. is a great car with a fabulous engine but working on them is a bloody nightmare. It will be fun comparing notes on our respective difficulties

[andy18s]

I'd be scared to run 1 of these, and I have a P38.........

Good luck 😉

[Bren]

Top bombing.

 

I would love a series 1 - I like the simpler styling and the kent wheels.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I love the Series 1 for the styling and they're faster too. I also love the HE though, and they're better inside with the veneered dash. I prefer the pre-facelift cars for style, though I'd like to own any of them!

[Mr A Lawrence]

I love old cars like this because they were purposely designed to be different and stand alone. Proper cars designed by proper car people.

 

Not quite the samey same same dross which is served up nowadays.

 

I have followed an XF and thought it was a Mondeo, and vice versa.

I went to look at an XF a few weeks ago for summat to do as I'd probably move upto one of those as my next jag.

 

It was such a let down!!

 

Cover the growler in the steering wheel and it could've been an Audi or a ford.

 

Shite.

 

Liking the XJ-S though. Proper chest wig drivers car!!

[wuvvum]

As a former XJ-S V12 owner, I can say that I'm well jel.  Except of the fuel consumption.

[vulgalour]

teehee, growler.

[Bear]

teehee, growler.

 

I still can't refer to the absent badge on my car as such without sniggering.

 

What's more fun is that in America - particularly in hipster-central Portland - craft beer is sold in growlers. "Take home a growler today" "Refill your growler" and all sorts of other funnier ones I can't remember. Yet they genuine have NO IDEA why I found it so funny.

[Junkman]

It's not going to be yet another boring collection thread that goes well, is it?

[Aston Martin]

It's not going to be yet another boring collection thread that goes well, is it?

 

 

He has 12 cylinders and British engineering, it'll be fine.

[RobT]

As a former XJ-S V12 owner, I can say that I'm well jel.  Except of the fuel consumption.

 

When I collected the Sierra I remember you taking me for a run in yours Wuv, went like a rocket and wasn't even running on all cylinders IIRC. 

[tooSavvy]

Yet they genuine have NO IDEA why I found it so funny.

TreddDrifts

 

SWMBO worked in London, clothes retail.

 

Yank woman comes out of changing room (shop full) "Hey honey, does my FANNY look big to you?".

 

I yank yrr chains NOT

 

 

TS