Daaaaaaaaaaaaaimler Sovvo Geezerwaft-a-tron. Warning: Bleb content.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

They were like that at 8 years old, so about the time Bucks Fizz were around. You can buy repair panels for the wings (orate araand the headlamps?), new valances and the bonnet should repair poky.

 

AED was renamed the FASD - fuckin' awful stopping device. Manual choke is the only way to go.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I can HAZ purchasisation of a manual choke lash up from the internetz this very morning.

[rml2345]

For a Jag product designed when they were experts at rust traps and built in the 70s, that looks remarkably solid.

[Pete-M]

Best dash evah.

[Junkman]

 

Those alone make me want to have one.

Maybe I'll finally dip a toe into the cold sea of petrol that V12 ownerage requires?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Do it skinflint stylee and get a 4.2, or even uber pov and get a 2.8.

 

Note, however, non povvo price for this one - 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C664562

 

 

[Rocket88]

2.8 lump was dreadful.........................even by B.L standards.............

[NorfolkNWeigh]

2.8 lump was dreadful.........................even by B.L standards.............

I beg to differ, my 2.8 m/o/d got driven in a manner that only an 18 year old brought up on The Sweeney and The Professionals , in his first Jag, could.

It never used excessive oil and didn't pink or hole any pistons, it was faster than the S2 4.2 auto I had at the same time too. I swapped them both for an Audi 100 GL5E, I've always been an idiot.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I had the other 'bad' XK engine, the seventies 3.4. VWJ818S iirc, Squadron* blue Jaguar XJ, went like a train, used oil but a level of marvellousesnous unrivalled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Tally Ho!

[Skizzer]

Seem much worse blebs, not least on my own XJ6. Difference is yours is an S1 so will be worth lots when de-blebbed.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Mechanic discussion.  Consensus: AED less use than a one legged man at an arse kicking contest.  Manual choke going on.  

[Guest Breadvan72]

Off to see the Two Johns in Highbury on Monday for a manual choke lash up.

[Longblackcoat]

Mechanic discussion. Consensus: AED less use than a one legged man at an arse kicking contest. Manual choke going on.

Yep, Spanish device the only way to go for chokeage.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Si,from Barcelona.

[Guest Breadvan72]

ARSE NUGGETS.  

 

I got up early and went to the London car storage place where the Daimler is. It had been blocked in by the resident mechanic's broken down pimpy Range Rover, and he was nowhere to be seen. I do not use his services, as he is not very good with old cars. The storage place's owner was very apologetic, and says that he will give the dude a bollocking but I had to cancel my garage booking and put it back a week. I am not chuffed. 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Turns out the dude had been arrested and was in the slammer.  This is in keeping with Jags, fags, blags, and slags.  

[Guest Breadvan72]

Jailbreak!

 

Escape from storage and off to J and J Motors for fixage.

 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

AED now working,will stay with that for a while.

[RobT]

I've just had that discussion with an old-school mechanic who works near me.  I asked about a manual choke conversion but he said the AED can be fettled to get working, and will shut off once warm anyway.  Did your man say the same?

[Guest Breadvan72]

He did.

[michael1703]

There's an otter switch which once coolant gets up to 45c will turn it off, if you take the spade terminal off at the otter switch you can just run it up to a switch and put the other side to earth.

 

On my mk10 I've just got a bare wire that I Earth on my bonnet release handle and that gets its going and then let go of it

[Vince70]

My father had a Sov back in 1984/5 which he paid the princely sum of £150 or was it £50 on a K plate with a bit of ticket and a few days tax and your lovely car is in far better Condition than his was back then but his old Sov was brown so it hid the rust well.

 

I remember for some reason his was rusting around the petrol filler caps and the headlamps and my 4 year old brother would call it Jimmy as the registration was JMY but he swapped it for an early MK3 cortina as the fuel bills did make it a bit of a expensive car to commute to work in and the remould tyres had all peeled and it ended its life I believe as a parts donor as the 4.2 in his was in tip top condition and a friend of his wanted it for the engine and gearbox as a donor for his knackered 2.8 (but the bodywork on his was mint )

 

His also had the non working petrol tank and the optional hammer in the boot to give the Lucas fuel pump a tap from time to time to get it ticking and running..

 

We as kids really were sad to see it go but I think my dad would of had to take a second mortgage out just for the fuel bills and my youngest brother at the time couldn't work out why you didn't have to stop at the garage every trip to fill the car up when we went out in it..

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

My father had a Sov back in 1984/5 which he paid the princely sum of £150 or was it £50 on a K plate with a bit of ticket and a few days tax and your lovely car is in far better Condition than his was back then but his old Sov was brown so it hid the rust well.

 

I remember for some reason his was rusting around the petrol filler caps and the headlamps and my 4 year old brother would call it Jimmy as the registration was JMY but he swapped it for an early MK3 cortina as the fuel bills did make it a bit of a expensive car to commute to work in and the remould tyres had all peeled and it ended its life I believe as a parts donor as the 4.2 in his was in tip top condition and a friend of his wanted it for the engine and gearbox as a donor for his knackered 2.8 (but the bodywork on his was mint )

 

His also had a non working petrol tank and the optional hammer in the boot to give the Lucas fuel pump a tap from time to time to get it ticking and running..

 

We as kids really were sad to see it go but I think my dad would of had to take a second mortgage out just for the fuel bills and my youngest brother at the time couldn't work out why you didn't have to stop at a garage every trip to fill the car up when we out in it..

 

In 1984 I went with my Dad to Passeys Scrapyard in Newbury for some Mini bits. As a Jag lover I was appalled to see how many Series 1 XJ's were in there. One springs to mind, a white K reg 4.2 Jaguar with red leather. It had been growing moss in someone's drive in Bucklebury but had vanished the week before.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I haz done a boughtage of these.  They are from a later car, but I think they will look OK.



 

[billyboy406v6]

Great boughtaaage, love one of these but I is too scared !

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I haz done a boughtage of these.  They are from a later car, but I think they will look OK.

 

 

 

 

Oh well. 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Personally I much prefer the earlier wheel trims, but it is your car!

 

Do keep the original trims safe though. I believe these cars are going to be worth quite a bit of money in the not too distant future and if you are ever to sell it, the car will be worth more with the original trims.

[MarvinsMom]

agreed, for myself on a series 1 i prefer the look of the hubcaps, but each to their own!

 

if you do pop the alleys on,

 

then keep the steels and hubcaps safe cos when i buy* this fine auto-mo-car then i'll take them with it........

[JayW]

Alleys? They are trims are they not?!

[MarvinsMom]

so they are, an epical fail on my part, so must look closer in future,

 

but i think there was a set of alloys wheels available which look similar?