Withnail & I spec ropey Jag Home- moar PIcs p2

[HMC]

Students of ropey looking old jags will recall the distressed mk2 used in the film Withnail & I. That, must be the inspiration (im struggling to find a reason) for buying this......

Which is primered on one side and has a bright red front wing on 'tuther. Said to be a great driver and mechanically in fine fettle, it's a 3.2 sov. Due to collect this weekend (WCPGW)

[Supernaut]

DO NOT PAINT.

[RobT]

Local to you too, so not far to get towed if it does break.  Well bought!

[320touring]

Good effort!

[Six-cylinder]

I have had too X300s and they were both great.

 

The only problem I had with both of my X300s was having to have suspension rubbers replaced.

[taxi paul]

Just tell people you haven't decided on a colour yet. Like the telly makeover shows . If its good enough for Llewellyn Bowen.

[Skizzer]

Oh well done sir.  Very well done.

 

Me, I'd tell people it's a stealth Jag coated with anti-radar nano-particles.  In fact, maybe it is?

[Six-cylinder]

You could always go for the tester pot look!

[trigger]

As a Rover owner i can only applause the purchase of a Jaguar. 

[dome]

Jags are for winners. Good job

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

Scrubbers!!!

[DVee8]

You could tell people it's a test mule fo ran as yet top secret new jag sports saloon,mpv,coupe,4x4 soft top.

[HillmanImp]

As prices for these are rock bottom at the mo, I am curious as to how much this cost? Nice examples only seem to go for a few hundred pounds so a cosmetically challenged one should have been a steal.

[cort1977]

Scrubbers!!!

Dammit I came in here just to post that!   Loved that film as a teenager, so quotable. 

 

Jag is full of win, not painting it would be quite amusing I think.

[dieselassist]

Students of ropey looking old jags will recall the distressed mk2 used in the film Withnail & I. That, must be the inspiration

 

Jaysus, Id check if the drivers side wiper been 'disabled' for 'maximum Withnail n I 'authenticity points'..

[Tayne]

And it has Jimi Hendrix on the stereo?

 

Needs a big dent in the driver's side though.

[billyboy406v6]

What a winner. If you leave the paint alone it is unique, where as a £ 1,000 respray make it just another JAAAAAG ?

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Superb. A Jag doesn't have to be shiny.

[2MB]

It's a lot older now than the Withnail & I one was when the film was set, and in much better condition, so it's doing pretty well.

[Partridge]

As prices for these are rock bottom at the mo, I am curious as to how much this cost? Nice examples only seem to go for a few hundred pounds so a cosmetically challenged one should have been a steal.

Mine looks amazing from ten paces and has a smack in the boot. It needs a wheel bearing (they all do that) and a steering rack and cost me £480. The work will cost many times over that, but they'd be nothing stopping me from running it for a year and scrapping it, then doing it all over again. But I won't.

 

This must be what it was like in the '80s when you could buy a scruffy MKII for 150 quid! If I had a large lock up, I could do very well by hoovering up all the non MoT'd ones for pennies and leaving them parked up for another 20 years...

[HMC]

Lets have a go at a live thread.....

9am Cross country service from Plymouth to Ropey old jag ( calling at broken dreams parkway and hard shoulder central, mind the gap please)

Sat nav and obsolete car mag reading material to hand

If anyone can flip the pictures the right way, thanks in advance!

[Jim Bell]

You jump in front of my car when you,

you know all the time that

Ninety miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive

You tell me it's alright, you don't mind a little pain

You say you just want me to take you for a ride.

 

SCRUBBERS!!!!

 

Im making time.

 

GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN!!!!

[phil_lihp]

That is absolutely horrible.  Well done!  Cosmetics aside, if it's mechanically and electrically OK, you're probably not going to go too far wrong.  A couple of tins of Rustoleum in a moderately appropriate shade and you're set for many profits.

 

Suddenly the shambolic XJ40 looks so much better, Nyphur will be pleased.

[Jim Bell]

I am starting to get this "Do Not Paint" malarky but that red door mirror really fecks with my OCD!

 

 

Hes right. It needs a green one on the other side to ballance it out.

[HMC]

Crossing the Tamar on the Brunel rail bridge.....

En route to collect my very own piece of rusting british ironmongery.

[HMC]

Money shot-

Bonus feature- Withnail and I makeshift drink holder where a brick of and old car phone used to sit....

Short blast down the A30 later and home!

[BorniteIdentity]

Harlequin Edition.

 

I've always been of the belief that you can't see what a car looks like when you're driving it.  Therefore I'd focus all attention on feeding the leather (if applicable) and polishing the dash.  Fuck the rest of it!

[forddeliveryboy]

 

Hadn't heard about the comet over South Devon/Cornwall - bloody bright! Or is it one of those meteor things the Ruskies had last winter but one? Obviously a good omen, you "followed the star".

[scaryoldcortina]

It's a lot older now than the Withnail & I one was when the film was set, and in much better condition, so it's doing pretty well.

It's not far off the age of the withnail jag when the film was made!

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Superb. Can you see the mismatched wings from the driving seat? - You can see the flute down the top of the wings on an XJ40  from inside the car - the X300's wings are rounder and I can't remember whether you can see them.