RE: SOTW: Jaguar XJR (X300)

[E30M3SE]

Great shed.

[sim16v]

TEKNOPUG said:

There is an identical one just down the road from me. Except that it's the super rare Spanish box. Rot in the front and rear arches, as you'd expect.

Want!


This is my shed. It was £1k

[theironduke]

crofty1984 said:

dbdb said:

gck303 said:

gabbo said:

Nice shed but........saw one of these last night

and isnt it much cooler?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...

No.

Agreed. No.

I really want to love the 166 but those front lights are just not pretty at all. The rest of the car is spot on....the front just ruins it I'd have a V6 156 instead.

[P4ROT]

Still remember how quick this felt back in the day when my dad had one....Awesome supercharger whine as well

[radlet6]

Utterpiffle said:

Krikkit said:

The X300's were blown straight 6, the X308's were V8 super.

Won't be too long until a 308 creeps down into this territory.

It already has!

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=bu...

Edited by Utterpiffle on Friday 11th May 14:42

Sorry but this is the one for me £350 extra or not. Now where's the piggy bank?

[M666 EVO]

theironduke said:

Geoffcapes said:

120k. Just run in isn't it?

I'd love one!

It's the Daddy of big 'Old School' bruiser cruisers.

Forget your Mercs and BM's. A Jaaaaaaggggg is the only way to go!

WANT!

I wish I could get cheapo insurance on one My TVR is about 200 quid but one of these just cant be done for less than 800 So i'm going down the Merc route.....560 SEC, 5.6 V8, 300 horses and 340 odd ft/lb torque....ok not AS rapid as the jag but still brisk! AND insurable for less than 140 quid! fully comp!

Try a modern classic policy, limited mileage etc. I pay £300 FC and I live in London. Footman James or Adrian Flux.

[vsonix]

now THAT's a SOTW

[angusc43]

sim16v said:

TEKNOPUG said:

There is an identical one just down the road from me. Except that it's the super rare Spanish box. Rot in the front and rear arches, as you'd expect.

Want!


This is my shed. It was £1k

Awesome. I test drove one in 2003. It was flashing the traction light as it shifted in to third. I loved it. More accomplished overall that the C43 I eventually went for at the time (budget couldn't stretch, unfortunately)

[thecarspynet]

There is one local to me finished that aquamarine colour and it looks unmarked - very tempted to knock and leave my number for when (if) they sell the stunner. We have sold loads of XJR V8's over the years and good (fast) car that it is there is something mean and moody about the early straight six version. There won't be many comparable cars for less than a grand that offer so much for so little money!

[Jw Vw]

Top SOTW. Great bargain barge.

[arfur]

sim16v said:

Want!


This is my shed. It was £1k

And you are selling it for just 15 Euros ! wow

[ItsaTVR]

will261058 said:

es some Alfas look nice, but not all, and that one is as ugly as a box of frogs!

[/Stephen Frye] "Well, not all frogs are ugly, Depends on the box you're looking in, really..."
[/Stephen Frye]

[MadDog1962]

Fuel cost will be too much for use as a daily driver, and muti-storey car park ramps may also present a challenge at times. However, this is a lot of satisfying waft factor for a grand. Insurance may also present an issue for many people, all of which explain why it's so cheap.

Nice though :-)

[MadDog1962]

CliveM said:

It must be sickening to be sat in another country that doesn't have used cars as cheap as this.
Shedding doesn't come better.

Yes it is. I'm moving soon.

[johnpeat]

fozluvscars said:

basically then, 'shedding' requires bigger balls

and provides a car with seats capacious enough to avoid cramping those balls

[Spitbarnatt]

Fantastic shed!

My X308 XJR was just outside of shed teritory at £1700. Cat C, bodywork terrible (looks ok from a distance or when passing at warp speed), 67k but no history. I took a chance on it, put a new MOT on it and have run it for 6 months and about 2000 miles without fault. So far only spend is £300 on new rear tyres (and a lot more on petrol) haven't even washed it since I got it but love it to bits. Just hope I have time soon to make some new pulleys and speed the supercharger up.

As for insurance try Peter Best, £260 on a 3000mile limit, I'll have to ring them soon to up it!

[AndyLeysh]

scottiedog said:

LOVE IT!!!

Where I am, that car would be three or four times the price, damn the UK and there cheap motoring (petrol prices excluded)! The I6 in these are amazing, most reliable motor Jaguar ever produced....why did it go so wrong with the early X308's?

As for the airbag light....would it not just make sense to get behind the cluster, snip the wires (or cut the tracks on the PCB) and take a feed from the ABS light? That way, its on with a turn of the key and off when your started?? Easy fix! Not sure why a car should fail its MOT if the airbag light is on, what would be the big deal that would make it un-roadworthy?

Aaah, like the way you think, where's the soldering iron...

Re your comment on the car prices in the UK, just came back after 16 years in Africa and I'm seeing prestige cars for beer money now that were top of the tree for performance and price when I left..

Shame so many great cars go to the scrappy before their time due to the dreaded annual MOT...

Interestingly the only time a car needs to be MOT'ed in South Africa, (a 'Roadworthy' as it's called), is when it changes hands, so cars stay on the (unsalted) road much longer AND hold their value...

Check out these beauties @ 13 Rand to the Pound:

http://johannesburg.gumtree.co.za/c-Cars-Vehicles-...

http://capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za/c-Cars-V...

[Rollcage]

Hmmmmm

<Checks possibilities of exporting cars to SA>

[gck303]

radlet6 said:

Utterpiffle said:

Krikkit said:

The X300's were blown straight 6, the X308's were V8 super.

Won't be too long until a 308 creeps down into this territory.

It already has!

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=bu...

Edited by Utterpiffle on Friday 11th May 14:42

Sorry but this is the one for me £350 extra or not. Now where's the piggy bank?

Nah, it is a LWB. Too large and the lines aren't as nice as the SWB. I am making the assumption that you won't be sitting in the back?

A SWB Super V8, not that would be a thing to dig deep for.

[AndyLeysh]

Rollcage said:

Hmmmmm

<Checks possibilities of exporting cars to SA>

It's a fg nightmare...