RE: Spotted: TWR Jaguar XJ-S V12

[GranCab]

Maldini35 said:

Ugly, thirsty, heavy, unreliable, cramped and totally impractical.
God I want one.

This Lister variant is taking up far too much of my brainspace at the moment.

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

want ....

[DonkeyApple]

GranCab said:

Maldini35 said:

Ugly, thirsty, heavy, unreliable, cramped and totally impractical.
God I want one.

This Lister variant is taking up far too much of my brainspace at the moment.

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

want ....

I've so often wondered just how much of a disaster running one of these would be.

[Ellieb10]

There's a chap who does a similar commute to me on the m25 in a red six cylinder. Looks a bit tired but the guy deserves max respect for his choice of commuter. My uncle had a red v12 - not registered or insured but when it worked (which was rarely) he used to fang it up and down the motorway in the early hours until it broke again. The engine bay always smelled great (ie a bit oily). Value for good ones has to improve this year surely?

[Krikkit]

DonkeyApple said:

GranCab said:

Maldini35 said:

Ugly, thirsty, heavy, unreliable, cramped and totally impractical.
God I want one.

This Lister variant is taking up far too much of my brainspace at the moment.

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

want ....

I've so often wondered just how much of a disaster running one of these would be.

When it's broken you can just wheel it outside and gawp at it. I love that Lister variant of it, that has a proper manual as well.

[405dogvan]

DonkeyApple said:

GranCab said:

Maldini35 said:

Ugly, thirsty, heavy, unreliable, cramped and totally impractical.
God I want one.

This Lister variant is taking up far too much of my brainspace at the moment.

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

want ....

I've so often wondered just how much of a disaster running one of these would be.

I suspect the biggest issue would be getting over the ridiculous values current owners (mostly dealers) have placed upon them.

There are cars which have been for sale for £30K+ for YEARS - there just isn't the demand for that car and that price.

At £10K they'd be interesting perhaps - but they're nowhere near that.

p.s. Nexen tyres - it's probably running sewing-machine oil...

Edited by 405dogvan on Monday 7th January 14:22

[79Cannonball]

Say what you will, the XJ-S still has one record that's very impressive. It won the last Cannonball in1979 with a time of 32 hours 51 minutes and never skipped a beat. Amazing in my book.

[405dogvan]

79Cannonball said:

Say what you will, the XJ-S still has one record that's very impressive. It won the last Cannonball in1979 with a time of 32 hours 51 minutes and never skipped a beat. Amazing in my book.

and as anyone who's read Alex Roy's book will know - low 30-hours requires a large amount of planning, luck and insanity

and averaging over 80mpg for the whole trip of course - imagine that, OVER 80 for the entire distance NY-LA - there are CITIES in the way - and a lot of Policemen

and girls in Lamborghinis, apparently...

Edited by 405dogvan on Monday 7th January 14:29

[rohrl]

405dogvan said:

and as anyone who's read Alex Roy's book will know - beating 32 hours requires a large amount of planning, luck and insanity

and averaging over 80mpg for the whole trip of course - imagine that, OVER 80 for the entire distance NY-LA - there are CITIES in the way...

80mph? The idea of a wrung-out XJ-S doing 80mpg is a nice one though. I guess about 12-14mpg would be more realistic.

[Seb d]

I only needed to see the green carpet caption to know you'd written this

[rtz62]

Love the Lister, but surely its the only XJS that's potentially more ruinous than..... erm, an XJS?
I know its not my memory playing tricks on me, does anyone else remember that a watch company made a watch that aped the shape of the back window?

[heavyearly76]

I'd love to have a 7.0L Lister LeMans. I hear the bell housing is unique to these cars. Good thing I'm friendly with my local machine shop .

[carinaman]

Didn't we have a 6 litre XJS something or other here a couple of years ago?

I'm struggling to get interested in this green one when I know there are 6 litre ones out there. 'Meh, it's not a 6 litre is it'.

• EDITED ** - I have now sptted LOONNY's link on the first page of the thread.

Edited by carinaman on Monday 7th January 15:17

[Zad]

I was Googling for Lister LeMans pics, and some of the best photos were from a PH thread anyway, so I'll just link that instead!

http://www.pistonheads.com/GASSING/topic.asp?h=0&a...

These are some photos CY88 took:





Quick, crank up the Barry White!

[storminnorman]

Amirhussain said:

Spanna said:

3-Speed Auto!?

Was thinking the same thing.

Yep, I'm out. i'll take the lister instead, in red.

[MycroftWard]

That Lister is awesome.

[Loplop]

It's weird, the Lister's have the sort of kit that you think would fall under the 'acceptable' at the time category, yet that black one looks far younger than it actually is

[theironduke]

I had a 1995 4.0 Celebration (Ice Blue with mushroom cow) and it was possibly the best car i've ever owned. Built as well as my old mans E32 7 that he had and was just such a pretty old tank. Lovely thing to drive and really felt special. I only sold it because I was missing a spanish box (bought a 944 S2)

[NGK210]

Ahh, a wooden dash from the days when the material originated from a tree, not like today's lab-sourced 'wood effect' tat coated in many layers of ultra shiny Ronseal.

[hibbertp]

Don't think this is a genuine TWR XJRS, should have a beige leather TWR embossed Momo steering wheel!
And TWR embossed Into the headrests !

[theironduke]

The Crack Fox said:

Don't these rust like buggery ? If I had garage space I'd love a late XJS.

Late ones dont. My celebration had no rust at all.