RE: Broadspeed XJ12: You Know You Want To
Discussion
TerryThomas said:
An amazing car. I'd love to recreate a road going version.
These are your people.....http://milesclassic.co.uk/
sjc said:
TerryThomas said:
An amazing car. I'd love to recreate a road going version.
These are your people.....http://milesclassic.co.uk/
PATTERNPART said:
The road cars had vinyl roofs didn't they? I heard this was because the roofs were lumpy - maybe they were a factory lash-up from a tool adapted from the full size saloon roof. This one has a few ripples in it. Perhaps just from the stresses and strains of cornering on two wheels and hitting kerbs. The racing Capris of the era were famously rippled.
My first ever girlfriend at school, back in 77/78 seemed all the more attractive for her dad having an XJ 5.3C in silver. And mum had a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.. but I digress.Always remember him coming back from the local Jag dealership quite perturbed, as, straight from the horses mouth, he was told that the black vinyl roof was to hide the poor finish of the panel joint between the roof and rear 1/4.
Still, it was an epic car.
I remember footage of the Jags racing (in Germany?), setting a blistering pace, which of course they had to do in order to build a sufficient lead to account for the (planned) pit stops to refuel. Which was going to be often.
I had a couple of posters of the racing Jags on my bedroom wall (neatly bracketing a poster of Olver Newtron Bomb, dressed in black leather and looking backwards at me, yes me, over her shoulder....) The poster to the right of ONJ was a photo taken at the moment one of its wheels came adrift at high speed, the one to the left, I'm sure, showed the Jag in mid-air over a high speed bump.
Epic.
Not only the racing Jag, but also first girlfriends dads road car. And Olivia Newton John. But thinking back, not the first girlfriend...
As an aside, why don't advertising mediums like ClassicandSportscar, and even our dear, beloved Pistonheads, etc, stop advertisers putting P.O.A?
How do you prove you are genuinely interested in, and can afford a particular car, if you don't know it's price.
How do they judge your financial fluidity? By you emailing them a copy of your bank account, only for them to stroke their beards and think 'hmmmm, was going to ask £100k but this twerp has £150k availability, methinks we will up the P.O.A price...'
How do you prove you are genuinely interested in, and can afford a particular car, if you don't know it's price.
How do they judge your financial fluidity? By you emailing them a copy of your bank account, only for them to stroke their beards and think 'hmmmm, was going to ask £100k but this twerp has £150k availability, methinks we will up the P.O.A price...'
rtz62 said:
As an aside, why don't advertising mediums like ClassicandSportscar, and even our dear, beloved Pistonheads, etc, stop advertisers putting P.O.A?
How do you prove you are genuinely interested in, and can afford a particular car, if you don't know it's price.
How do they judge your financial fluidity? By you emailing them a copy of your bank account, only for them to stroke their beards and think 'hmmmm, was going to ask £100k but this twerp has £150k availability, methinks we will up the P.O.A price...'
If you were genuinely interested, you would pick up the phone and have a chat with the nice people selling it.How do you prove you are genuinely interested in, and can afford a particular car, if you don't know it's price.
How do they judge your financial fluidity? By you emailing them a copy of your bank account, only for them to stroke their beards and think 'hmmmm, was going to ask £100k but this twerp has £150k availability, methinks we will up the P.O.A price...'
The subject of price would come up, Im sure.
WANT, very very much, such a cool race car, for me it doesn't matter about the race heritage, you can make your own history with it, which would inevitably be me exiting this world in a sideways Broadspeed based fireball with a massive grin! Anyone who doesn't like a V12 manual Jaguar coupe race car with quad side exiting exhausts should probably not be here on PH IMHO!
Adz The Rat said:
rtz62 said:
As an aside, why don't advertising mediums like ClassicandSportscar, and even our dear, beloved Pistonheads, etc, stop advertisers putting P.O.A?
How do you prove you are genuinely interested in, and can afford a particular car, if you don't know it's price.
How do they judge your financial fluidity? By you emailing them a copy of your bank account, only for them to stroke their beards and think 'hmmmm, was going to ask £100k but this twerp has £150k availability, methinks we will up the P.O.A price...'
If you were genuinely interested, you would pick up the phone and have a chat with the nice people selling it.How do you prove you are genuinely interested in, and can afford a particular car, if you don't know it's price.
How do they judge your financial fluidity? By you emailing them a copy of your bank account, only for them to stroke their beards and think 'hmmmm, was going to ask £100k but this twerp has £150k availability, methinks we will up the P.O.A price...'
The subject of price would come up, Im sure.
I haven't a clue what it's worth, nor would most people, so a POA doesn't give me an inkling as to whether my inheritance will stretch that far or not. Plus, as I said, how do they check on your ability to fund the purchase if there's no parameter on pricing. And yet again, they can make the price as fluid as they like, hence why I won't ever respond to a P.O.A advert.
Probably worthy of a thread of its own, 'Should P.O.A adverts be banned forthwith, and if so, why?'...
Operation Rolling Thunder. It is reckoned by some that if Leyland hadn't pulled the plug on the programme, the Cats might have started to return better results in 1978. BMW were so desperate for decent competition that they got Alpina to lend a hand with sorting out the oil starvation problems that were lunching the engines. Only 2 cars built, apparently.
http://www.racingsportscars.com/type/Jaguar/XJ12C....
http://www.racingsportscars.com/type/Jaguar/XJ12C....
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