My new toy... Jag content inside

[320touring]

Got a bit of time to play on this today- and got the brakes sorted- so its edging closer to being used

full details in the blog below!

https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2015/01/10/stopp...

[jimmymidnight]

Love it! I had a 2.9 Sov a few years ago and always wanted the 4.0, I ended up going the wrong way into a tree and I never properly got over it. I loved that car!

[Pothole]

OP, I'm liking your word invention; " shenanigry " in particular

[320touring]

I appear to have had a knock on affect on my Brother..

Read all about his big barge Daimler collection here:

https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/355/

[320touring]

jimmymidnight said:

Love it! I had a 2.9 Sov a few years ago and always wanted the 4.0, I ended up going the wrong way into a tree and I never properly got over it. I loved that car!

That is a lovely looking old bus

They are a lot of fun!

[320touring]

Pothole said:

OP, I'm liking your word invention; " shenanigry " in particular

Thanks- sometimes it is a bit difficult to stick to actual words to describe the situations we find ourselves in..

[Pothole]

320touring said:

Pothole said:

OP, I'm liking your word invention; " shenanigry " in particular

Thanks- sometimes it is a bit difficult to stick to actual words to describe the situations we find ourselves in..

I agree, I recently invented earbrows (sideburns)

[y2blade]

I'm liking this, all the best with it.

Following with interest

[Steve_W]

Nice car OP. Also like your blog - had to LOL at the phrase "we were bored and had a hacksaw" re the Polo filter.

[Dalto123]

I have a hankering for one of these, badly, but the potentially high running costs are off sadly off putting!

However, my favourite quote from the blog had to be:

Something else was an approximation- the brakes were notable by their absence. This is obviously not an issue on an 1800kg 4.0l car. Not at all.

[jimmymidnight]

Out of the 15 or so cars i've had in my limited years of driving, only 2 properly stick in my mind as the ones that got away. Both of them were an absolute nightmare to own from start to finish, and one of them was my Jag Sovereign. I remember having to fork out £800 for the gold lined idle valve - I only paid £500 for the car 2 weeks before! I loved mine like it was my first born.

It had such presence and even though it was slower than a mini bus full of Nunns, it sounded great.

Looking forward to seeing how you get on with yours mate.

[320touring]

Pothole said:

320touring said:

Pothole said:

OP, I'm liking your word invention; " shenanigry " in particular

Thanks- sometimes it is a bit difficult to stick to actual words to describe the situations we find ourselves in..

I agree, I recently invented earbrows (sideburns)

I have them in stock

Sizing up a pipe and flat cap as we speak

[320touring]

y2blade said:

I'm liking this, all the best with it.

Following with interest

Thanks-hopefully both the daimler and the jaaag will be about for a while yet

[320touring]

Steve_W said:

Nice car OP. Also like your blog - had to LOL at the phrase "we were bored and had a hacksaw" re the Polo filter.

You know how it goes..

• looks at filter*
• looks at hacksaw*
• looks at filter*

"Aaah fuggit, whats the worst that could happen?"

[320touring]

Dalto123 said:

I have a hankering for one of these, badly, but the potentially high running costs are off sadly off putting!

However, my favourite quote from the blog had to be:

Something else was an approximation- the brakes were notable by their absence. This is obviously not an issue on an 1800kg 4.0l car. Not at all.

The way to look at it is that you can buy one outright for about the same as a month's repayment on a new one..

Then either learn how to fix em, or get a tame mechanic and off you go.

A mondeo tdci can throw a 1k bill no problem;)

[JagXJR]

Quite right, also you end up driving a £50K car (price dependent on model) that someone else has paid for, at that price. Most of the reliability problems seem to stem from neglect (certainly the case on my low mileage X-type anyway) or normal wear and tear (brakes and tyres need replacing on any car) so even when things go wrong you still pay less than running a newer -insert model of boring box here-

[320touring]

J

JagXJR said:

Most of the reliability problems seem to stem from neglect (certainly the case on my low mileage X-type anyway) or normal wear and tear (brakes and tyres need replacing on any car) so even when things go wrong you still pay less than running a newer -insert model of boring box here-

That is essentially the reasoning behind my whole fleet..

[JagXJR]

Mine too. I am running 3 interesting cars for less than most people pay for one boring one

[320touring]

A busy weekend of Blog activity:

Daimler cleaning in a Vulgalourish fashion
https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/a-day...

After giving my Brother's Daimler a right good clean I'm itching to get going on the xj6..Reckon it'll make a huge difference to the interior of my car- well worth the couple of Hours

[320touring]

Had a fiddle with this tonight.

Topping up the brake fluid after the bleeding has put out the ABS light, and the brakes seem nice and sharp

Its also now insured so have had a tootle this evening