Get your Jags out - Show us your car

[buddyspire]

Keeping it in the family, helped my Dad build it when I was 15 - now I'm 50 it's mine to play with.

[wilwak]

Chris_H said:

Well, it's goodbye to this:


.....and hello to this;


I pick it up next week.

Nice! I have an XFR-S saloon. Bonkers car!

Just sold my FTYPE too.

How many miles on the XKR-s? Looks a nice find.

[Chris_H]

wilwak said:

Chris_H said:

Well, it's goodbye to this:


.....and hello to this;


I pick it up next week.

Nice! I have an XFR-S saloon. Bonkers car!

Just sold my FTYPE too.

How many miles on the XKR-s? Looks a nice find.

It has quite high mileage for a '15 car at 10K. It was used by one of the dealer's managers as his daily ride. It's immaculate though and as I only do about 1.5K a year, the mileage will soon equalise. I also got three years servicing for £499 which I thought was worthwhile.

[e600]

Finally got it home, now the fun starts

[e600]

[jamieduff1981]

e600 said:

Please keep us updated with this one!

[jamieduff1981]

Chris_H said:

Well, it's goodbye to this:


.....and hello to this;


I pick it up next week.

The Ultra Blue looks really good on yours

[Riccardino]

e600 said:

This requires a dedicated thread with updates.

I am very jealous

[johnxjsc1985]

Riccardino said:

This requires a dedicated thread with updates.

I am very jealous

I was just thinking how you can hate someone without even knowing them.
I think he is going to have his hands full for quite sometime. Looks like a perfect set up and it would be great to see some update photos from time to time

[P5BNij]

buddyspire said:

Keeping it in the family, helped my Dad build it when I was 15 - now I'm 50 it's mine to play with.

Top first post right there! More photos if you please buddyspire, that is rather fabulous

[Justayellowbadge]

P5BNij said:

buddyspire said:

Keeping it in the family, helped my Dad build it when I was 15 - now I'm 50 it's mine to play with.

Top first post right there! More photos if you please buddyspire, that is rather fabulous

Yes, this.

What's the story, looks like an XJ27?

[Shaw Tarse]

Needs its own thread

[anonymous-user]

buddyspire said:

Keeping it in the family, helped my Dad build it when I was 15 - now I'm 50 it's mine to play with.

Lovely car, but why the horrible black and silver plate? It looks completely wrong on the car (leave aside that it's also illegal; I am talking aesthetics).

One of the key points about an XJ-S (controversial then, not so much now) is that it is NOT an E-Type, and represents a departure in design and performance concepts from its predecessor. The XJ-S (later XJS) is a design made for the mid seventies, not for the sixties, and the black plates went out in the early seventies, so why dress the car up with a sixties/early seventies style plate?

Your car, of course, and you can paint it pink, fit enormous wings, run it on knobbly tyres, and generally do what you want with it (subject to legalities), but this seems an odd aesthetic choice to me.

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 3rd October 05:33

[STattam]

Breadvan72 said:

Lovely car, but why the horrible black and silver plate? It looks completely wrong on the car (leave aside that it's also illegal; I am talking aesthetics).

One of the key points about an XJ-S (controversial then, not so much now) is that it is NOT an E-Type, and represents a departure in design and performance concepts from its predecessor. The XJ-S (later XJS) is a design made for the mid seventies, not for the sixties, and the black plates went out in the early seventies, so why dress the car up with a sixties/early seventies style plate?

Your car, of course, and you can paint it pink, fit enormous wings, run it on knobbly tyres, and generally do what you want with it (subject to legalities), but this seems an odd aesthetic choice to me.

Edited by Breadvan72 on Saturday 3rd October 05:33

Blimey, you don't approve of the plate then! Nice random facts too.

[anonymous-user]

Do you mean these random facts? One of the reasons why the XJ-S was initially not popular with the reviewers was that it didn't look like a lineal successor to the E type, and was much more of a GT car than a hairy chested Brit sports car (NB: whisper it who dares, an E Type is actually not that good a sports car - looks great, drives not so great). The XJ-S (renamed XJS later on) has now come to be seen as an iconic design and has aged well. It is also a brilliant package as a GT car. I hate to say this as an Interceptor loyalist, but, boot space apart, the Jag kicks an Interceptor into a cocked hat as a long range Martini-searching fast cruiser. It has escaped the long shadow cast by the E-Type, and stands on its own four wheels.

And, yes, I think that plate looks uber naff. Still, diff'rent strokes.

[jamieduff1981]

I'm sure if he wants a lecture on asthetic tastes from a stranger he'll ask for it.

[johnxjsc1985]

the only problem with the XJS at its launch was it wasn't an E type and the pukered rectum brigade never give it a chance. Age has been kind to it and good ones are increasing invalue but you can still own a very usuable one for sensible money unlike the E Type

[anonymous-user]

jamieduff1981 said:

I'm sure if he wants a lecture on asthetic tastes from a stranger he'll ask for it.

Er, you do know that this is the internet, don't you?

The XJS is a fab car, I think. I paid just over 2K for my very usable 1992 XJS 4.0 (that was in July of this year). The car has a fair chunk of rust here and there, but that is fixable. Lots of car and fun for less money than a boring second hand modern hatchback. My late dad had an early manual XJ-S back in the 90s, but his was a bit of a doggy one and he did not keep it for long.

My lady friend has a very good 1994 XJS 4.0 Convertible that she bought for 8K and that one might perhaps be worth 10K on a good day, as it is in rather good nick and has the AJ16 engine and a drop top and so on. Another (non lady) friend has just bought a late 80s V12 with slightly dodgy brakes but otherwise good for a few buttons. I know of a rusty 3.7 [EDIT; typo, it's 3.6, derrr] manual with an XJS plate on sale for 600. Engine and wheels seem good, pre facelift interior ok, body quite bad, so 600 maybe a tad too much. Bloke wants extra for the plate.

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 3rd October 10:15

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 4th October 17:00

[STattam]

Breadvan72 said:

Er, you do know that this is the internet, don't you?

The XJS is a fab car, I think. I paid just over 2K for my very usable 1992 XJS 4.0 (that was in July of this year). The car has a fair chunk of rust here and there, but that is fixable. Lots of car and fun for less money than a boring second hand modern hatchback. My late dad had an early manual XJ-S back in the 90s, but his was a bit of a doggy one and he did not keep it for long.

My lady friend has a very good 1994 XJS 4.0 Convertible that she bought for 8K and that one might perhaps be worth 10K on a good day, as it is in rather good nick and has the AJ16 engine and a drop top and so on. Another (non lady) friend has just bought a late 80s V12 with slightly dodgy brakes but otherwise good for a few buttons. I know of a rusty 3.7 manual with an XJS plate on sale for 600. Engine and wheels seem good, pre facelift interior ok, body quite bad, so 600 maybe a tad too much. Bloke wants extra for the plate.

Edited by Breadvan72 on Saturday 3rd October 10:15

3.7?

[buddyspire]

Breadvan72 said:

Lovely car, but why the horrible black and silver plate? It looks completely wrong on the car (leave aside that it's also illegal; I am talking aesthetics).

One of the key points about an XJ-S (controversial then, not so much now) is that it is NOT an E-Type, and represents a departure in design and performance concepts from its predecessor. The XJ-S (later XJS) is a design made for the mid seventies, not for the sixties, and the black plates went out in the early seventies, so why dress the car up with a sixties/early seventies style plate?

Your car, of course, and you can paint it pink, fit enormous wings, run it on knobbly tyres, and generally do what you want with it (subject to legalities), but this seems an odd aesthetic choice to me.

Edited by Breadvan72 on Saturday 3rd October 05:33

Thanks for your comments but as usual people jump to the wrong conclusions without asking or checking.

The car is actually built on a 1971 XJ6 - the plate is legal and yes it was my Dads choice to use the black plate because he wanted to and could.

For the nice comments on the car and those that are interested.

It was built at the time with the idea of having an everyday car to use as his other jags were more Sunday cars E Type series 1, Mk10 and Xk120 drop head. The opportunity to build the XJS came about out of the blue he liked the basic shape but not the big plastic bumpers or plastic dash and at the time 12mpg.

So we had a XJ6 and decided to make the S.






Pictures taken in last few months during a complete engine rebuild and putting the car back on the road. It was originally finished in 1981 and went off the road in 1998. Since then been in the garage as Dad had other toys to play with. I built a Westfield. Then a few years ago my dad decided to put her back on the road but unfortunately had a small stroke so was not able to finish it. So I offered to and he then said if I was doing it I could have it. He liked seeing it out again so bought himself a 6.0 litre convertible XJS. I finished it in August and have already nearly done 1000 miles.

Edited by buddyspire on Saturday 3rd October 13:45

Edited by buddyspire on Monday 5th October 16:31