Friday 21st November 2014

Jag 4x4 scooped! You Know You Want To

There's Jaguar Land Rover the corporation and there's Jaguar Land Rover the creation - here's the latter

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If you were in any way responsible for Jaguar product development in the mid-80s, it's probably best if you turn away now.

Cultured for a V8 off-roader called 'Beasty'

We present the Jagender, the car that could surely have turned around the fortunes of the British car industry in the 1980s, if only someone had had the cods to build it. Nobody official did, sadly, so eBay member 3690e decided to fill the gap. He took a 1972 Series III Landie, a 1986 Jag XJ6 and a dirty great V8 Jimmy diesel, retired quietly into the garage with a selection of large hammers and, after a lot of banging came forth, sitting proudly behind the wheel of the superb machine you see before you now.

He calls it a LandJag. We prefer Jagender as it has a more gigglesome schoolboy sound to it. That someone should have had this idea in the first place is remarkable enough. What's really special about it is that, having had the idea, this chap has not done what most of us would have done, like got someone sane to throw a cup of cold water in his face and tell him to pull himself together. He's gone and done it.

The kind of cut and shut we can approve of

And the ultimate coup de grace is that it actually works. Not just mechanically, either. Appearance is a subjective judgement, but this thing really hangs together, figuratively and (you hope) literally. It's MoT'd til January and the builder reckons it'll sail through once the cracked windscreen has been changed.

The number of people watching an eBay auction doesn't necessarily mean anything, but with over 600 watching this one you can easily imagine that mid-80s Jag man scratching his head and wondering what might have been if only they'd gone down the luxury off-road route back then. They are about to now, of course, but let's be honest, the C-X17 doesn't have quite the same degree of bullheaded get-out-of-my-way machismo as the Jagender.

What's it worth? How do you put a value on something like this? The market will definitely decide as, with two days to go, the vendor says it's nearly at its reserve. Get your bidding boots on.

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'LANDJAG CHEVY V8 MONSTER TRUCK'
Price:  Current high bid of £4,300
Why you should: It's V8 powered homebrew
Why you shouldn’t: Let's hope the builder knew his way round a MIG welder

See the original advert here.

 

[Collaudatore]

Sure, why not?