Barn Bragging - House of Heaps
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citizensm1th said:
I rather like that. Pretty cheap too. 
Lovecraft was a weird person with unpleasant views, but he was good at depicting nameless dread. The real expert at that, however, was M R James. Try "Oh whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad", "Number 13", or "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas".
I like a clever feature of the 1980s role playing game "Call of Cthulu". Each character engaged in paranormal investigations in foggy 1920s New England, armed only with a revolver, a torch, and the uncertain power of reason in the face of Eldritch abominations, starts the game with a certain level of sanity points. Each time that a character encounters one of the Old Ones or their minions or familiars, the character loses sanity points, and he or she will eventually, unless helped by a psychiatrist, end up in Arkham Asylum.
I like a clever feature of the 1980s role playing game "Call of Cthulu". Each character engaged in paranormal investigations in foggy 1920s New England, armed only with a revolver, a torch, and the uncertain power of reason in the face of Eldritch abominations, starts the game with a certain level of sanity points. Each time that a character encounters one of the Old Ones or their minions or familiars, the character loses sanity points, and he or she will eventually, unless helped by a psychiatrist, end up in Arkham Asylum.
Breadvan72 said:
Yes, a 2009 XK. Very competent and possibly the best car that I have ever owned, but I still prefer much less efficient, less safe, and less reliable old wrecks.
Yes, I got the impression you do 
I was thinking of one for my next car is all, so I have been keeping an eye out for it on Reader’s Cars.
Here it is.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=18...
In my opinion, a very good modern Grand Tourer, and just on the cusp of still being an oily, partly analog, mechanical car, albeit one heavily burdened by (and also benefiting from) computers.
XKs are now available cheap as chips for what they are. Some future classic potential (subject to large displacement petrol engines still being lawfully usable in a few decades hence) because designed to be beautiful and not just aerodynamic. Aluminium bodies. Build quality seems pretty good. Paint a bit thin and easy to scratch in the colour that mine is.
I am too old and slow to need an XKR - the bog standard XK five litre is plenty powerful and fast enough as far as I am concerned, and its fuel economy is not insanely terrible.
Fuel economy was, however, often thrown to the winds during the height of the lockdown, when I was lawfully shuttling between Oxfordshire and Norfolk on an almost weekly basis. All that I am saying is that the deserted A11 has long smooth stretches with no cameras, and at that time no or almost no traffic of any kind. That is all that I am saying.
PS: unlike an Interceptor, discussed nearby, an XK does not try to lift its front wheels when operated in the manner in which a 1970s Grand Tourer was intended to be operated.
PPS: The XK8 is maybe more trad Jag, but all of them are now oooooolld, and they are often rusty. The XK is I think quite a step ahead of the XK8, but the XK still looks and feels Jag.
PPPS: It won't out corner a 911 or an Evora, but why would you want it to?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=18...
In my opinion, a very good modern Grand Tourer, and just on the cusp of still being an oily, partly analog, mechanical car, albeit one heavily burdened by (and also benefiting from) computers.
XKs are now available cheap as chips for what they are. Some future classic potential (subject to large displacement petrol engines still being lawfully usable in a few decades hence) because designed to be beautiful and not just aerodynamic. Aluminium bodies. Build quality seems pretty good. Paint a bit thin and easy to scratch in the colour that mine is.
I am too old and slow to need an XKR - the bog standard XK five litre is plenty powerful and fast enough as far as I am concerned, and its fuel economy is not insanely terrible.
Fuel economy was, however, often thrown to the winds during the height of the lockdown, when I was lawfully shuttling between Oxfordshire and Norfolk on an almost weekly basis. All that I am saying is that the deserted A11 has long smooth stretches with no cameras, and at that time no or almost no traffic of any kind. That is all that I am saying.
PS: unlike an Interceptor, discussed nearby, an XK does not try to lift its front wheels when operated in the manner in which a 1970s Grand Tourer was intended to be operated.
PPS: The XK8 is maybe more trad Jag, but all of them are now oooooolld, and they are often rusty. The XK is I think quite a step ahead of the XK8, but the XK still looks and feels Jag.
PPPS: It won't out corner a 911 or an Evora, but why would you want it to?
Thanks for the answer and link.
I’m a person of little needs. I’m looking for a future purchase. A nice V8 cruiser to replace my nice V8 cruiser.
I don’t want another German car, plus I’ve always loved Jaguar.
It will be next year though, when I’ve built my savings up a bit.
Lockdown has financially smacked me around like the bogeyman.
I’m a person of little needs. I’m looking for a future purchase. A nice V8 cruiser to replace my nice V8 cruiser.
I don’t want another German car, plus I’ve always loved Jaguar.
It will be next year though, when I’ve built my savings up a bit.
Lockdown has financially smacked me around like the bogeyman.
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