COOL CLASSIC CAR SPOTTERS POST!!! Vol 2

[iSore]

vpr said:

tog said:

P5BNij said:

Apologies in advance John, but look if you dare...

Ha! I took that photo, and a friend of mine finished up buying the car. It's actually quite a nice 70's yellow, seemingly less garish than the modded one above.

Officially called Yellow Gold.

Not Cotswold yellow? That one sits strangely high at the back as well - and the panel fit...
I can't quite make out if the B pillar has a chrome trim - if it does, the bootlid panel should be satin black.

I was lucky enough to have two of the, a 1977 automatic and a 1976 manual. The manual was a rocketship at the time, still quite handy today I'd imagine.

[Sir Bagalot]

Don't see too many 600's out and about

[Blown2CV]

Sir Bagalot said:

Don't see too many 600's out and about

amazing. and worryingly close to that bollard and road sign!!

[RJG46]

Very cool.

[MikeT66]

P5BNij said:

tog said:

P5BNij said:

Ha! I took that photo, and a friend of mine finished up buying the car. It's actually quite a nice 70's yellow, seemingly less garish than the modded one above.



Or with the saturation turned up somewhat:



It also has this redeeming feature:

What a vision of '70s glamour it is too, some would no doubt disagree with that but whenever I see one it instantly conjures up the full jet set cliché in my mind's eye, Martini and Cinzano Bianco, wafting down to Monaco with a smooth V12 up front and not a care in the world. Harry Metcalfe's video of just such a trip in a yellow example comes immediately to mind!

Indeed... as summed up by Mr. Bryan Ferry and Jerry Hall in all their stylish splendour.

[Dapster]

Sir Bagalot said:

Don't see too many 600's out and about

Love these! What a majestic thing the W100 is - the full on lwb Idi Amin spec being the absolute business. If you haven't finished your Christmas list yet, there's one here....

https://www.classic-trader.com/uk/cars/listing/mer...

[RJG46]

The car from The Return of The Saint.

[P5BNij]

Very nice. I've just watched the Queen documentary that was on TV last night, there's a brief glimpse of the band arriving at Shepperton Studios for a rehearsal in 1977, Brian May has very swanky looking pale grey XJ-S while Roger Taylor and John Deacon arrive in a Range Rover.

[Dapster]

P5BNij said:

Very nice. I've just watched the Queen documentary that was on TV last night, there's a brief glimpse of the band arriving at Shepperton Studios for a rehearsal in 1977, Brian May has very swanky looking pale grey XJ-S while Roger Taylor and John Deacon arrive in a Range Rover.

http://erwinxjs.blogspot.com/2017/06/brian-may-jag...

erwinxjs said:

Bought new by Brian May on the 6th October 1975 - not a month after the XJ-S launch. Not sure how he funded it due to Queens little chart success at that time - all the documentaries I've watched about the band say they were skint until "Bohemian Rhapsody" LOL. Maybe he knew that the song they were to release the following month would end up one of the most successful songs of the 1970s and would send the band through the stratosphere. Oh and its chassis number 2w1094bw! 1 of the first hundred, how cool is that!

[P5BNij]

Ta!

[Jukebag]

Didn't know Brian May owned an XJS. On a side note, I wouldn't trust anything verbatim that any mainstream documentary or any official biography tells you about any famous artist and how they just happened to "make it big" through crossing their fingers for good luck and hard graft. I don't think Bob Dylan said "I've sold my soul to the devil" just for the fun of it.

[TR4man]

At Donington this morning

[aeropilot]

TR4man said:

At Donington this morning

Replica/fake being on a K-plate (assuming it's badged to match the colour scheme?)

[iSore]

Dapster said:

P5BNij said:

Very nice. I've just watched the Queen documentary that was on TV last night, there's a brief glimpse of the band arriving at Shepperton Studios for a rehearsal in 1977, Brian May has very swanky looking pale grey XJ-S while Roger Taylor and John Deacon arrive in a Range Rover.

http://erwinxjs.blogspot.com/2017/06/brian-may-jag...

erwinxjs said:

Bought new by Brian May on the 6th October 1975 - not a month after the XJ-S launch. Not sure how he funded it due to Queens little chart success at that time - all the documentaries I've watched about the band say they were skint until "Bohemian Rhapsody" LOL. Maybe he knew that the song they were to release the following month would end up one of the most successful songs of the 1970s and would send the band through the stratosphere. Oh and its chassis number 2w1094bw! 1 of the first hundred, how cool is that!

Either Keith Richards or Ronnie Wood had an early XJ-S in signal red. Keef had a later one, a TWR Jaguar Sport version circa 1989 that was rescued and restored a few years ago.

I remember the XJ-S coming out, seeing one or two not long after and thinking they were incredibly exotic and glamorous.

[finlo]

aeropilot said:

Replica/fake being on a K-plate (assuming it's badged to match the colour scheme?)

Oddball filler cap location.

[aeropilot]

finlo said:

aeropilot said:

Replica/fake being on a K-plate (assuming it's badged to match the colour scheme?)

Oddball filler cap location.

Well its got a cage too, so probably running a race/rally fuel cell, and that's the location used by Boreham for the relocated fuel filler on the works rally cars.

[Google [bot]]

Not my pic but fantastic

[Doofus]

RJG46 said:

The car from The Return of The Saint.

I don't think much of that sill repair.

[RJG46]

Old TG just happens to be on Dave with May driving a gold XJS. Starion and a white 635 also feature.

[bristolracer]

iSore said:

I remember the XJ-S coming out, seeing one or two not long after and thinking they were incredibly exotic and glamorous.

I also remember at the time it really struggled to shake off the e type legacy, it was always getting stick for not being like the e type which to be fair it never was designed to be.