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DonkeyApple said:
It's quite staggering, when you think back to that era that stuff started rotting from the moment it came off the assembly line regardless of what you did. My parents Jags, Daimlers, Aston's and then Range Rovers all just went for it despite being oiled, garaged and kept clean.
Panels could be seen rusting before painting at Maranello in the 60s/70s. 
Doofus said:
It's a good job you're not obsessing about originality, Harry, because if you were, your choices would be very limited.
My grandfather's was BR Green with biscuit. That looked quite nice. My father's at that time was silver with red and I've always thought that was a great combo. I seem to recall there being more browns than that chart offers so they must have expanded the range as my mother had two very pooh brown XJs in a row. It's a shape and design that generally looks fantastic in any dark colour. Going light, I think, makes it much harder to get it right.
Somebody on the fast estate thread has a relatively new RS6 they specced up in a Bentley orange iirc. Seems to work well on such a big car, perhaps not on a classic though... 
DonkeyApple said:
My grandfather's was BR Green with biscuit. That looked quite nice. My father's at that time was silver with red and I've always thought that was a great combo. I seem to recall there being more browns than that chart offers so they must have expanded the range as my mother had two very pooh brown XJs in a row.
It's a shape and design that generally looks fantastic in any dark colour. Going light, I think, makes it much harder to get it right.
Ye, there were definitely some suspect browns. My grandfather had a Series 1 XJ12 in a revolting turdy shade but then redeemed himself with a BRG Series 2 Daimler.It's a shape and design that generally looks fantastic in any dark colour. Going light, I think, makes it much harder to get it right.
When I was younger I always thought of proper XJ's as either a bit Gerrard's Cross Gin & Jag or very much pub landlord territory. I love them very much now and feel I should have one at some point. Love Harry's car and rather like the blue tbh.
ettore said:
Ye, there were definitely some suspect browns. My grandfather had a Series 1 XJ12 in a revolting turdy shade but then redeemed himself with a BRG Series 2 Daimler.
When I was younger I always thought of proper XJ's as either a bit Gerrard's Cross Gin & Jag or very much pub landlord territory. I love them very much now and feel I should have one at some point. Love Harry's car and rather like the blue tbh.
That's true. Whether it was the pub landlord or the chap at the bar with the Panatella, they had the image of the older gent who was forever accidentally brushing against the barmaid. By the late 80s though, they had all switched to Mercs and they seemed to become the Berks and Herts sexpest chariot of choice. When I was younger I always thought of proper XJ's as either a bit Gerrard's Cross Gin & Jag or very much pub landlord territory. I love them very much now and feel I should have one at some point. Love Harry's car and rather like the blue tbh.
M4SER said:
maz8062 said:
I see Silverstone auctions has got an auction coming up later this month. Has Harry done an inventory walk around yet? If not, why not? I love them!
Not yet but I'll be doing one next week. Some really good entries in there too, so I expect it won't be a short video review.. Make it as long as you like!! These are probably my favourite videos on your channel - it's like a modern-day version of browsing Auto Trader magazine (what was the prestige version of the magazine called again - Top Marques?!?)
If you're doing two versions of it (i.e. a 'full/long' video and a 'highlights' version), can you release both at the same time? or at least the long one first?
(The last time, I watched the shorter video as soon as it was released, but then the Full version went live afterwards, half of which I'd seen already!)
M4SER said:
So different today, as rust doesn't ever seem to a problem on new cars anymore
Land Rover did a very good job of maintaining that nostalgia by cleverly adding rust to their Defenders right up until they stopped making them in 2016. They even specced bi-metal corrosion free of charge NomduJour said:
ettore said:
When I was younger I always thought of proper XJ's as either a bit Gerrard's Cross Gin & Jag or very much pub landlord territory
Definitely one for the golf club.Doofus said:
It's a good job you're not obsessing about originality, Harry, because if you were, your choices would be very limited.
Thanks for this, they were awful colours, weren't they? A friend interviewed Jaguar's sales director for the USA in the seventies several years ago and he told him these colours were forced on Jaguar by BL management and Jaguar directors hated them. The sales director's comment on Jaguar colours in the seventies was as follows;
The 70s car colours available at the time were 'any colour you want as long as it's horrible'
So true and that's why I'm not interested with keeping it original.
M4SER said:
Thanks for this, they were awful colours, weren't they? A friend interviewed Jaguar's sales director for the USA in the seventies several years ago and he told him these colours were forced on Jaguar by BL management and Jaguar directors hated them.
The sales director's comment on Jaguar colours in the seventies was as follows;
The 70s car colours available at the time were 'any colour you want as long as it's horrible'
So true and that's why I'm not interested with keeping it original.
I wouldn't want one of those colours either, but I'd try to stay in period, I think.The sales director's comment on Jaguar colours in the seventies was as follows;
The 70s car colours available at the time were 'any colour you want as long as it's horrible'
So true and that's why I'm not interested with keeping it original.
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DonkeyApple said:
Very reminiscent of the walking tour of the Daimler I inherited in my 20s when my grandfather stopped driving. Lovely car that's still about and I still keep pondering whether to buy it back and have it done.
That car was bought news from Stratstones in Mayfair and my father always had his cars wax oiled so this one was done, dropped round to my grandfather and some time later when coming to a halt in the garage he heard the whoosh of water in the sills. A few minutes later after a poke with a screwdriver and the floor was awash with dark orange water.
Shocking but then that was the time when this sort of thing used to happen. Rust was almost the biggest ownership issue back in the seventies and early eighties, especially for my generation when trying to buy yourself a more fun car, as it was always cars that were close to not passing their next MOT (due to rust and priced accordingly) that tempted you to give them a go in the hope you could patch it up well enough to get through their next MOT. So different today, as rust doesn't ever seem to a problem on new cars anymoreThat car was bought news from Stratstones in Mayfair and my father always had his cars wax oiled so this one was done, dropped round to my grandfather and some time later when coming to a halt in the garage he heard the whoosh of water in the sills. A few minutes later after a poke with a screwdriver and the floor was awash with dark orange water.
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