07 Nissan Skyline 350GT - old car Nazi buys MODERN motor

[Bobberoo99]

Are you home for Christmas?

[anonymous-user]

Totez, and home for good next spring.

[Bobberoo99]

Does this mean a return to buying old, tired, unsuitable, expensive but extremely good fun classics???

[anonymous-user]

What is the Pope doing with those Rosary beads?

[Janluke]

Bobberoo99 said:

Does this mean a return to buying old, tired, unsuitable, expensive but extremely good fun classics???

And some two wheeled fun too?

[anonymous-user]

Two legged fun.

Oh, you mean..., er....

Let me start again. I still have a 1980s Moto Morini 350S. That's enough bike for an old dude like me.

[anonymous-user]

I had a look at this Jag at a dealer's near Maidenhead. Not bad at all, and the bloke might perhaps take 5 for it. I did not buy it, as something else has caught my eye.

https://www.aspirecars.co.uk/used-cars/jaguar-xk8-...

[Bobberoo99]

Looks good, but what else have you seen then??

[anonymous-user]

Not saying!

That blue Jag struck me as a pretty straight car and the dealer came across as a reasonable bloke, so if anyone fancies one of those cars, it's worth a shuftie. I am considering something else from the other dealer who shared the same yard.

[Bobberoo99]

You're such a tease!!!!

[anonymous-user]

OK, I was thinking of spaffing on an Interceptor (I have had two before and LERRRRVE them), but really they are now too old to be used as dailies, and from April I will need a long range fast cruiser/car to show up to meetings in, so head ruled heart for the first time in ever (sort of), and I bought a bargain priced 2009 Jag XK (normally aspirated five litre V8, six speed switchable auto with flippy paddles) with 71,000 miles and ALL TEH TOYS. Looks like new. Goes fast. Steams up in shonky British fashion. Price well below book price. Tax is 570, insurance 550, does 24 MPG.

[seiben]

Nice car, nice pub

[Bobberoo99]

Lovely!!!! But deeply disappointed, that's your second modern car in a row!!! You know full well it's going to be horrendously expensive when/if it goes wrong, you could have been wafting around in a lovely old XJC, much more your style and most definitely ruinously expensive!!!

[anonymous-user]

XJCs are silly money nowadays as are good XJSs, so I have embraced dullness. This Jag seems to have been looked after and is very spiff.

I will keep my MR2 and Landy and Sherpa and maybe my Lancia.

[gforceg]

They do look bloody good, don't they?

[anonymous-user]

Yes, they do.

[Bobberoo99]

Ok, the MR2 I get, the Lancia I get, but a Sherpa van?!?!?!

[anonymous-user]

It is a camper van for going to festivals in, and waaaaaay better than a VW Bay van.
Faster, more spacious, and super rare. It has a reliable two litre O Series engine with an SU carburetor, a bombproof four speed gearbox, disc brakes on the front, a pop up roof, a cooker, a fridge, and room inside for two to camp in comfort, four at a pinch. It has done 102000 miles and is not very rusty. I love it!

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 31st December 20:01

[citizensm1th]

I have just decided on my new years resolution, try so very hard not to unleash the green eyed monster over BV, s automotive purchases.

[alpha channel]

Just keep an eye on the timing chain, apparently the 5 litre lump has reintroduced a bit of timing chain stretch.

A good daily though and, I've found, not as numb as some cars of the same era and rather gets under the skin... even with an impending shocks replacement coming up (£246-ish a corner for non Jaguar stickered Bilsteins, same shocks with a Jaguar sticker? that'll be £400 each please), a bolshie ped impact system and an aux belt that no one seems to carry the right length of (tried three and all too short).

Even so I'm not looking forward to the day I move mine on, even though it'll be either for an S2 Elise or for a Chimera (the only two cars that I'd willingly replace it with).