I, too, seem to fly in the face of conventional Jag-fancying....I'd sooner have a pre-Mk2 3.4 than the oft-touted later cars and my dream XK spec would be a spatted 140 FHC with disc wheels. Having been horrified in a highly-illegal motorway dash in an early 4.2, I've no wish to further my E Type ex...

Neither is there any such thing as a "genuine Vintage" Jaguar. Those wheels do look shit, too.

Hooli wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 4:15 pm Same styling as the KTM too.

Like all collecting, though, the last one in the set is the hardest to find.....

That Ro80 looks very close to what Mercedes-Benz referred to as Petrol Blue. My 280E was that colour although it was slightly less attractive two-toned as it was with Oxide Red. Still, in my opinion, the best colour for a W123..... 1681920447644011bf9bf22_78.jpeg Better than that Dogdick Pink they d...

I still do not think of Rover 600s as being in anything other than Nightfire Red....



A truly iconic colour.

Chancer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 12:04 am Screenshot_20231130-000129_Chrome.jpg
Mini Sidewalk in Kingfisher Blue with Blue tartan interior.
This is the only car i really hanker after, and hopefully soon might be able to have one in the garage.....

That picture, lovely though the colour is, has brought my number-plate rash on.

Is that a recent development, Barry? I have them on all my vehicles and have done for several years, the youngest one is at least five years old. Never had a failure....

Bollocks. I shouldn't have said that, should I?

Asimo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:15 am I don’t know what these colours are called, but they became my favourites for the XJ and the Capri when I was working on the petrol pumps 50 years ago.
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Heather and Amber Gold

I suspect, given the demographic of so many that I see, it is simply borked air-con leaving no effective way of ventilating apart from opening the windows which are probably also borked.