Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread

[Eddie Honda]

What do we reckon? Keeping it for less than 3 months or greater than?

Less than 3.

[Eddie Honda]

I have all the history for my Jag. It will scare EVERYONE off. It would be easier to sell if I chucked at least 3 of the A4 folders away...

Nah, just like I can eat dinner while Gunther von Hagens is doing an autopsy, I can stomach your Jag history.

[Junkman]

I once bought a Lancia Thema for 300 Marks that also came with a full library of scary shit, including correspondence between the first owner's lawyer and Lancia Deutschland after the third engine swap. Proper LMFAO stuff. Drove it a metric shitload of miles for the remaining 20 Months TÜV it had without the slightest incident, then sold it to a friendly Polish guy who probably still hoons it around. The only real defects it had were knackered rear shocks and a sagging headliner.

[DodgeRover]

What do we reckon? Keeping it for less than 3 months or greater than?

Less than 3.

Less than 10 fill ups.

[John F]

"I foresee a brief, glorious but ultimately ruinous future of ghosty running around with the Jag's tank almost empty on sub-£20 fill-ups before it's sold & replaced with a Daewoo Matiz or something equally frugal."

It's a lovely car, but utterly mental for someone in your financial position, Max. If you enjoy its performance AT ALL you'll get low-10s mpg... that's going to get old very quickly unless you have money dropping out of your arse, which is unlikely for a cycle mechanic / cycle delivery rider.

[Hooli]

That's a beauty Max, I do love SIIIs. They look just right.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I had a V12 XJS 30 years ago next month, October '89. Purchase and resto cost me 5 grand, a lot more then than it is now. I was 22 at the time.

Do I regret it? Not for a solitary second.

[John F]

I had a V12 XJS 30 years ago next month, October '89. Purchase and resto cost me 5 grand, a lot more then than it is now. I was 22 at the time.

Do I regret it? Not for a solitary second.

I did better than you then.

In the early 1990s I got a 1978 pre-HE v12 XJ-S for £100 (i.e. the amount of back-rent my Jag owner housemate owed us the day he flew off to start a new job in Portugal), drove it for a few months in a legally-questionable manner whenever I could get it started / had spare dosh for fuel - it drank like a tramp in a Brasso factory - and then sold it for ten times what it owed me as spores or reapers.

Would I have another one? For £100, oh yes. For real money? HA HA HA HA HA no

[SiC]

That's a beauty Max, I do love SIIIs. They look just right.

I read that as you love sills

[SiC]

"I foresee a brief, glorious but ultimately ruinous future of ghosty running around with the Jag's tank almost empty on sub-£20 fill-ups before it's sold & replaced with a Daewoo Matiz or something equally frugal."

It's a lovely car, but utterly mental for someone in your financial position, Max. If you enjoy its performance AT ALL you'll get low-10s mpg... that's going to get old very quickly unless you have money dropping out of your arse, which is unlikely for a cycle mechanic / cycle delivery rider.

Is Max old enough to remember Mystic Meg? Might just be before his time.

(Just to make you feel old...)