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Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread
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Re: Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread
Nah, just like I can eat dinner while Gunther von Hagens is doing an autopsy, I can stomach your Jag history.NergleFuttocks wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 12:48 am 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...
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Re: Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread
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.
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Re: Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread
Less than 10 fill ups.
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Re: Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread
"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.
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On the road:
1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6
Running but need fettling:
1986 Honda CBX750F
1991 Maserati 222 SE
1990 Yamaha XJ900F
Tax & MOT-exempt, woohoo!
1982 Suzuki GSX1100SZ Katana
1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6
Running but need fettling:
1986 Honda CBX750F
1991 Maserati 222 SE
1990 Yamaha XJ900F
Tax & MOT-exempt, woohoo!
1982 Suzuki GSX1100SZ Katana
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Re: Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread
That's a beauty Max, I do love SIIIs. They look just right.
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Re: Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread
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.
Do I regret it? Not for a solitary second.
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Re: Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread
I did better than you then.The Reverend Bluejeans wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 3:08 pm 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.
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
On the road:
1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6
Running but need fettling:
1986 Honda CBX750F
1991 Maserati 222 SE
1990 Yamaha XJ900F
Tax & MOT-exempt, woohoo!
1982 Suzuki GSX1100SZ Katana
1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6
Running but need fettling:
1986 Honda CBX750F
1991 Maserati 222 SE
1990 Yamaha XJ900F
Tax & MOT-exempt, woohoo!
1982 Suzuki GSX1100SZ Katana
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Re: Jag! The Ghostly fleet thread
Is Max old enough to remember Mystic Meg? Might just be before his time.John F wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 10:27 am
"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.
(Just to make you feel old...)