Topic: Want convertible, thinking G37x (Read 4746 times)

Deep Funk · « **Reply #100 on:** July 08, 2015, 10:38:57 AM »

Quote from: DaveBSC on July 08, 2015, 12:18:51 AM

My dad has a '71 E-type 4.2 Series II. It looks absolutely absurd in modern parking spaces parked next to modern cars, like a toy because of how small it is. It also makes the current gen XK8 parked next to it in the garage look like a fat whale.

Your dad has taste. I congratulate you with an E-Type in the family.

DaveBSC · « **Reply #101 on:** July 08, 2015, 05:23:14 PM »

Quote from: Deep Funk on July 08, 2015, 10:38:57 AM

Your dad has taste. I congratulate you with an E-Type in the family.

Yeah it's cool. Of course his preference would be a later run S1 when it still had the covered lights, aluminum dash and original switchgear instead of the awful switches of later cars, but S1s are BIG money these days.

sfoclt · « **Reply #102 on:** July 08, 2015, 05:29:30 PM »

I have a storage unit in Manhattan Beach and the guy in the unit over has an E-type he stores inside his unit WITH the rest of his storage. The thing really is tiny when he rolls it out.

Years ago I had a V12 XJ-S that was fun at the time, but had endless eletrical issues. If you turned on one thing, something else unrelated would come on. I had to unplug the battery each night to keep it from draining. Ever time they "fixed" the problem, something similar would pop back up.

Deep Funk · « **Reply #103 on:** July 08, 2015, 08:55:39 PM »

Could you not strip the electric gizmos, keep the essentials and have a great bare bones Jaguar with a glorious engine? I am not the petrolhead I used to be but there is something about Jaguars and the engines they developed for decades.

If I would be a millionaire I would buy a Lister GP Jaguar "official replica" and call it a day with that glorious 3.8 V6. Enough dreaming for me...

sfoclt · « **Reply #104 on:** July 09, 2015, 12:49:14 AM »

Yeah, I wish I had it now. At the time it was just my wife's typical luxury car so it got traded in after too much trouble.

Anaxilus · « **Reply #105 on:** July 09, 2015, 04:19:15 AM »

Quote from: sfoclt on July 08, 2015, 05:29:30 PM

Years ago I had a V12 XJ-S that was fun at the time, but had endless eletrical issues.

Remember what year it was?

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