Hooli wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 8:54 pm Who needs a rev counter with a slushbox really? It's nice to have but in a pisswank car it doesn't tell you anything useful.

The only time I've used mine is when setting the base idle.

If you want one car to last your lifetime this is it: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BWMAAOSwaU5ePEUQ/s-l1600.jpg fireball straight 8 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Buick-Super-8-2-door-coupe-1951-fireball-straight-8-classic-american-swap-px/164112773020?hash=item2635e22f9c:g:HdYAAOSwjzdePETl My Grandf...

'61-'62 Dodge Lancer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Lancer

Never mind all this aspirational capitalist nonsense, what you need is a Hillman Impski! https://www.ooyyo.com/bulgaria/c=CDA31D7114D2854F111B876FBA68345938A31D7116C4874111/1159537302331566786.html/ I can't extract pics from the ad, sorry. But click on it, it's worth it. Here's a pic of this model ...

Does that say LD as the spec? It will be. The GL and TI had a different interior to this car including, somewhat bizarrely, a completely different dashboard. The GL and TI had a much more upmarket affair with round dials and a particularly attractive treatment of the glovebox area. The TI even had ...

Apart from rust, electrical issues, brutal thirst and being too long to park anywhere, XJ40s are great everyday cars.

Hooli wrote: ↑Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:50 am My '92 3.2S had manual seats. The XJR X300 I tried had electric ones and it was like sitting on the car not in it. Bloody horrible.

That may be an X300 thing - I feel perched on the seats not sitting in them for some strange reason.

I'm quite tempted to bid on this. Looks a viable project with a bit of work. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/8O8AAOSwFaNeGHUb/s-l1600.jpg https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F133299997056 I take it you have a V5 and are planning on nailing a cooper id to...

cros wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 8:48 pm https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 4477652726

You'd have to make a big effort to get the proportions as wrongs as this. 23.000 quids worth of wank.

Vintage-style kit cars are always a poor effort, but that one is spectacularly grim.

I've got to disagree with Mr Rust bucket there. When talking about XJ40 or X300 Jags I'd get one with manual seats. The electric seats don't go as low which limits head room and for me utterly ruins the driving position. Jag had sorted this by the X308 though. Ha - the very thing I was complaining ...