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- Sat Jul 10, 2021 12:40 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Jaguar Sovereign: rust and rehabilitation.
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19997
Re: Jaguar Sovereign: rust and rehabilitation.
Jaguar were always good at that - they hired the cleverest guys. I just remember the XJ40 looking really old even when it was launched, a time when the Series III really was making a comeback. For all that though it was unmistakably a Jag, unlike the stuff they make now. It probably did look old or...
- Sat Jul 10, 2021 1:40 am
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: From the land taste forgot. Yank barge.
- Replies: 69
- Views: 16782
Re: From the land taste forgot. Yank barge.
My word, this thing is handsome . I do like American cars. When I was a small child I had an obsession with covered headlights so I'm rather fond of 'Seventies Lincolns too. I blame Frank Cannon. And of course the daddy of them all - the clam headlights on the '65 Buick Riviera. Bally marvelous whe...
- Sat Jul 10, 2021 12:20 am
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: From the land taste forgot. Yank barge.
- Replies: 69
- Views: 16782
Re: From the land taste forgot. Yank barge.
My word, this thing is handsome.
I do like American cars. When I was a small child I had an obsession with covered headlights so I'm rather fond of 'Seventies Lincolns too. I blame Frank Cannon.
I do like American cars. When I was a small child I had an obsession with covered headlights so I'm rather fond of 'Seventies Lincolns too. I blame Frank Cannon.
- Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:03 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Jaguar Sovereign: rust and rehabilitation.
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19997
Re: Jaguar Sovereign: rust and rehabilitation.
The 'eighties glory of the XJ40 launch video is on Youtube. No doubt this will have been playing on a 14" SONY monitor TV in some cosy corner of the dealer. Welcome to 1986. I actually went to the launch party of the XJ40 at my local Jag dealer with my father. I was at school at the time and af...
- Fri Jul 09, 2021 5:30 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
- Replies: 446
- Views: 160540
Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
I don't think it had, but BL was incapable of calculating the value in the various marques it owned.
- Fri Jul 09, 2021 5:25 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Trials and tribulations
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3770
Re: Trials and tribulations
When was this - I'm guessing mid 1980s?
- Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:28 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
- Replies: 446
- Views: 160540
Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
I remember them as being well regarded generally - except perhaps for rust.
- Fri Jul 09, 2021 11:48 am
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
- Replies: 446
- Views: 160540
Re: Rusty Triumphs in Scotland
I would say the Acclaim was seen as a bit posher than the Maxi (maybe just me!)
- Fri Jul 09, 2021 12:54 am
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
- Replies: 1962
- Views: 661683
Re: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
This car is very, very nice. I must get to grips with the TDW motoring section. My grandfather had a factory RHD Buick Roadmaster which he bought new in 1948. That had a similar profile to this Pontiac. The US produced some of the best looking car in the world at that time - and did so right up to t...
- Thu Jul 08, 2021 10:43 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Jaguar Sovereign: rust and rehabilitation.
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19997
Re: Jaguar Sovereign: rust and rehabilitation.
You'll be glad* to know that Jag kept most of those rust traps right up to the X308 for the traditional Jag owning experience. Especially the one where the footwell to sill seam rots & leaves a damp patch under your outside foot. Heritage innit! Sure is... https://www.thedarkwob.co.uk/viewtopic...