Nice, but too 'boy-racer'. I was thinking something more timeless and classy, like this (but in coupe form):Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Proper Jag.
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Nice, but too 'boy-racer'. I was thinking something more timeless and classy, like this (but in coupe form):Proper Jag.
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Looks good, but the steering wheel is on the wrong side. Which model is that then?
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Note sure, mate. I just put 'classic Jaguar car' into a Google search and got that.
It's what a proper Jag looks like though, with that lovely leather and walnut interior
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
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You get all that leather and walnut in the older Bentleys too, and they don't cost a fortune to buy.
I have a customer who recently had a five car garage built to house his three vintage Bentleys, Rover P4 and Jag MK. 10. Total value is probably less than the garage cost.
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Somewhere round there.
On one of our road trips this summer we drove past that spot looking for Dungeon Lane and small boys with caps.
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Somewhat late to this thread, but as my late father drove either Jaguars or Daimlers for most of his life, and he would have been horrified to see what the 'new' Jaguar company have come up with!
To me it looks like a mad cross between a Batmobile:
and Lady Penelope's Rolls-Royce designed by 'Brains' out of Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds:
BUT worse!!
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The sort of car's my father drove were:Nice, but too 'boy-racer'. I was thinking something more timeless and classy, like this (but in coupe form):
Marco.
Daimler 2.5 litre V8
(image: Wikipedia)
Daimler Sovereign
(image: Wikipedia)
A Daimler 'Double Six" 5.3 litre V12
(image: Autovercity)
And a couple of Mark 2 Jaguar cars, looking like the one Inspector Morse drove around Oxford:
(image: Wikipedia)
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Nice, Barry. Your dad had class!
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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I imagine Barry's dad looking a lot like Terry-Thomas.
Personally I thought 'Peak Jag' was the XJ6 particularly the coupe variant. Ofc the E type was very cool but maybe a bit too Flash Harry for me personally.
Agree about the Batmobile/Thunderbirds thing, they were my first impressions of it too. Hopefully they have some more conservative designs to come, but I can understand the need to have a flagship car that draws interest and attention to the brand, good or bad.
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Ah yes - the Jaguar XJ6. I think my father drove one for a short time in the '90s. From memory I think it was a Series 3:
He didn't have it for long and I never drove it. The only car of his I ever drove was his Daimler Double Six 5.3 litre V12 petrol guzzler.
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