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whoooops sorry buddy. On the bread line are we? I used to own a 420G, 4.2, Loved that car. It would sit on the rd @ 100MPH all day, providing you has shares in Mobil Oil!
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Until very recently I had a 1967 unrestored, but mint Jaguar 420 compact, manual o/d on wires. At 100mph you could actually see the fuel gauge moving. Years ago there was an old deaf guy who made a manifold and sat 8 inch and a 1/4 SU's on a side valve Ford V8 coupe, it ran perfectly, and his favourite trick was to stand a coin on edge on the radiator, and screw the idle back to less than 200rpm without the coin moving.
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Torres, Yes, my Fergie is as yours. Have had it since 1988 and it has never let me down. Use it for slashing only. My 1989 XJ40 Sovereign, with just 115000 Km is injected and surprisingly good on fuel. Around town, about 13 litres/100 Km. Highway less than 10 litres / 100 Km with excellent handling and ride qualities. I have had the Jag since April 1998, bought it with all documentation and only 52000 Km (One of the last 3.6 litre XJ40's to be Australian delivered 1989). It is original and everything works.
BTW, my 1937 Plymouth is a six cylinder side valve of 201 cubic inch capacity. A selling point, in 1937, was the ability to accelerate away smoothly from as low as 8 MPH in top gear. Driven sensibly it gives about 23 MPG.
BTW, my 1937 Plymouth is a six cylinder side valve of 201 cubic inch capacity. A selling point, in 1937, was the ability to accelerate away smoothly from as low as 8 MPH in top gear. Driven sensibly it gives about 23 MPG.
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Standing a coin on the radiator at 200rpm and not loosing it is impressive as long as you do not expect hairraising performance.
Personally i like my rides to be wild like my women, which is why i chose a cam in my big block 454 Chev about the size of your crank in your Jag. Do not even think about leaning on the guards when it is idling, you might just loose a kidney. At half throttle it will light up the bags non stop for over 300 meters and it will make a u-turn on a fifty cent coin.
Fuel economy?.... forget it! I only drive it on tuesdays when it is 10 cents cheaper
Personally i like my rides to be wild like my women, which is why i chose a cam in my big block 454 Chev about the size of your crank in your Jag. Do not even think about leaning on the guards when it is idling, you might just loose a kidney. At half throttle it will light up the bags non stop for over 300 meters and it will make a u-turn on a fifty cent coin.
Fuel economy?.... forget it! I only drive it on tuesdays when it is 10 cents cheaper
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ahhh yr just jealous 'PF', you obvioulsy haven't got anything to wave yr dick at
, nice cock tho, big too
'Wormole' I didn't take my 420G beyond a 100 mph (those days no speed limit on a lot of open rds) 'cause I got confused which guage was the fuel one, you see the tacho & the fuel guage where I think interconnected at very high speed
'Old Fella' I reckon the last proper Jag was the series 2 XJ6, after that they went down hil esspecially when Ford took them over.
I know this thread is heading towards being Nazified by the mods but b4 it does what's the point of having a car that goes from zero to God knows what in under a micro second when you can only go as fast as 110k's on most freeways? With a very fast car yr only as fast as it takes for the slower car to reach the next set of traffic lights, in the burbs that's only a matter of a few seconds Fast cars do however help keep me in a job.
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, nice cock tho, big too'Wormole' I didn't take my 420G beyond a 100 mph (those days no speed limit on a lot of open rds) 'cause I got confused which guage was the fuel one, you see the tacho & the fuel guage where I think interconnected at very high speed
'Old Fella' I reckon the last proper Jag was the series 2 XJ6, after that they went down hil esspecially when Ford took them over.
I know this thread is heading towards being Nazified by the mods but b4 it does what's the point of having a car that goes from zero to God knows what in under a micro second when you can only go as fast as 110k's on most freeways? With a very fast car yr only as fast as it takes for the slower car to reach the next set of traffic lights, in the burbs that's only a matter of a few seconds
Fast cars do however help keep me in a job.CW
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Hair raising performance is of no use to me, I'm bald.
I once drove a real Jaguar XK D type, and I have also had a drive of an ex LeMans Ferrari 250LM either of which would give your big block Chevy a fright.
I once drove a real Jaguar XK D type, and I have also had a drive of an ex LeMans Ferrari 250LM either of which would give your big block Chevy a fright.
that D-Type didnt live on a farm in the Waikato perchance?
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Originally Posted by sms777
Standing a coin on the radiator at 200rpm and not loosing it is impressive as long as you do not expect hairraising performance.
If there's any truth to it, it would seem the 2 are far from mutually exclusive...
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When I drove the D-Type it lived in Hawkes Bay, but it later went to an eccentric old gentleman on a farm which I thought was nearer to Auckland than the Waikato. As it was the only D-Type resident in N.Z. it has to be the same car.
I understand that the old fellow's estate sent the car to be auctioned in the U.K. where I think it made the best part of a million pounds, It has since been fully restored, and is raced by it's new owner in classic events.
I understand that the old fellow's estate sent the car to be auctioned in the U.K. where I think it made the best part of a million pounds, It has since been fully restored, and is raced by it's new owner in classic events.
RadioSaigon
Well....Yes!
If i mounted the Merlin's two stage supercharger on to that sidevalve V8 Ford i am sure it would give the same hair raising performance as my big block Chev and the coin would still stand on top of the radiator.
But that's cheating!
If i mounted the Merlin's two stage supercharger on to that sidevalve V8 Ford i am sure it would give the same hair raising performance as my big block Chev and the coin would still stand on top of the radiator.
But that's cheating!
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yeah yr prob right there 'OF' but there was a time where cars where real cars. Holden haven't made a decent car since the HR days. Ford finished making strong quality cars at the end of the XY series & Chysler, well they never did share the same spot light as the other two in any of their range I reckon. Like I said as for Jaguar they went sth with quality after the XJ series 2, from there on reliability & poor workmanship lead them now to what we see now, just another mass produced ordinary car.
The Japs have it all figured out, mech the best, reliability near perfect, just that they never really could build a car or it's interior that was to remain classic in every sense of the word like an early Jag. Personal opinon of course
Am surprised this thread is still running, the Mods must be alseep!
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The Japs have it all figured out, mech the best, reliability near perfect, just that they never really could build a car or it's interior that was to remain classic in every sense of the word like an early Jag. Personal opinon of course
Am surprised this thread is still running, the Mods must be alseep!
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Capt Wally.
Your right about the Japs, but wrong about Jags. The series 2 XJs were probably the worst car Jaguar ever built. They were produced while Jaguar were under the control of British Leyland, the quality was rubbish, and just about anything that could go wrong with a car went wrong with these models. I know. I've owned several of them.
I agree though that they were the last Jaguar with real character, and class.
Your right about the Japs, but wrong about Jags. The series 2 XJs were probably the worst car Jaguar ever built. They were produced while Jaguar were under the control of British Leyland, the quality was rubbish, and just about anything that could go wrong with a car went wrong with these models. I know. I've owned several of them.
I agree though that they were the last Jaguar with real character, and class.
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Oh well 'wormole' we can have our opinions that's why we live in this society, (Mods excluded of course).
I don't believe it was quality that let the earlier jags down they had it everwhere, strong bodies, wood & leather everywhere built like tanks it was reliability via some pretty poor designs that let 'em down. You can have a terrific 'quality' item but with a poor design it's going to give problems regardless of it's quality, this is what the earlier Jags had I believe. I know to some degree this to be true 'cause I cut my teeth on during my apprenticeship on a lot of pommy stuff, mainly BMC & Jaguar,Leyland etc hence I owned a Jag when I 'thought' I knew best! That was done all the while I watched planes fly over head & thought yep I wanna be rich like them guys !!!
Anyway with a restored jag it's more about looks than anything else & the Jag beats 'em all in that area, if you want reliability go buy a Jap car !
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I don't believe it was quality that let the earlier jags down they had it everwhere, strong bodies, wood & leather everywhere built like tanks it was reliability via some pretty poor designs that let 'em down. You can have a terrific 'quality' item but with a poor design it's going to give problems regardless of it's quality, this is what the earlier Jags had I believe. I know to some degree this to be true 'cause I cut my teeth on during my apprenticeship on a lot of pommy stuff, mainly BMC & Jaguar,Leyland etc hence I owned a Jag when I 'thought' I knew best!
That was done all the while I watched planes fly over head & thought yep I wanna be rich like them guys !!!Anyway with a restored jag it's more about looks than anything else & the Jag beats 'em all in that area, if you want reliability go buy a Jap car !
CW
