I Bought Another Jag

[Racerbvd]

I don't know if is was the Vodka/NOS that I was drinking, but at a SuperBowl party the other night, I committed to buying a 95 XJ6, I pick it up on Thurs. Funny thing, because of the meds I'm on, I still can't drive, LOL. I'll be the 3rd owner, 1st was a Judge, the guy a bought it from is a lawyer. Like I really need any more cars

[HHI944]

They're not as fun to drive as a Porsche and honestly they're an electrical nightmare.................BUT my '95 XJ6 VDP is THE single most comfortable car I've ever ridden in and honestly gets pretty good mileage for a 250hp tank.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by HHI944

They're not as fun to drive as a Porsche and honestly they're an electrical nightmare.................BUT my '95 XJ6 VDP is THE single most comfortable car I've ever ridden in and honestly gets pretty good mileage for a 250hp tank.

I have a later XJR, and it is a blast, fast, comfy & fun, but I just couldn't pass on this deal (my lawyer buddy just bought a brand new XJ8) but I already own way more cars than I need I'm not sure if it was the meds, the drinks or a bet, but I'm picking it up on Thurs. When Jean finds out (she is over seas on her family biz) that I bought another car, she will be pissed, just like when I went into biz with a friend & we bought a few race cars. She wants me to get rid of shuff, not collect more.

[HHI944]

Hopefully an XJR will be my next Jag.
You can never have to many high maintenance cars

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by HHI944

Hopefully an XJR will be my next Jag.
You can never have to many high maintenance cars

The XJR hasn't been too bad, just turned 100K, and it still blows my Carrera away prices are right on them, nice ones for less than the cost od a 80s Carrera, carries 4 in comfort & style & blows most other cars off te road

If Porsche wasn't so deep in my blood, I would change, (PCA has also put a very sour taste, ***** pussies, in my system) to Jags. One of the first cars my dad crashed (wasn't his fault, some one else checked) was a 50s Jag
Of course, had I had what he had trashed (a good list) I would be set. Fortunately, he left me nothing, so I have had to work & earn all my cool toys.

[HHI944]

I haven't had much trouble (typical stuff, radiator hoses, PS lines) out of my jag and it just turned 186k. I saw an XJR devastate a mustang GT out of a light the other day.

It's a pain having to work for toys, eh?

Good luck explaining the new addition.

[Joeaksa]

Byron,

I just did the same thing! Got a "one of a kind" V-12 Jag that they made only 100 of back in the '90's and sold only in Canada. Now that its over 15 years old and due to the low number made the US is allowing for importation.

Picked it up on the Canadian/American border in Washington state and drove it home in 2.5 days last month. Smooth as can be and a real cruiser, made it 1800 miles with not one hiccup.

Jags are just like any other car in most ways, and if its taken care of from day one they will usually be reliable. If its not taken care of then later on in life it will show it.

Hope you enjoy it! Mine is a 1992 XJ, last year that Jag made that body style and this one has every option there was, special paint, the best burl wood, hand made seats and was built by hand on a special line. The car looks like new inside and out.

Joe A

[Racerbvd]

Picked it up today, a few typical problems for a car that has been sitting a few months



Now, what am I going to do with it???

[911Rob]

sell it and make money?

[trekkor]

Track it?


KT

[Racerbvd]

sell it and make money?

Most likely, as I have been trying to thin out my cars,, not get more, and everything you post a picture of your H1 gets the rusty gars myhadun

Originally Posted by trekkor

Track it?


KT

Don't think that I haven't thought about that, talked to my track partner today, I was thinking full cage & 4 race seats & belts, to take people out for thrill rides The GTA is fun,but just not me.

BTW, if you weren't clear across the country, we would talkin trade on some tile work.

[trekkor]

Maybe we should talk and I should travel...


KT

[fingpilot]

Joe and Byron;

Have a funny story about how to tell the other half about an 'impulse buy'.

My best friend in all the world (friendship based on sharing a ditch in 'Nam after both of us punching out from different planes) and I had a business that certificated airlines. We were the ones that took perfectly good money and made stuff happen that ended up with a license to operate airliners for profit. Anyone that knows the economics of the airlines knows we did a lot of rich people a really bad favor.

Nonetheless, our latest 'project' was based in Charlotte, NC. Anyone that lives there might recognize the very short-lived airline. Bill and his wife (both normally living in Dallas) had rented a really nice house for the term of this project (typically a year by the time the Catch-22) stuff was done, and I was renting a room from them. Bill was to be Director of Ops on this one, and I was Chief Pilot. We traded spots every other airline. The Catch-22 was that in order to have an airline you had to have experienced people running it from day 1. Even after granting the OpsSpecs (license to operate) we would stay on in these capacities until the locals were deemed fit (by us and the FAA) to run the thing themselves, but 6 months was the going rate.

Bill and I were quite often out on the road (he dealing with the certification branch of the FAA in DC, and me out in the desert pulling airplanes out of mothballs).

His wife was usually the typist / receptionist for the constant flood of phone calls about pretty much everything. As this process matured, people were added to accommodate the workload. Needless to say, quite often Bill and I lost track of each other's whereabouts and any request from him to me or vice-versa was done without question.

I know long story, but hang in there.

Bill calls me from Dallas and wants to know when the next time I was going to be in Charlotte. Tuesday next week, with an MD87 if the Marana, AZ idiots can get it together. OK, he says. He needs my help with something. He has bought a '63 Corvette in pristeen shape, but his wife will dismember him (you know which member) if she ever finds out. He had just convinced her last week that the MiniCooperS was really for her (4'10" and reaalllly blonde). So there was NOOOO way she was gonna go for a Corvette. He had to get it out of Texas, like yesterday to avoid taxes, so it was ALREADY on a transporter to be delivered to the hangar in Charotte in my name just about the time I got there with the MD87. "Mike, tell her anything, just cover for me until I can get back and think of something to say" Sir, Yes Sir. End of call.

Week goes by, I have completely forgotten about the 'Vette, that's how full your mind is when you are flying an airplane that was in 45 pieces strewn about the hangars in Marana a week ago. I land in Charlotte, the squawk list is over 50 items, and this plane (the first for the airline) has to be painted in Arkansas, all the squawks worked off, and presented to the FAA for conformity checks in another two weeks (almost impossible). BUT! It was the first actual, tangible sign that $hat is actually happening to all the people who are writing checks, doing godless paperwork and pulling 20-hour days to make this all happen, and there is actually a crowd standing in the hangar as I taxi up and shutdown. Of course, open the doors, front and rear, APU fired up, A/C on full blast and everyone gets a chance to see the bird.

Bill's wife walks into the cockpit and says, there's a guy with a semi in the parking lot with a Corvette looking for me and my signature. I recover ASAP and go out and sign for the car. It truly is pristeen. I drive it thru security, and into the hangar, parking it discreetly over in a corner, and putting the car cover on it.

That night, when I finally get home, Bill's wife, as she is serving dinner asks me if she is ever going to see Bill again, as he has been ensconced in DC for almost 3 weeks. Then she asks when I had time to buy a Corvette in all of my travels. I explained that I had bought it online, and was really looking forward to one of those beautiful spring days in NC that everyone talks about for a nice drive. She gets this really stern look (for a blonde) and says I am really going to have to lock it somewhere secure and especially keep Bill away from it because he has wanted one EXACTLY like that all his life, and boy was he gonna be jealous! She said that, in fact, after dinner, she was going to drive me to the airport and make me drive it back to the garage so it would be safe cuz I was gone so much. We did exactly that.

Couple of days later, I blast off with the MD87 to Little Rock for a quickie paint job, leaving the 'Vette in the 3 car garage at home. I was gonna stay with the airplane, cuz constant beer and pizza for the paint/prep crew can shave days off of a paint job. I didn't really say that.

I had left EXPLICIT instructions with Bill's wife about hiding the keys to the 'Vette somewhere he would NEVER find them, and that I was making her responsible for not letting him drive my car before I had a chance to. In fact, I told her I didn't even want him sitting in it, touching it, drooling on it, nada..... I told her he was gonna concoct all kinds of lies to get her to let him drive it, he might even dummy up paperwork, but it would all be just so he could rob me of my first drive in North Carolina. I made as serious a face as I could (to a blonde ex-Braniff F/A) and warned of dire consequences. She looked like she was going to comply as I taxiied away in the MD.

You know what happened.

She's laughing, he's crying, all in the same phone call to me in Arkansas. She told me 'he even tried to convince her that the car was his, showed her reciepts that even looked legit, just like I said he would, but Michael, your car is safe.'

He and I still laugh at that one, and yes, I waited until I got home a week later to tell her the truth.

He admitted that he had been sleeping in it for the last two nights before I got there.

[kycarguy 935]

Bryon, Did you at least offer the guy a trade first?? hehe

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Now, what am I going to do with it???

I suggest dropping a stupid engine in it...




That's Sue's dad's recently finished '72 XJ6 with a Lincoln Mark XIII 4.6L V8 monster CRAMMED in.

It's now an XJ4.6HO

[Dueller]

Ok, jag guys..talk me thru this one. Wifey needs a new car. She drives about 10K per year in short hoops around town, to/from pub, etc. She's always wanted an XK8 convertible. I know they get crappy gas mileage. I know maintenance can be expensive. But there seem to be a few nice low mikeage (under50K) 99-02 cars popping up in so florida for $15K or less.

So what's the real 911 on an XK8 for the missus dueller?

[HHI944]

Looks pretty sharp, it doesn't even have the obligatory 'old person in a grossly over-lengthened vehicle' dents and scrapes on the corners.

[kycarguy 935]

I am seeing the newer little Ford Jag's around here used for under $10,000. I don't really know anything about them except they started showing up on a few of the dealers lots.

[jhynesrockmtn]

I've had a few XJ series III and II Jags. Sold this one last Spring back to the guy I bought it from to finance my race car purchase. That one hurt, very rare XJ6C in close to non restored show condition:



Ex has a newer 2000 XJ8. I think they can be great buys but hers has been a lemon. The only thing that saved us was it was still under warranty when most of the (*&^ happened. It's got 80k on it and the engine was replaced under warranty by the factory prior to 20k and my/our ownership, rear end, ABS controller, a bunch of other little stuff and she just recently dumped $6k into a dead tranny. Sucks dumping $6k into a car worth $8 to 10k. Just like anything else, PPI buy someone who knows them, maintenance history, etc.

[Racerbvd]

Well, I'm thinking that I don't need another toy/project to play with now.