That’s where I went, soon as I read Tempest.

It’s actually quite a handsome “transition styling” between the excesses of the late fifties and the more restrained and clean styling of the mid sixties. I like old European sports cars, but this looks something you could take the whole family out on a Sunday afternoon, a great “ice cream car”.  And you can stick it…

Who else kept hearing Mona Lisa Vito describing the Pontiac Tempest and the Buick Skylark while reading this article?

Agreed - also why the VW Phaeton is my favorite luxo-barge. So delightfully non-descript on the outside, but luxury to make King Midas happy on the inside. I don’t need to shout.

Fair point.  You never know what’s going to be the final straw with someone or how they’ll react.  Obviously this guy wasn’t all there.

Here, let me help you out, as I came here to post the same - they built one. Which relatively speaking, is probably not as out of proportion of Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow to Bentley T-series production as you might think. They just did not build very many Bentleys in that era.

Would rather have a Seville

That’s an ugly Crown Vic.

There’s the car, and there’s the grille. The sheet metal is understatedly handsome. The grille is iconic. Put them together and it’s a parody of itself, like sticking one of those fake Rolls grilles on a Beetle. As for this one, it’s much, much farther down the depreciation curve than the seller wants to admit.

The best is when your server comes back to your table with your food, right after taking a ‘quick smoke break’. They smell like death.

It reads to me like Becker sustained a head injury in his accident. I don’t think this was a two-years-long grudge.  I think some wires got crossed.

Maybe he was right about the quality of the work?  But a normal person goes back and asks for it to be made right, instead of simmering for two years and then murdering the owner.

It is possible that it was shit work, however. That happens from time to time (as does overcharging). We see the stories on this very site every so often.

This all could have been prevented if there had been a third person with a larger, higher-caliber gun who could have defused the situation. 

Yep, that is fair. Old Brits cars are not for the faint of wallet, that is for damn sure. This would definitely need a good once or twice over and hopefully from a E-type expert of sorts.

Instant ND for the “Let;’s go Brandon” sticker. Immediate red flag that the seller is a moron and thus the mechanicals on whatever toy this thing is will be suspect.

I’m fortunate that I inherited this example. My grandfather never drove it in winter, stored it properly and made sure the consumables were regularly swapped out for new. (Having all the paperwork since purchase made picking through other people’s work much easier!)

I’m not surprised that anyone selling a Jag of this era (or most cars of this age and value) posts an ad that’s short on words where it counts. But that just leaves too much open for interpretation and I need to assume the worst.

NP on this one, I’ve had the good fortune to be able to drive a series 2 a couple of times and it was glorious. We had a 1969 for sale for awhile and since I did my homework on the specifics of that car I ended up getting all the leads and test drives. It had been upgraded to three carbs (originally went to two…

There’s a small smile thinking about any Edsel linked to a Jag...