You hit the nail on the head there. Nicer when someone else owns it.

Nope. Free isn’t low enough. It will beguile you with promises of luxury and prestige, that’s how they get into your house. Then something small will fail. A light globe perhaps. You will think “oh sure, that’s no biggy” but it’s all a ruse. The car is conditioning you to accept failure and justify paying for a…

I can almost guarantee the lower mileage is because they couldn’t move under their own power for lengthy period of time. 

The selling experience is the tough part for me. Nervously hoping it holds together for long enough to survive a test drive. The potential buyer will ask “do you have service records?” to which I reply “yes, a complete folder of invoices from every visit to the shop from new”, I begin to sweat imagining the horror…

I own an immaculately maintained Jag from this era. It’s shit. To get to 200K the owner has been spending some major bank on it. Now they realise that the last 5 years of non-scheduled repairs could have bought them a new car and we see another for sale ad. I say non-scheduled because the failures will be more…

Nope. The block is Ford. Assorted electronics and ancillaries are Ford. Everything is joined together with turds rolled in glitter and Jag badges. It’s the unicorn shit glue that hold the machine together that fails. Not the machine.

As a current owner owner of a top of the range example of this era of Jag. Run. Run far. Once you’ve though you are far enough away, salt the earth and keep running. We’ve had a few of this era in the family. All from new. All were great for the first 10 years and then started increasingly frequent failures. Nothing…

Back in the day I used to use two 3x300x300mm aluminium sheets with copper grease between, the measurements were taken with brick line fixed to a set of jack stands and measure with a steel ruler. Worked beautifully.

Yep, same with my Jag X-type. A/C compressor control valve jammed after a couple of 100f days of sitting in the car park outside my office, dropped all the windows on the way home. Buffeting air plus soft headliner adhesive trying to hold deteriorating underlay foam and I now got the sags.

In Australia our Tercels got the 4A motor. There’s a lot of them driving around with 7A swaps and 4A-GE/GZE swaps.

6401, like Northam?

Thanks jerk. Now I need new pants.

When you rob either of them you end up with loads of tools along with all of the team members watches, phones and wallets. I’d seriously doubt they touched tires and cars.

Mine is a Toyota Aurion. Looks as boring as a Camry but a little bigger and has a decently powerful V6 up front. TRD did have a supercharged version but apparently they like to eat gearboxes and the regular NA version still has 200kw so it’s not slow.

The first bike I ever bought and fully owned was a 1980 Yamaha SR250. I bought it when I was 17/18. It was all mine, not a borrowed friends bike or a ratty old farm bike but a bike I paid my hard earned for and loved dearly. At about age 25 the garage had 3 or 4 other bikes and a few cars so the SR was sold on to a…

First was around 6 or 7 sitting on Dads lap while steering our landcruiser around the farm, graduated to Go-Karts and ATVs a year or so later, then added small capacity motorbikes friends had on their farms. By 10 was pinching parents cars to go joy riding around the farm when they weren’t looking, at 14 was using the…

I think his tires were sleeved with PVC... or it was on the rims with no tires... I can’t even imaging one of those with all 4 tires soaked in diesel spinning anything unless it’s in snow with all the nannys on holiday.

Something is only worth what people are willing to pay for it. A 2 year waiting list for these cars seems to indicate they are worth $500k+ each.

I once borrowed a friends E63 to do some touring around Germany. On the autobahn just out of Munich I floored it on the on-ramp only to be buzzed by a C63 Black that was much faster than I had expected. Seconds later a Weismann came past and went around the C63 like it was standing still. It was memorable.

Buy the truck, paint it refrigerator white and call it a work vehicle.