The best/most interesting car you’ve ever owned

[Rita_Poon]

Got the magnet, I've even got my Amazon endo-scope for looking in rocker-boxes and down petrol tanks...a noted source of shiz.
Door pillars, floors, boot floor, front and rear window bottom corners.
I'm taking my trolley jack too.
Suspension top bushes have a tendency to go soft and 'crumble'

My biggest worry besides mrs degsy going ape, is where to put it while I move on the landrover

A posts? anywhere water usually collects, any previous accident damage, MOT history? What does the specialist forum say about this model? Usual gremlins, after market improvements? Has it lived in the garage or not?
Why are you fancying this and offing the landy?

 

[Rita_Poon]

You've heard of buyers remorse?
I often get buyers reluctance!

 

[chrismpw]

I'm going to look at this on Sunday Au$6500 1994 XJ 40.
seller promises a whole lot of verifiable paper work for jobs done, history etc.
It's been up for 12 weeks now.
Subject to a good crawl around, poke, lift of mats for damp etc and a test drive
How low should I go.
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Lovely car that. I had one around the 2000s ... I went for a gallon of oil that was just past a used car dealer and there was this xj40 winking at me on a forecourt. It was at that perfect age where it was old enough to be dirt cheap (£2k) but still in good nick.
It did need a new front subframe though, after what I THOUGHT was paint on initial inspection, was actually the foam infil ... the steel having flaked away. I got a replacement from a scrappy.

Smooth, powerful fast and oh so comfy. One day it was being reversed off the mot ramp (pass) and a brake pipe burst (ah.... fail!).

Once home (crimped the burst pipe to make the ½ mile trip) I jacked it up and looked to replace the Corroded pipes. It was mid winter, drizzling, cold and suddenly I didn't want to spend hours lying under 2 tonnes of car.

I later sold it to a 16years kid in my tutor group for a few quid. He wanted a project to do with his dad. A few years later I caught up with him and aaked - he said he loved driving it until it was written off after something pulled out in front of him.

A mate if his quietly informed me that the thing that "pulled out" was a bus stop.

Wish I'd persevered and kept it really.

 

[chrismpw]

Got the magnet, I've even got my Amazon endo-scope for looking in rocker-boxes and down petrol tanks...a noted source of shiz.
Door pillars, floors, boot floor, front and rear window bottom corners.
I'm taking my trolley jack too.
Suspension top bushes have a tendency to go soft and 'crumble'

My biggest worry besides mrs degsy going ape, is where to put it while I move on the landrover

Where to put it .... Google "carcoon " .... don't know if they're available in Aus though. They're an inflatable garage, a bit like a zeppelin and will protect from rain, sun, hail etc. It filters air in and provides a constant throughput of air. Also keeps the battery charged.

I got one for my Daimler V8 when I got the Jag last summer. After 3 months in the carcoon, I got the Daimler out to go to a show. It was spotless- not a spec of dust to be seen. I went in for my lunch and when I came out an hour later, no word of exaggeration, not a single panel had been untouched by bird crap!! Every fricking where, like they saw it and parried ffs!

 

[degsy]

A posts? anywhere water usually collects, any previous accident damage, MOT history? What does the specialist forum say about this model? Usual gremlins, after market improvements? Has it lived in the garage or not?
Why are you fancying this and offing the landy?

A couple of reasons really;
1) Space; 3 into 2 don't go, I've got no room in the garage with my V8 rover project car and mrs degsys car...
stangely enough she doesn't take to putting her corolla on the grass over the road everynight
2) The nearly 25 yr old landrover discovery 2 is - like me - starting to show it's age, nothing terminal but I've had to spend 25% of its nominal resale value, which is pushing it a bit.
It's all fixed now but I've lost the 'trust it' factor.
3) I'm pretty much over full on 4x4 obstacles courses (- no pun intended.) and nightly camp set up and pack up with the roof top tent.
There's still nothing better than sitting round a camp fire sipping single malt listening to music and talking wham, it's just all the other stuff that goes with it.

Trouble is at first glance this car looks pretty good, but it's come along on the wrong side of Christmas / summer.

 

[Rita_Poon]

A couple of reasons really;
1) Space; 3 into 2 don't go, I've got no room in the garage with my V8 rover project car and mrs degsys car...
stangely enough she doesn't take to putting her corolla on the grass over the road everynight
2) The nearly 25 yr old landrover discovery 2 is - like me - starting to show it's age, nothing terminal but I've had to spend 25% of its nominal resale value, which is pushing it a bit.
It's all fixed now but I've lost the 'trust it' factor.
3) I'm pretty much over full on 4x4 obstacles courses (- no pun intended.) and nightly camp set up and pack up with the roof top tent.
There's still nothing better than sitting round a camp fire sipping single malt listening to music and talking wham, it's just all the other stuff that goes with it.

Trouble is at first glance this car looks pretty good, but it's come along on the wrong side of Christmas / summer.

You've heard of buyers remorse
I often get buyers reluctance,

Ten Four Kemosabe.

 

[cooperman]

A 1989 Fiat Tipo 1.4 sport … absolute flying machine … fastest thing on the road… used to cut out when I slowed down approaching roundabouts etc but if you flew the clutch and floored it then it’d kick back into action…. Was my first ever car in 2000 and both loved and hated it… but for £400 it was alright for a bit

Brilliant cars in so many ways... Rust on them was atrocious iirc

 

[COYBL25]

Where to put it .... Google "carcoon " .... don't know if they're available in Aus though. They're an inflatable garage, a bit like a zeppelin and will protect from rain, sun, hail etc. It filters air in and provides a constant throughput of air. Also keeps the battery charged.

I got one for my Daimler V8 when I got the Jag last summer. After 3 months in the carcoon, I got the Daimler out to go to a show. It was spotless- not a spec of dust to be seen. I went in for my lunch and when I came out an hour later, no word of exaggeration, not a single panel had been untouched by bird crap!! Every fricking where, like they saw it and parried ffs!

A young lad on the industrial estate where I get a lot the work done to my cars, has a massive storage unit, filled with high end classics and super cars, that live all year round in carcoons.

It’s an incredible sight to see all these amazing cars, all lined up in rows, cocooned in their own inflatable “ tents “

Lord knows what he charges, but if you can afford a Ferrari or a McLaren, I don’t really think money is an object.

There’s one old boy who’s got half a dozen old Mercs in their, that his missus has no idea about

 

[chrismpw]

A young lad on the industrial estate where I get a lot the work done to my cars, has a massive storage unit, filled with high end classics and super cars, that live all year round in carcoons.

It’s an incredible sight to see all these amazing cars, all lined up in rows, cocooned in their own inflatable “ tents “

Lord knows what he charges, but if you can afford a Ferrari or a McLaren, I don’t really think money is an object.

There’s one old boy who’s got half a dozen old Mercs in their, that his missus has no idea about

Why do we keep things from our wives? Here's why - they hate us enjoying things.

I wrote a complaint email to an insurers because they ignored something I submitted and only told me it wasn't accepted, when I queried why there had been no response some time later. I got a reply apologising and admitting that they should have got back to me and offered £50 by way of a sweetner and that they would sort the issue forthwith. Very happy with that.

Like a total idiot, in my moment of delight I told the missus. Her immediate response is that my good fortune should be hers and I should treat her to a meal. This is the same person who immediately tried to give her raffle winnings, chocolates, wine, tickets to the Air Tattoo etc. to somebody else.

Since marriage I am simply not allowed to enjoy good fortune.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Why do we keep things from our wives? Here's why - they hate us enjoying things.

I wrote a complaint email to an insurers because they ignored something I submitted and only told me it wasn't accepted, when I queried why there had been no response some time later. I got a reply apologising and admitting that they should have got back to me and offered £50 by way of a sweetner and that they would sort the issue forthwith. Very happy with that.

Like a total idiot, in my moment of delight I told the missus. Her immediate response is that my good fortune should be hers and I should treat her to a meal. This is the same person who immediately tried to give her raffle winnings, chocolates, wine, tickets to the Air Tattoo etc. to somebody else.

Since marriage I am simply not allowed to enjoy good fortune.

Was it a shotgun wedding?

 

[chrismpw]

Was it a shotgun wedding?

No! She was a delight until the legal stamp came down onto the certificate!

 

[Rita_Poon]

No! She was a delight until the legal stamp came down onto the certificate!

Oldest trick in the book. Gotta think real creative to get out free now...

 

[degsy]

Where to put it .... Google "carcoon " .... don't know if they're available in Aus though. They're an inflatable garage, a bit like a zeppelin and will protect from rain, sun, hail etc. It filters air in and provides a constant throughput of air. Also keeps the battery charged.

I got one for my Daimler V8 when I got the Jag last summer. After 3 months in the carcoon, I got the Daimler out to go to a show. It was spotless- not a spec of dust to be seen. I went in for my lunch and when I came out an hour later, no word of exaggeration, not a single panel had been untouched by bird crap!! Every fricking where, like they saw it and parried ffs!

Yep they're available approx £1200 ...

 

[COYBL25]

Yep they're available approx £1200 ...

Then you have to run them too, as they’re permanently on !

 

[chrismpw]

Yep they're available approx £1200 ...

I paid 500 for mine on the 2nd hand market. A bit blotchy, but works fine.