Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Be positive it should get further then just "up the road

Good point.

I'll at least aim for "back again".

three bikes on the back

Let us know how many of those you use over the christmas break ;)

Well, I was gonna write the same about the first one: it's not much, but from an engineering perspective [mitre tester would say something here about hoop stress] - it's enough.

And my $2c on the endless navel gazing / wallet speculating, an older car will cost money to keep going, if it's exotic or hi-po, more, so deal with it. If you like the fucking car, buy it, drive it and smile. It's not an investment unless you are have deep pockets, heated storage, and distant horizons. But it is your damn car.

Also, since I have absorbed so much Slivovice, Sekt, Pilsner Urquell and Becherovka, and it's all done on the 24th here: Merry Christmas :)

Only two of them are mine, so good odds I'll use both.

You in the land of the pole?

There was a hole in one of the fuel tanks

I didn't realise they had more than one! Could you cross feed like in a plane? ;)

I've heard about leaking fuel tanks in XJ-S's. Mental check list includes a good sniff around...

As I understand it your XJ6 would have had one of the last XK6 engines, replaced by the AJ6 (which powered the 3.6/4 litre XJ-S's). The straight sixes seem to have a good reputation for reliability, which might explain why some XJ-S owners report similar experiences to you (tales of the X-JS actually being more reliable than the sensible, modern daily driver) while others (V12 owners?) reckon it's very unreliable and there are lots of known V12 issues. Actually the guy I spoke to has a V12. Engine choice doesn't fix the rust of course...

So I reckon best plan is find a good AJ6 engined one and hope. All academic right now as building project means I don't have the money, even for a cheap one.

Close, but neni cigaru

Czech?

One of my dads jags wasrestored by a classic car mag and the restorer (the company) still managed to fuck things up even when they should know what they are doing.

Personally I would buy the cheapest decent shell and fucked mechanical then get the car stripped. Shot blasted, then welded and painted. Then decent new loom, re fitted interior and building a new engine with much closer tolerances and using modern kit, such as brakes suspension and transmission.

Or maybe the Lynx eventer

Bingo! :)

Great country and amazing people...Saying that last time I went was over 2 decades ago....

Amazingly I saw two 914's today. One was a very modified lime green one, wide arches and very sticky looking track rubber and number plate flt six. Presumably a flat 6. Next one looked stock in that classic orange and fuchs wheels. They both looked good but I'd take the stock one. Nice to see them still driving around.

Guess I'm giving this a go tomorrow...

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I got it too! The manual book is massive. Don't want to start it until I'm back in catford in case I lose bits but god it's tempting.

I've not opened the box yet

To which there is some serious heft

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Yas. I got the 911 GT3 kit too, but similarly waiting to get back to Surbs again to build, got real car to build while I'm here for the next few days

My little half-brother also has that gt3 kit. Nice father son project I guess.
Impressive brand building too.
But then my dad has a serious porsche thing going on, including a stupid exhaust radio, since he has a wife that supports ownership of such cars.

That is amazing. Where were you?

The flared arch one is probably a modded 914 but there is a chance it's a factory 916 which came with a 6 pot from a 911, albeit the weedy T spec.