A Tale of Two Jaaaaaaaags (/Clarkson)
I like cars and I like fixing things. The day job is namby-pamby fixing things with a keyboard but I really prefer fixing things with hammers and spanners.
eBay fever grabs me one day and I accidentally buy a 16 year old Jaguar XJ6. Its under a grand and I reason that if anything goes wrong I'll enjoy fixing it. I've got another car so its not the end of the world if it breaks down.

About one month into my Jaguar ownership there is an incident and it ends up slightly bent at the front with a broken radiator. Although saddened by the deformed shape of the classic motor I vow to repair it and set about removing the bent bits for replacement or repair. Great fun.
Then, as luck would have it an identical car appears on eBay for a few hundred pounds. Same colour and everything.
I buy the identical Jag intending to use it for parts then sell or scrap the left over bits. I am known as Two-Jags at pub.
Of course I now have an unbent working Jag which I drive around for 18 months whilst the original broken Jag lays in bits in the car park , sad, neglected, and annoying the neighbours.

But its not Project Failed, its Project Renewed as the second Jag failed its MOT recently meaning I now have two broken Jags and a new Project to build one working Jag!

I'm sure the new project will soon get underway, and be a great success and be finished by Christmas.

Oh No it won't!
OH YES IT WILL!
Oh No it won't!
OH YES IT WILL!
Oh No it won't!
OH YES IT WILL!
(Rich T has a clever and witty sig, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 17:33, 3 replies)

Two-Jags
The cousin of Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson, I presume?
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 17:36, closed)

Jags are for xmas...
A few years ago I paid top-dollar for a 1983 Daimler Sovereign with 33K on the clock and an excellent interior and a good exterior. After it's second MOT fail and a grand or two spent on it I gave up and sold it for scrap.
Great cars, but unless you're prepared to pay 20K for a KWE, or spend hours or hundreds maintaining them, they're really not worth it.
That said, I'm glad I owned one -- just wish I had bought one cheap.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 4 Dec 2009, 18:17, closed)

I love 'em
I'm another "2 Jags", but my project 32 year old XJ6 sits in my warehouse at work taking up space. I should get shot of it,but I can't, it gave me so much enjoyment when it was running (ie. before the bottoms rusted out of the fuel tanks). My XJ8 is great, but there's nothing I can do to it but polish it, it's too hi-tech, the old XJ6 is something you can get the spanners on though.

Until you've owned one you won't understand how special Jags used to be (until they sold their souls and brought out fucking diesels and the abortion that is the X-type).



The smell of the leather even gives me a boner.
(Rsoles, Sat 5 Dec 2009, 20:13, closed)