Jaguar - Another Iconic Brand Consigned to the Dustheap of Woke Fuckups

[Wat_Tyler]

Wat's latest drag-it-home from 400+ miles away:

 

[HisArpy]

It's Boy Shit - not Lit Libturd pansy pussified shit. You know, like shootin'. Guys, steel, grime, a bit of grease and some oil, some smells, and some old school blood if you ding your knuckles. There's wrenching and welding and painting and sewing and working with steel and glass and rubber bits, sanding and prepping and tuning and learning and meeting new people who can help and a few who just get in the way. I think you'd like it. Go meet some car folks first and hang out and have a beer and toalk about Stuff. Gizmo Stuff. It's about the Gizmoness.

This doesn't work if your friends are only interested in game boys and online dating.

 

[AceDesSpades]

I knew a guy who started refinishing wood furniture and ended up with an upholstery shop.

He used to tell me stories about the war: Korea.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

This doesn't work if your friends are only interested in game boys and online dating.

Mommy keeps Her Preciouses in the basement. This stuff takes place out of doors and in converted barns and garages and lots of places. There was a piece on youTube about some guys working on stuff and the shop owner had a big standard poodle who helped out.


None of the beer was Bud Lite either . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I knew a guy who started refinishing wood furniture and ended up with an upholstery shop.

He used to tell me stories about the war: Korea.

When Wat gets a welder, people will find out.


He will build it and they will come . . . .

 

[drobert44]

Waaaa, I miss my 75 mgb, used to work at British Motors of Monterey

 

[AceDesSpades]

Just please do not do lawn art, unless you want to cut up the shuttlecocks on the Nelson lawn...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Just please do not do lawn art, unless you want to cut up the shuttlecocks on the Nelson lawn...

Just garden gnomes full of Tannerite . . . .

 

[AceDesSpades]

Put warning labels on them that contain the phrase: double-dawg dare

 

[Lance_Castro]

I always liked the smell of the seat hides and woolen carpets in Jags, along with the leaper, the road cadence of their 3 liter straight six and the dual fill caps on XJ6’s.

Beyond that they were mostly handsome garbage.

When the Lexus LS400 came along in 1989, I was done with Jaguar.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

They will already be behind the signs that say No Trespassing, so . . . .

 

[AceDesSpades]

People can be purposely illiterate.

 

[ll74]

All those poor MAGA kids will never buy a Jag because of their wokeness.

Sales will plummet exactly zero percent.
.. that'll teach em!

 

[AceDesSpades]

Pied Piper

 

[John_von_Neumann]

It's Boy Shit - not Lit Libturd pansy pussified shit. You know, like shootin'. Guys, steel, grime, a bit of grease and some oil, some smells, and some old school blood if you ding your knuckles. There's wrenching and welding and painting and sewing and working with steel and glass and rubber bits, sanding and prepping and tuning and learning and meeting new people who can help and a few who just get in the way. I think you'd like it. Go meet some car folks first and hang out and have a beer and toalk about Stuff. Gizmo Stuff. It's about the Gizmoness.

Everyone knows what you're compensating for, tWat.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

I heard that as part of the program to distance Jaguar from its traditional brand and reputation, they plan to make the cars reliable.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

That'll show 'em.

 

[HisArpy]

Waaaa, I miss my 75 mgb, used to work at British Motors of Monterey

I had an anniversary edition, complete with the hexagon badge on the dash. Until, that is, someone decided to turn it into a pretzel.

We stole the running gear out of it and rebuilt a 70 MGBGT using those bits.

 

[HisArpy]

Mommy keeps Her Preciouses in the basement. This stuff takes place out of doors and in converted barns and garages and lots of places. There was a piece on youTube about some guys working on stuff and the shop owner had a big standard poodle who helped out.


None of the beer was Bud Lite either . . . .

Rebuilding a classic car also requires a decent BBQ and space for the rebuild gang on the weekends.

It's one of those little things that gets overlooked by newbs.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Not out here.

We fire up the barbecue and classic cars just show up..., KC Masterpiece.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Rebuilding a classic car also requires a decent BBQ and space for the rebuild gang on the weekends.

It's one of those little things that gets overlooked by newbs.

And good cole slaw.


I like Marzetti's.

 

[AceDesSpades]

sour kraut here

Lots of them with classic cars.

 

[drobert44]

I had an anniversary edition, complete with the hexagon badge on the dash. Until, that is, someone decided to turn it into a pretzel.

We stole the running gear out of it and rebuilt a 70 MGBGT using those bits.

I was amazed at the British cars we worked on; tuneup for a Jag in 1972……$200

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Let's bear in mind, please, that the CCCA is the decider of what is "classic." And mostly, what ain't. It's a bit like Marbury v Madison - because they said so, that's why.


So the car on the trailer up there is a full classic. Ain't none of this other tin on the list.


How's that for snobbery???

 

[ChloeTzang]

I heard that as part of the program to distance Jaguar from its traditional brand and reputation, they plan to make the cars reliable.

Now THAT would distance them from the past......