Cool XJS thread

I've always liked these, especially this one:







edit: Found the build thread and it just happens to be in this here parish! I forgot - and I'd actually posted in it!

Here's a newer pic with black headlight surrounds and no rack:



linkage:

retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=84109

LISTER lemans 7.0 supercharged 200mph+ beast wowsers thats awesome!!!!






[stolen from the internetz]
This mighty XJS had a price tag when new of around £167,000 but for your money you got super car performance and some. This Lister XJS arrives at 60mph in 4.4 seconds with 0-100mph in only 10.8 seconds and a top speed of 200mph+. Twin Albrecht superchargers and 604bhp will scare the living daylights out of you but I should imagine the vented four pot callipers and massive 18 inch rubber will keep you on the Black stuff and not in the hedge !!. Because these cars were developed so much from a standard XJS, a lot of parts were of course changed like digital fuel injection, enlarged fuel tanks and a clutch from a Ferrari Testarossa. This Monster XJS has G-force acceleration nearing any F1 car and today you can buy one for around £20,000 ( 2003 ).[/wow]

I've been tempted to get an XJS for drifting for a while... There was a cheap manual one on here for around £750 T&T, I didn't have the balls... They are also BMW fitment and Jags normally run a high offset, so this pretty much means cheap BMW dish!

ooff that estate is the bees knees

i cant get enough of them, working on them almost every week, but usually pristine condition, i had the chance to drive one of the only manual coupe ive seen back in the sumer and i couldnt keep the rear wheels to stop spinning... maybe i was just excited?

In 1999 I joined Revs Magazine at the end of a series of features called Dogs Tour'd, where four staff members had a grand to buy and modify a car. Dan Williamson bought an XJS V12 for £750, managed to get it around Bruntingthorpe, dynod and other stuff before we drove to Knockhill from Peterborough for the last part of the challenge. We felt like kings gunning it away from Sheffield listening to T Rex on cassette. I took it (or it took me) round a wet track and then we proceeded to play bangers with a Sierra XR4 and an S12 Silvia on the hairpin... When I googled to see if there were any images online, I found this... Which is what it looked like in my head ;D



The next series of features was called World F'Cup...

Ive always wanted an XJ-S so badly it hurts my face... Justifying one is my problem but I keep momentarily convincing myself that it would be a great race-day toy project, thankfully by the time Ive manged to load ebay, theres either none cheap enough or Ive checked my bank balance!

Anywho this is the best I can do at short notice:

a) that XJS is amazing

b) those features were some of my favourite in a magazine anywhere. IIRC you had a Golf with Variable Cone Induction on the F'cup? haha

I'll dig through my collection of REVS and scan it in if i get a chance.

Used to be an avid reader of REVS as it was the only one I could leave lying around the house, and was focussed on cars!!! Used to love some of the challenges I remember one involving a Capri and a Starion I think and a Saab 9000 and something else.
I think Dogs Tour'd was just before I started reading it.