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A bit different

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:33 pm
by 8009STEVE

Re: A bit different

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:42 pm
by win
The author calls it classically ugly, I think not, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
But never the less different. I want one, Jag performance traveller economy??

Re: A bit different

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 4:11 pm
by dunketh
Oh dear.

oh dear, oh dear, oh dear...

Re: A bit different

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 4:47 pm
by Longdog
It's such a waste attaching a rusty heap to that............Traveller that is.

Re: A bit different

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 6:56 pm
by Fingolfin
How interesting. I wonder how it handles? I think I'd almost be fond of it if there wasn't a weird dip in the middle that made it look as though it were going to snap in half at any moment.

Re: A bit different

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:04 pm
by mike.perry
Maybe he should have fitted your six wheel conversion :)

Re: A bit different

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:37 pm
by stanley0070
mike.perry wrote:Maybe he should have fitted your six wheel conversion :)
Maybe he Should have gone to spec savers....!!!!!!! He He He """"

Re: A bit different

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:46 pm
by MarkyB
The author calls it classically ugly
He works for the daily Mail, I wouldn't trust him to tell me the time of day.

Re: A bit different

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:29 pm
by beero
If it was April 1st I wouldn't have believed it. Even in the 70s I would have thought an XK150 to was too valuable to mess about with like that.

Re: A bit different

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:30 pm
by IaininTenbury
Remember seeing a picture of that some years back. There's rather less Minor involved than the article suggests just the wood and roof on the XK chassis and floor. Yes its a pity about the roof line. As an idea it could have worked so well, but I guess the work in reshaping the roof and straightening out the rear edges of the door tops whcih it needs for the lines to follow through were too much work.
I wouldn't be surprised if it gets rebuilt as a standard XK roadster. Must be worth far more in original form!

Re: A bit different

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 11:49 am
by dunketh
He works for the daily Mail
:o
Careful now, thats like calling someone a racist, sexist, homophobic xenophobe in one simple statement. :lol:

Re: A bit different

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:15 pm
by MarkyB
For some mysterious reason I had a cold call from someone trying to sell reduced price subscriptions to the Mail.
Even after I said that I won't even pick up the free copies they have at airports she still seemed to think I should be interested in the deal!

A little later a chap called with the same pitch, no idea who he was, some kind of super salesman he thought.

By shouting at him down the phone, having explained it once, he eventually understood that if you can't give something to someone, saving money isn't the issue, it's the product.

Re: A bit different

Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:27 pm
by bmcecosse
Exactly Iain - it WILL undoubtedly be bought for restoration to an XK.

Re: A bit different

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:30 am
by IaininTenbury
Indeed there's a company in Norfolk who make all new body panels for XKs, even a new shell. So it will be a straightforward if, not cheap, job to bring it back to standard. Probably be a cheaper way of getting an XK...