Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

Cars You Never See Anymore

I have finished, for low values of finished, the 348GTS refurb so I need a new project and have acquired this...

1731200311596.png

1962 International AB150 dual cab 3.5t truck. It's better than it looks because the bodywork is basically intact (patina, mate) and ALL the unobtanium glass is present and correct.

I got it (very) cheap because it has no engine. I'd love to do an EV swap but there is no route to that outcome that doesn't involved the bankruptcy courts so probably a 3.9 Cummins 4BT inbound.
 
hash tag said:
Thats a rare beast, certainly here in the UK. I dont know that I have ever seen one in the flesh.
Click to expand...

There are a few here in Western Australia. Until the Japanese arrived in the 70s, most of the trucks and full size pickups here were American. The British manufacturers had trouble penetrating a market where it's quite possible to die if your vehicle breaks down.

Got it into the workshop and it won't fit on the lift so I locked the doors and went home to have a think about my life choices.
 
If I had the money and the required passion to own a classic car I would rarely use, I would love to get myself a Citroen CX. And reliability be damned.
 
dessiato said:
Official project for an XJ40 estate car. It's a good looking car. It's at the Gaydon museum

View attachment 451393View attachment 451394View attachment 451395View attachment 451396
Click to expand...

The XJ40 has aged far better than the X300 that succeeded it. Not doing the estate just seems to be yet another fuck up that was the pain quotidien at Browns Lane.

I was reading that Jaguar have basically stopped car production now and bet the company on some 4 door GT BEV eBay Taycan thing that's coming out next year.
 
DownwardDog said:
The XJ40 has aged far better than the X300 that succeeded it. Not doing the estate just seems to be yet another fuck up that was the pain quotidien at Browns Lane.

I was reading that Jaguar have basically stopped car production now and bet the company on some 4 door GT BEV eBay Taycan thing that's coming out next year.
Click to expand...
I think that, in many ways, Jag will cease to be Jag, "grace, pace, and space."
 
dessiato said:
I think that, in many ways, Jag will cease to be Jag, "grace, pace, and space."
Click to expand...

Well, they have to do something because their previous strategy of fighting the BMW 3 and 5 Series with the XE and XF was a complete and utter failure.

On the face of it, go upmarket and go electric early is a sound strategy. If they were going to stay in the ICE game then they need a new generation of hybrid turbo petrol engines which they just don't have the expertise or capital to bring to market in any reasonable timeframe so they are trying to make a virtue out of a necessity.
 
New logo. I can just imagine the tattooed, e-scooter riding, Ronnie Corbett glasses wearing wankers from the agency that came up with this.

1732055727775.png

That upper case G in the middle was an extra 500 grand.
 
Griff said:
Not too many complementary comments on Twitter/Youtube (out of the many 1000s) about the ad that goes with it.
Click to expand...

I'm sure that's the point of it. Get noticed. Now everybody knows Jaguar have a new car coming out. If they'd done the usual car ad of a happy beautiful couple driving down PCH listening to MOR rock nobody would give a fuck.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

A
First car / how do people afford cars when in low paid work?
2
Replies
59
Views
1K
Chz
Chz
danny la rouge
Traffic news apps for travelling in cars
2 3
Replies
73
Views
2K
eightball
E
H
Met police cars from 2022
Replies
6
Views
385
hash tag
hash tag
ska invita
Car diagnostic computer scanners
Replies
8
Views
346
mauvais
mauvais
kebabking
Car buying websites?
2
Replies
38
Views
1K
colacubes
colacubes
Back
Top Bottom