mowerman Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 i dont get the ad either,,,my sister sent that clip to me i had not seen it till then,,,,you would expect,they would use a high class executive dressed to kill with a briefcase getting into a brand new one,,,indead of a collection of dragqueen las Vagas showgirl line up for upcoming performance,,,bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74810-jaguar/page/2/#findComment-563182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 I bet all of us are feeling a little bit better about Volvo at least. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74810-jaguar/page/2/#findComment-563189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted December 3 Share Posted December 3 nope, not me... real men don't drive volvos..🤣 1 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74810-jaguar/page/2/#findComment-563199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Joseph Cummings Posted December 4 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 4 Such a shame really. In the 70's we had a customer that had a 12 cylinder XKE. Some rich guy that owned a bunch of discount stores and had a warehouse around the corner from our garage. He wasn't mechanical at all and the Jag was kind of temperamental and had Lucas Electrics so sometimes he couldn't get it started so he'd just leave it at some country club or somebody's mansion and call us to go get it like it was no big deal. Never really anything wrong with it, I think he wasn't using the fuel enrichment switch right and would kill the battery. So we'd go out with the service truck and I'd get it running and drive it back. Sometimes it would be like 50 miles away. Well I was 17 or 18 years old and getting paid to troubleshoot an XKE so you know I had to see if it had any problems at max speed. Holy Chit it was fast, Quick too, it would chirp the tires with every shift. It was temperamental, and parts were crazy expensive, but what a car it was 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74810-jaguar/page/2/#findComment-563215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechohaulic Posted December 4 Share Posted December 4 as a teenager, one of the six yards I worked at owned 3 jags ;; 2 of the big ones which looked like roll Royce's and 1 XKE. took the xke for a "road test "one day !! 70+ on the back roads. think it had the 12 cyl. he was a weirdo . wife not bad but boy were the cars a fun time. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74810-jaguar/page/2/#findComment-563220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted December 4 Share Posted December 4 Wasn’t Lucas ignition’s the company they used to call the prince of darkness????and yes road testing an XKE would not be a problem here lol bob 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74810-jaguar/page/2/#findComment-563241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Cummings Posted December 4 Author Share Posted December 4 1 hour ago, mowerman said: Wasn’t Lucas ignition’s the company they used to call the prince of darkness????and yes road testing an XKE would not be a problem here lol bob 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74810-jaguar/page/2/#findComment-563247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted December 4 Share Posted December 4 Ha ha thanks for that. Yes, an old buddy of mine told me years ago Lucas ignitions were known for failing miserably a lot of times and that was what people used to call them back on the 60s. I had a 70 MG midget and I guess that also had Lucas ignition car was a piece of shit. I couldn’t get rid of that thing fast enough. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/74810-jaguar/page/2/#findComment-563253 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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