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Jaguars have always been noted for their lush tails, and here’s a quartet lined up to show off their hind quarters. Now here’s some feline appreciation I can get behind.
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Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Although a nice tail is more likely to get me to howl like a wolf. ;)
That XK-120 coupe is a gorgeous thing. How did the panel-beaters at Castle Bromwich or where ever form that sharp angle between the greenhouse and read deck?
I think it’s two different panels, or even more. Roof and rear deck, and they seam-welded the meeting between those two, and sanded it down to make it look spotless. Between the rear fender and the decklid, there goes a tiny rubber seal all the way from bumper to door, to hide the meeting between the different panels. It has the same red hue as the car, but i think the car was spray painted without the rubber seal, or the seals would simply be painted over, trapping air and moist.
What XK120? there isn’t one in the picture! The closest thing in the photo is a red XK140 FHC
Jaguars were (mostly) always distinctive and desirable (as long as you didn’t have to maintain them). Today’s Jag looks like something Lexus might offer in their showroom. Not sure if they are as trouble free, though. Whenever I see a new Jag I don’t think twice. If a V-12 XJS drop top goes by, I always look and ponder the not-so-good old days.
In the current days of 7 year redesigns, it’s amazing to think that the XJ-S went mostly unchanged for over 20 years. I drove one of the last ’96 examples, a V6 convertible. Great leather, but man was the driving position horrible, and it handled like a barge. Cowl shake like you wouldn’t believe too.
The XK8 that came out the next year was more modern…ish, but wow did the materials quality take a nose dive.
A V6? Goodness that’s a rare XJS indeed. Like so rare they didn’t even make any!
We both know he was talking about the I-6. Your sarcasm really wasn’t needed (this post and the ones above and below), when a simple correction and a quick link would have sufficed.
Jaguar AJ6 Engine
The XK-120 is a stunning piece of art, worthy of display in MoMA. There’s so much going on in that car, and yet it all hangs together with such a high level of artistic integrity. I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen one of those either in real life or in a photo before.
I would rather have been treated to a bunch of views of that one, and leave all the others out. The others don’t compare.
Hate to burst your bubble dude, but that ain’t no XK120.
It’s amazing how Jaguars have always managed to captivate – something about that feline grace always draws another glance!! There’s the understated aura of British luxury, and perhaps their rarity helps – fewer than a dozen shapes over seven decades. Almost an indefinable trait, though the term “animal magnetism” feels uniquely appropriate..!!
Anyone who thinks today’s crop resembles Lexus probably hasn’t studied them up close. Jaguar bodies are still drawn by hand and fashioned from clay – there are subtleties to the materials, nuances of form and proportion that brook no comparison in Germany, Japan or America. Drive one and watch yourself, other drivers, and pedestrians react.. or just take my word, the animal’s magnetism remains intact..
Tight butts drive me nuts
I don’t know squat about Jags and don’t really care to, but listening to the Jag Genius crew above argue with each other about who knows more is great entertainment!
To the point of the post, however, they are very nice design pieces, especially the two early examples in the foreground. It’s a pitty you don’t see any cut up into truly unique and beautify art-deco era customs, free of all the mass production eye insults shown in the photo.
This just makes me want to scream. At Ford. For making the XJ before last a carbon copy of the previous car. It was predictably deathly dull (even if an excellent car), thus forcing them to come up with a whole new styling direction after 60 years of feline grace.
If only they’d had a little nerve back in 2000, they wouldn’t have had to make such a clean break with their glorious past. And new XJs and XFs would have sat comfortably with those pretty rumps in the photo.
G’d Ford.