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Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
The first Rolls-Royce I drove was a 1960s Shadow, across the Cairngorms on the glorious A939 to Tomintoul. It was a memorable drive, clear skies, snow-capped mountains, little traffic. When we returned to his Speyside house the owner suggested I try his Jaguar XJ6, which he thought a better drive than the Shadow. It was: even by XJ6 standards, the Shadow’s steering and suspension, geared for the American...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. The Jaguar XJ6 sold in fairly large numbers in North America during the 70s and 80s, but you don't see many of them on the street these days. Perhaps that's because brutish, ham-fisted Americans (and those Moosehead-swilling, tuque-wearing Canadians) can't be...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
Considering how many Jaguar XJ6s I see in the junkyard, they're not so common on the streets of Alameda. My guess is that dead Jags languish in back yards, garages, and driveways for year after year (it just needs a few "minor repairs," really!), until an enraged wife or landlord dispatches them to The Crusher. Whatever the reason, it's been quite a while since we last saw a Jaguar in this series,...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Seems every time I go to a certain East Oakland self-service junkyard, I find something old and unusual on its way to steelyard reincarnation. Last time it was the 1969 Jaguar XJ-6 ; now it's a very-well-picked-over 1973 Opel GT. These things were never plentiful in North America, and I don't think I've seen one on the street for a decade. Yet, somehow, one has survived long enough to make it to the...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
We've seen a few British cars in this series, including a '59 Morris Minor , a '62 Mini , a '69 MGC-GT , and a '78 Jaguar XJ-6 , but it's been months since the last one. That's why I'm going with this very clean Morris 1000 convertible for today's DOTS machine. You British-car experts should feel free to put on your anoraks and make with the exact year identification on this thing, because I can't...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 12/11/2007
It had to happen, given how flaky power antennas always are: one of the BMW antennas on the Junkyard Boogaloo Boombox went on the fritz, so I had to do some junkyard shopping over the weekend. Happily, I found a suitably functional antenna on a Saab; that accomplished, I decided to see what interesting inventory could be found on the yard. Sure enough, here's a fairly solid-looking Chevy-powered 1969...
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AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 06/21/2007
Filed under: Flex-Fuel , Jaguar What is it with fruits and fuel today? Across the pond, a cider farmer in the UK, one Henry Hobson, converted his Jaguar XJ6 a while back to move off of the methane he produces from the decomposing fruit in his orchard. A perfect solution for him, but this alternative fuel is not practical for most people. Hobson's 3-litre XJ6 saloon gets about 28 mpg on methane (it...
