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  • Lugnut

    Nov. 4, 2010 1:33 p.m. Lugnut HalfDork

    I was trying to go until my birthday in the spring before I started looking at cars, but it's getting colder and my wrenching time is becoming less abundant and I was thinking about adding car #7 to the armada.

    I was thinking about an XJS, a turbo Dodge, maybe a different brick, an RX7, a 3rd gen F-body, an RX7...

    But then I think, hey, what about parts for one of the other cars? So I was looking at roll bars and headers and exhausts for the Miata, Konis and springs for the Swift, heads and a cam for the LT1, iPD goodies for the 740...

    Then I thought to myself, "Self, why not go comiserate with your GRM friends? They have the same disease as you." But that XJS seems to be softly calling my name, in a cool British accent...

  • 914Driver

    Nov. 4, 2010 1:52 p.m. 914Driver SuperDork

    Wait. You're refraining yourself from buying a big British piece of junk with crappy electrics only because you don't have time to wrench on the other six you already have?

    That about right?

    AND YOU CAME HERE ????

    Fugsamaddawidyou?

  • Nov. 4, 2010 1:56 p.m. triumph5 HalfDork

    Go buy a V-12HE XJ-S convertible!!!! Fun cars, great cruisers, keep you busy between cruises, and prices have bottomed out on them...

  • pres589

    Nov. 4, 2010 2:06 p.m. pres589 HalfDork

    '79 Ford Fairmont four door sedan with a heavily boosted 2.3 & a T5. Build a complete and total sleeper out of the thing.

  • Blitzed306

    Nov. 4, 2010 2:24 p.m. Blitzed306 New Reader

    pres589 wrote:

    '79 Ford Fairmont four door sedan with a heavily boosted 2.3 & a T5. Build a complete and total sleeper out of the thing.

    THIS^! I tried to buy this awesome Fairmont earlier this year, when I offered 900bucks the guy hung up in my face.... jerk

  • Lugnut

    Nov. 4, 2010 2:36 p.m. Lugnut HalfDork

    I also found a 3rd gen 5.7L TPI Firebird, red, slick top... Or a 5 spd 305 Camaro... Or a 5.0 bubble back Capri... Or a crappy british racing green XJ6... Or a 750 Ducati super sport...

  • friedgreencorrado

    Nov. 4, 2010 2:37 p.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork

    The Fairmont's on the Fox chassis, innit? There's all kinds of goodness for those things.

  • RoosterSauce

    Nov. 4, 2010 2:39 p.m. RoosterSauce Reader

    You can't go wrong with an XJS, but what you really want to do is put that Jag V12 in an RX-7, then put the rotary in the Jag but put a punch of turbos on it so it'll actually move.

  • Nitroracer

    Nov. 4, 2010 2:53 p.m. Nitroracer Dork

    friedgreencorrado wrote:

    The Fairmont's on the Fox chassis, innit? There's all kinds of goodness for those things.

    There are much stranger foxes to choose from too, I kinda like the granada, cougar xr-7 & t-bird.

  • mtn

    Nov. 4, 2010 2:58 p.m. mtn SuperDork

    http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/cto/2032221026.html

    Bad ad, but it could be interesting. Depending on where it is, probably not that far either.

  • ReverendDexter

    Nov. 4, 2010 3:17 p.m. ReverendDexter Dork

    I feel ya... I'm pining for a Miata, but am absolutely broke after having a kid 3 months ago, having to move 2 months ago, and having to cover 90% of the bills as my wife just went back to work from maternity leave.... all while trying to support a foxbody and paying on my Bronco.

    I actually had to kick an AllTrac to the junkyard. That hurt, even if it was a Camry.

  • 96DXCivic

    Nov. 4, 2010 3:19 p.m. 96DXCivic SuperDork

    Are the other 6 cars working?

  • Lugnut

    Nov. 4, 2010 3:43 p.m. Lugnut HalfDork

    mtn wrote:

    http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/cto/2032221026.html

    Bad ad, but it could be interesting. Depending on where it is, probably not that far either.

    That's a little more than double what I want to spend on a car.

  • Lugnut

    Nov. 4, 2010 3:44 p.m. Lugnut HalfDork

    96DXCivic wrote:

    Are the other 6 cars working?

    One is a parts car. One is currently down because it needs a head gasket and I don't have time until Monday to send the head to the machine shop.

    The other four all run great.

  • pres589

    Nov. 4, 2010 4:26 p.m. pres589 HalfDork

    It's just one idea but a Fairmont with four doors, a lightly breathed on 2.3 turbo (230 or so at the crank should be plenty and pretty easy to get to) and then start throwing suspension bits at it.

    I really wish I felt like I had the garage to support a decent project so I could put a wrench & my money where my mouth is...

  • m4ff3w

    Nov. 4, 2010 4:34 p.m. m4ff3w SuperDork

    I think a V12 XJS would be awesome to have for awhile.

  • Lugnut

    Nov. 4, 2010 6:04 p.m. Lugnut HalfDork

    The XJS has been on my must-own list for a long time. Also, there is a decent red Buick Reatta locally.. a manual Volvo 244 in Milwaukee... a used JR supercharger kit for the Miata... an LS400, a Q45...

  • 96DXCivic

    Nov. 4, 2010 6:48 p.m. 96DXCivic SuperDork

    I say Jaguar XJS or even better an XJ6 Coupe.

  • friedgreencorrado

    Nov. 5, 2010 1:08 a.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork

    Nitroracer wrote:

    friedgreencorrado wrote:

    The Fairmont's on the Fox chassis, innit? There's all kinds of goodness for those things.

    There are much stranger foxes to choose from too, I kinda like the granada, cougar xr-7 & t-bird.

    I dig the 80s 2.3 Turbo T-Birds. One of my ex g/f's had an 86 Turbo Coupe, and I enjoyed it so much that I stopped rejecting "modern" American cars just because they were American.

  • mtn

    Nov. 5, 2010 1:37 a.m. mtn SuperDork

    friedgreencorrado wrote:

    Nitroracer wrote:

    friedgreencorrado wrote:

    The Fairmont's on the Fox chassis, innit? There's all kinds of goodness for those things.

    There are much stranger foxes to choose from too, I kinda like the granada, cougar xr-7 & t-bird.

    I dig the 80s 2.3 Turbo T-Birds. One of my ex g/f's had an 86 Turbo Coupe, and I enjoyed it so much that I stopped rejecting "modern" American cars just because they were American.

    I love the Turbobirds. I was brought home in an 87'.

  • Luke

    Nov. 5, 2010 4:00 a.m. Luke SuperDork

    Lugnut wrote:

    But that XJS seems to be softly calling my name, in a cool British accent...

    Jaguar XJS V12:

    I say, Lugnut old chap, buy me!

    Then if something expensive happens to the engine, LSX and manual swap.

 
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