XF Estate Necromancy
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XF Estate Necromancy
So, my latest JLR necromancy project is under way.
1st set of photos is on arrival with nothing done to it outside of cleaning up auction lettering.
2nd is stripped down to confirm what all parts are needed - impact is exactly what I expected. Lots of expensive soft stuff in the front, but all bolt on.
And the 3rd set is for my personal pride because black wheels is the most boring trend in wheel designs, perhaps ever. Turbines, however, are great. Don't try to tell me black wheels are actually cool. You're wrong. I will fight you on this.
I enjoying saving interesting cars. The F-type in the background is a 3 pedal cabriolet that I saved last year. .
At the moment the only body styles I care about are wagons and convertibles
I know what I am doing and have done this for a very very long time. Some play with Legos, I play with the adult version. The Jags will likely continue the trend that most of my other projects do in that I explore factory cosmetic updates and bolt on stuff, but rarely performance modifications. I buy a bunch of parts cars, tinkering with what does and doesn't fit, learning as I go, selling off left over parts on ebay. I would like to get a set of XJ sport seats, or the F-type seats instead of the factory XF seats. XF seats just don't amaze for sure, but I don't find them terribly offensive for function.
It's a habit I've developed and have done for over a decade. Nothing teaches you about a car as much as taking it all apart and putting it back together.
If you want an example, check out this long term build thread on my BMW E91
1st set of photos is on arrival with nothing done to it outside of cleaning up auction lettering.
2nd is stripped down to confirm what all parts are needed - impact is exactly what I expected. Lots of expensive soft stuff in the front, but all bolt on.
And the 3rd set is for my personal pride because black wheels is the most boring trend in wheel designs, perhaps ever. Turbines, however, are great. Don't try to tell me black wheels are actually cool. You're wrong. I will fight you on this.
I enjoying saving interesting cars. The F-type in the background is a 3 pedal cabriolet that I saved last year. .
At the moment the only body styles I care about are wagons and convertibles
I know what I am doing and have done this for a very very long time. Some play with Legos, I play with the adult version. The Jags will likely continue the trend that most of my other projects do in that I explore factory cosmetic updates and bolt on stuff, but rarely performance modifications. I buy a bunch of parts cars, tinkering with what does and doesn't fit, learning as I go, selling off left over parts on ebay. I would like to get a set of XJ sport seats, or the F-type seats instead of the factory XF seats. XF seats just don't amaze for sure, but I don't find them terribly offensive for function.
It's a habit I've developed and have done for over a decade. Nothing teaches you about a car as much as taking it all apart and putting it back together.
If you want an example, check out this long term build thread on my BMW E91
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I think the Range Rover is more the adult Lego than Jaguar.
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I very much am in the belief that accents are the spice of life. Accent is everything! I'm very very much in agreement with you that the all black look is just laziness.
Why do you say that? I have nothing against them, I just don't have any use of a SUV in my life right now. Not necessarily any inherent reason any more than I "need" wagons as my lifestyle doesn't need the space. SUV just seems like I will be paying extra for things that at the moment mean nothing to me, like even more space and extra ground clearance. And in the negative camp any performance SUV application also comes along with baggage that is not useful with things like additional weight, fuel economy loss, performance loss, and of course the energy loss when trying to combat the physics of the previous dislikes.
Why do you say that? I have nothing against them, I just don't have any use of a SUV in my life right now. Not necessarily any inherent reason any more than I "need" wagons as my lifestyle doesn't need the space. SUV just seems like I will be paying extra for things that at the moment mean nothing to me, like even more space and extra ground clearance. And in the negative camp any performance SUV application also comes along with baggage that is not useful with things like additional weight, fuel economy loss, performance loss, and of course the energy loss when trying to combat the physics of the previous dislikes.
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Thank you. And yes, this is on the parkway, don't specifically remember where, but if I remember correctly this is south of Roanoke close to Smith Mountain Lake, but it certainly could be further north closer to Big Island. I'm blessed with beautiful roads all around me for whatever kind of driving I might want. Mountains, little back roads, river runs, everything; VA is a wonderful state!
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I meant that as a figure of speech, not that they actually had any resemblance to legos or were square. Everything in the modern JLR program is quite swoopy after all. My lego kits are just a lot more expensive than the kid's version. A few tubs worth of spare parts instead of being a couple hundred dollars is more than a few thousand. As they say, the difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
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This week I took delivery of the parts car for the stuff needed for my estate.
A very highly optioned XF S sedan in my needed color with everything I need except grill shutters and a main grill that doesn't have the adaptive cruise.
Wheels are interesting, not 100% terrible, but not amazing. I didn't buy it for the wheels so it doesn't really matter. Has new tires I could put on my F Type I suppose.
Also, same transporter also brought me an old AMG for a different project. I love the c/a209 generation. Have had one for a long long time. Great GT cabriolets if you didn't know.
A very highly optioned XF S sedan in my needed color with everything I need except grill shutters and a main grill that doesn't have the adaptive cruise.
Wheels are interesting, not 100% terrible, but not amazing. I didn't buy it for the wheels so it doesn't really matter. Has new tires I could put on my F Type I suppose.
Also, same transporter also brought me an old AMG for a different project. I love the c/a209 generation. Have had one for a long long time. Great GT cabriolets if you didn't know.
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