Burled Walnut - Did you ever look closely?
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You know, this is so cool I just had to share it. The other day, my girlfriend causually mentioned the "Jaugar", an image in the burled walnut above the glove compartment. Now I know there is no Jaguar leaper trademark on that pannel so I looked at her like "huh?" and she realized I had no idea what she was talking about.
She said, "oh I saw this months ago, take a look", then she pointed to the burl design on the left side of the panel above the glove compartment. I then saw what she meant imediately. The burl design created by nature looks so much like a Jaguar facing you head on, paws and all, that I wondered how I missed it. This image is enhanced by the fact that the panel I mentioned is flanked by a mirrored/matched pannel to the panel on its left.
This was clearly luck, but then these veneers are typically 0.02 inches thick, which tells me there are few dozen 1998 XK8's have nearly identical veneers out there. Who knows for other years. If you are like me you are probably so busy driving you never really looked, give it a scan its just plain fun to find something like this.
Hey if we find a few more, we can start an urban legend . . . happy hunting.
She said, "oh I saw this months ago, take a look", then she pointed to the burl design on the left side of the panel above the glove compartment. I then saw what she meant imediately. The burl design created by nature looks so much like a Jaguar facing you head on, paws and all, that I wondered how I missed it. This image is enhanced by the fact that the panel I mentioned is flanked by a mirrored/matched pannel to the panel on its left.
This was clearly luck, but then these veneers are typically 0.02 inches thick, which tells me there are few dozen 1998 XK8's have nearly identical veneers out there. Who knows for other years. If you are like me you are probably so busy driving you never really looked, give it a scan its just plain fun to find something like this.
Hey if we find a few more, we can start an urban legend . . . happy hunting.
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