Hey guys,

While I haven't had time to work on my car in a while, that doesn't mean I'm not thinking, planning, and scheming. I'm hoping to start some serious work on it this fall/winter. In the mean time I downloaded photoshop and messed around. What do you guys think of these ideas? I wanted to go back in years before the govt was looking over the shoulder of the designers.

 

Lovely, and very like what Jaguar's own styling idea was, pre regulations:

 

Prototype.

 

Weren't the regulations around US req's?
I wonder why they didnt stick with original bars for europe like the headlights.

 

Yep that's what I want mine to look like.

Jack

 

I hadn't seen that prototype picture before. Interesting. That's not bad but I like the look from the jags in the 70's with the thin chrome and twin verticals. I was thinking about looking into the possibility of using one of those to modify.

 

For comparison. Here's the two original pictures. I should have posted those before. I know everyone knows what they look like but it can't hurt to see them side by side.

 

I'm going to come out as opposed. To me, the least attractive part of the car is the area under the front bumper, especially seen from the side, where it makes the car look like a chinless wonder with an overbite. The large, dark bumpers do a pretty decent job of hiding that area, thereby making the car seem even lower and wider. This is why I'm not such a fan of the late facelift body-coloured bumpers.
(The car has been designed with an approach angle more suited for an off-roader than a sporty couple, especially if you remove that front air dam.)
If you do want to slim them down and chrome them, then at least I would take the rear one especially all the way forward to the trailing edge of the rear wheel arch. The more horizontal lines in the design, the better, in my view.

 

Just like this guy:
Could someone please 'shop a chin spoiler onto him?

I like the HE or early facelift bumpers as are on the car now, not the later big-bumpers, and that's because they let you see the shape of the body. And I love chrome bumpers eg. MGB up to '74...so I think you may be on to something, Avanti, especially in the second photo where they're a little beefier, not quite so delicate. Your overriders are good too.

 

That is such an improvement, it should be XJS law.
I hate the old bumpers.

 

Try it without those teeth and see how threatening he looks....