Jaguar Lister Mk III 7.0 Litre Twin-Supercharged V12 For Sale | Julien Sumner Fine Motor Cars

 

That's how the XJS should be powered and look. Beautiful machine.

 

That's not how the XJS should look ... an unfortunately successful attempt to destroy the beautiful design of an original XJS.
My 2 cents ...

 

Hmmmm, I like it! Just my $.02!

 

Can you say awesome! When I think of the perfect XJS that is it-black-fast-extra wide and bad a&s. Too bad they were so expensive in the day as I would have loved to see one cruising around when I was a young man.

Dang I would love to take the young guys at work out for a drive in that as it would give them a story to tell all their friends and put the XJS on the map for younger generations in my area-oh well it is good to have dreams.

 

Love the idea of 7 litres and 6-speed.

As for the looks, well...ugh. I think it's borderline hideous. Like an over-bulked body-builder on steroids!


Cheers
DD

 

Is it twin centrifugal superchargers? I'm putting a supercharger on a 6.0 and very curious as to what/how Lister twin supercharged?

 

I'm sure that they were centrifugal and for some reason Eaton pops into my mind.

 

Jeez Doug borderline hideous-really ? I thought for a moment you were looking at a wrong photo of say maybe a AMC Pacer or a 1995 Buick Roadmaster-LOL.

Well now you have motivated me to get one built and bring it up to the All British Field Meet in Portland so we can stare at it together and see if I can sway your opinion-hey if nothing else I know the younger generation will love it and it will be a blast driving it up from Boise.

 

We might be up to a dollar soon if everyone keeps putting in their !

So I'll throw mine in.. I personally really like what they've done as a whole package- de-chromed, wide rear haunches, integrated spoiler. 6 speed with a 7.0L and twin superchargers just to top it all off. Sounds like the perfect package to me.

One curiosity with this particular car is the absence of the "LeMans" script that I've seen on the doors on other cars (see attached). Perhaps this was optional?

 

A bit of information here.
Note the different bonnet treatment on the Le Mans car to the first one that I posted.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21907/lot/292/

 

Lister used twin Albrex superchargers and they were Centrifugal.

Lister made these cars to customer order, so they started out as a stock XJS and tick the boxes till you reached your $ limit.

Everything was optional
Wide body
High tail lights with rear spoiler
Slopey nose
6.0L
6.8L
7.0L
7.0L + supercharger

and the list goes on.

Here is one with wide body 6.0L and no rear spoiler treatment.

 

I just couldn't. I do like the blacked out headlight surrounds and grille. The rest, not so much. The engine compartment is completely uninspired as well (at least aesthetically - the power figures look great).

 

This is the one that I had without the big wings.

 

It's contrary to the Jaguar concept.

Jaguar are sleek, trim, sophisticated. That type of thing.

I usually like a few subtle styling mods to convey a somewhat tougher, purposeful appearance....but it's easy to go overboard. Jags are not supposed to be 'in your face'. With a Jag you want people to say "That's simply stunning" and not "Wow. Holy ****, take a look at that f--kin Jag" ....if ya get what I mean


Plus, beyond just Jags, I've never really liked trying to make a street car look like a race car.



I'll be there !

And, yeah, I'm an old fart so I admit that influences my opinion

Cheers
DD

 

I'd drive that!
(';')

 

Steve M, nice Lister. Like an athlete in a tailored suit. Is it nosy to ask why you parted ways, and do you know where the car is now?

 

Its nice to see that they didn't all have the huge rear quarter windows, high tail lights, and sloping rear window.

I think that someone mentioned on another thread, that the US versions were pretty much just cosmetic options. That's a shame, because I'd like to see and drive one of the 7 liter supercharged cars.

 

It is a Lister, the way it is supposed to look. Would not push that out of the garage!

 

Not nosy at all. Flogged it for a pittance after it cost me a small fortune and still wouldn't run properly; had 3 different engines in it and even ended up with a hole in the roof which was the final straw.
Hugely entertaining when it worked properly, cars would dive out of the way when it loomed in their mirrors.
Sounded awesome and went like stink.
Sold it (practically gave it away) to the guy at simplyperformance about 10 years ago.