I WAS SITTING IN THE GARAGE, WHEN I LOOK AT THE FRONT VIEW.

(YOU KNOW HOW CARS DEVELOPE A PERSONALITY)

CAR LOOKS LIKE IT LAUGHING AT ME. hmm.

SO I TOOK A PICTURE.

its like a cartoon or something snarling, like a cat!!!!!

 

i like that radiator grill.

 

It looks like an evil grin to me. I think it's getting ready to eat you.

 

exactly, thats when i said " you silly looking car"

Jeez!! now i'm talking to my car,!

 

Are you afraid that you have "Christine" haunting your garage?

 

sometimes things get weird, but once i'm in the drivers seat, everything comes together,

the sound of 12 cylinders,, wind in my hair, right hand drive, what not to like!

i just thought that a pic was kool!

 

i drive a right hand drive company car.......

 

I reckon you need to drink more HAHAHA.

First rule of Jag ownership, LEARN HER LANGUAGE. It should be on page 1 of the handbook.

 

holy cow thats a good looking Jag.

 

Grant, that is pretty sweet. I think the mesh treatment would look good on a black XJS. Where did you find the complete set (upper and lower)?

 

Where did I find, HAHAHAHAHA, I am an Aussie, we find NOTHING. Borrow something permenantly from time to time, NO NOT REALLY, but there was no such thing as mesh for the early XJ-S, and add to that I am related to Scrooge.

I looked up "woven wire" suppliers in the local Yellow Pages, damn, 4 streets away. Actually walked there (one leg and all), and spoke with a guy equally as posessed with Jaguar as me, and selected an offcut of suitable gauge, and back home to "The Shed" and merrily made what I wanted. The old grille was cracked and split and at $600 (in 1998), NO WAY.

The lower just made sense, coz that single bar really is a second thought.

Now I get zero Locust in the radiators etc when in the bush.

A lot of "outside the box" thinking went into it, along with Jack of the Daniels family. It was COLD that night. Took about 4 hours.

The headlight surrounds I found at the dealer in primed finish?????, so at $10 each too good to refuse, and since my chrome was toast, anything was going to look better.

I have since done the X300, BUT, it is NOT an "R" so the factory plastic vertical panels went back "over" the mesh inserts I made. It was purely for bugs I did it in the first place, and the lower is a work in progress, and is not as simple as I first thought. More inner lubrication will be required me thinks.

 

Looks more like it was ready to take a decent sized bite out you, they're sensitive, don't upset them!!

Cheers,

L:anguid

 

im just gonna tell you right now, that my grill will be like your before i get my XJS running right. more motivation to get it fixed. lol