Jaguar - Another Iconic Brand Consigned to the Dustheap of Woke Fuckups

[AceDesSpades]

Make that HUGEly...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Show off.
No five-yard ball spikes allowed!

I also have four or five YUGE mobile toolboxes by category, plumbing, electrical, woodwork...,

Exactly. Some formal, some less formal, and all full or close-to-full. A lot of that stuff is salvaged, too. They don't want it, fuck, I'll take it.

 

[AceDesSpades]

This ain't a competition.

I still have my little landline toolbox with replacement parts...

 

[AceDesSpades]

I would have 4.76...

Wat would have a reload toolbox for that calibre...

 

[AceDesSpades]

It's all about the penis, er..., the Jag...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Only if the illumination is by gaslighting….

 

[AceDesSpades]

I'm going to get a new box for LED work and trick out the underside of the F150...

 

[HisArpy]

Ha!…i’ve had 2 tool cabinets forever, one for metric the other for sae wrenches.

I have one tool chest. Unlike some I don't need to engage in segregation.

British cars are junk, some very pretty junk like all those British Leyland sports cars of the 60’s and 70’s.

A friend of mine bought a “restored” mgb like that one a few years ago and never got more than an hour from his house in it without having to call a flatbed. He gave up after a year and bought a newer Miata.

Your "friend" is a sucky mechanic if he can't keep a car running for more than an hour. There's no other way to put it, as a mech, he sucks. Period.

I've owned several MGB's, from roadsters to GT's, and I've rarely had any issues with mechanical breakdowns. The ones I had were daily drivers and I even rallied with them a few times.

You need a reliable car when you're in the middle of the Mojave at midnight somewhere between LA and Vegas. My MG's never let me down.

Of course I happen to know a guy who's a wizard with multiple carburetor systems and once setup correctly the SU's on a Brit car work extremely well and are simple to maintain.

As for the claim that they're "scary" at highway speeds, the car was often used to rally. That is, drive on winding roads at high speeds and not crash. They did a very good job at it taking numerous trophies in their class at the time.

They are still used today for SCCA racing and you can occasionally find them on the track in historic races.

Basically, all of that only underscores how much crap you spew as "truth" instead of bullshit.

 

[ChloeTzang]

You’re on crack.

A Toyota Yaris would outrun an MGB anytime.

Maybe in a straight line. First corner and that Yaris would roll like a ball......

 

[HisArpy]

You’re on crack.

A Toyota Yaris would outrun an MGB anytime.

A Toyota Yaris is a modern design and engineered for today's roadways and commuting. So if we're going to compare apples to apples, you need to take the blindfold off your ignorance and find an apple.

Fuck even pigs can do that, with or without a blindfold. You? Not so much.

 

[HisArpy]

Any of those stock jap econoboxes with a set of decent 60-series tires will out run and out corner any restored stock mgb with the same tires.

Go check weight, hp and tourque. Physics doesnt lie.

Yup.

Now do a match up between any of those "stock jap econoboxes" and a corvette of the same year.


Because that's what you're doing when comparing a car designed in the 1950's with something designed and built today.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Yes, that’s my point.

You can flap your gums about your “ cars of yore” all you like, but most were just styling exercises on top of simple carts.

Fact is most of them are just slow dangerous bad-handling junk compared to even the most ordinary of today’s cars.

“Cars keep going faster all the time…”
Sonny & Cher

But they look so good........and they have character, unlike the soulless designs that all look as if they're clones of one another.

 

[Lance_Castro]

But they look so good........and they have character, unlike the soulless designs that all look as if they're clones of one another.

Sure, some are genuinely lovely designs.

But this stuff about older cars looking better is also partly bullshit.

It’s like music; most people like music that was popular when they were 13-18. Puberty. Sex. There are songs and artists you lock onto forever because it was part of your formative years.

Same with cars; people like cars that were around when they were young.

Nostalgia sells. Especially in times of rapid change.

That’s all MAGA is. Half of America likes pretending the USA is like “before”.

Harpy likes MGB’s. Lots of people do. I wanted a Mini as a teen, so I often have a bmw mini cooper s in my life for that reason as much as anything else. Nostalgia.

When I was 16 my boss at the Mall used to lend me her Spitfire some saturday nights and sometimes she’d lend me her Corvette, she was obviously a bit of a perv, she loved knowing teenagers were masturbating each other in her cars.

Truth is almost everything is better today.

You’re just getting old.

Ha!

Ps: the Jag Type 00 is cool looking… total PenisMobile like a 1970 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ.

 

[HisArpy]

Yes, that’s my point.

You can flap your gums about your “ cars of yore” all you like, but most were just styling exercises on top of simple carts.

Fact is most of them are just slow dangerous bad-handling junk compared to even the most ordinary of today’s cars.

“Cars keep going faster all the time…”
Sonny & Cher

It wasn't your point.

Your "point" was to bash something iconic because you cannot speak charitably about anything since you have zero knowledge about everything.

 

[HisArpy]

Harpy likes MGB’s...

l like CARS.

I currently have a Cadillac. Second one in a row. I'm lusting after a Bentley but am also considering a Rolls Ghost or Phantom. I'm actively on the hunt for pre-1975 a survivor pickup. There's a '63 GMC that's caught my eye but it has title issues.

Which illustrates that I don't just like MGB's, I like cars.

See, your problem is that you don't see the world as it is. Instead you try to tell the world that it's what you want it to be. Unfortunately for you, the world doesn't listen to insufferable fuckwads. Nor does it care. For which I'm very thankful.

 

[HisArpy]

Thats funny.

A brake job on a Rolls costs more than your Cataract.

Lol

And? You not able to pay? Is that your problem? You're too broke?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

l like CARS.

I currently have a Cadillac. Second one in a row. I'm lusting after a Bentley but am also considering a Rolls Ghost or Phantom. I'm actively on the hunt for pre-1975 a survivor pickup. There's a '63 GMC that's caught my eye but it has title issues.

Which illustrates that I don't just like MGB's, I like cars.

See, your problem is that you don't see the world as it is. Instead you try to tell the world that it's what you want it to be. Unfortunately for you, the world doesn't listen to insufferable fuckwads. Nor does it care. For which I'm very thankful.

This. I like the guys with the mile high trucks, the tuners, the lowriders, the restorers, the hot rodders, the hoopdie guys - because they're all Car Guys. I may not want your car. I may not even want to ride in it. But, you're a car guy, and I respect that. Buy what you want, drive what you want, and fuck a whole big bunch of some naysayers fucking negativity.

 

[Lance_Castro]

And? You not able to pay? Is that your problem? You're too broke?

Lol

https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/5b3/89d/66869e2d8c20bc83507e261abc8553cb5b-19-grey-poupon-mustard.2x.rsquare.w400.jpg
For his next trick, Barrister Harpy will deny liking MGB’s and claim to be Rolls Man In Waiting!

 

[HisArpy]

Lol

https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/5b3/89d/66869e2d8c20bc83507e261abc8553cb5b-19-grey-poupon-mustard.2x.rsquare.w400.jpg
For his next trick, Barrister Harpy will deny liking MGB’s and claim to be Rolls Man In Waiting!

Not my fault your a broke asshole.

 

[AceDesSpades]

I have one tool chest. Unlike some I don't need to engage in segregation.



Your "friend" is a sucky mechanic if he can't keep a car running for more than an hour. There's no other way to put it, as a mech, he sucks. Period.

I've owned several MGB's, from roadsters to GT's, and I've rarely had any issues with mechanical breakdowns. The ones I had were daily drivers and I even rallied with them a few times.

You need a reliable car when you're in the middle of the Mojave at midnight somewhere between LA and Vegas. My MG's never let me down.

Of course I happen to know a guy who's a wizard with multiple carburetor systems and once setup correctly the SU's on a Brit car work extremely well and are simple to maintain.

As for the claim that they're "scary" at highway speeds, the car was often used to rally. That is, drive on winding roads at high speeds and not crash. They did a very good job at it taking numerous trophies in their class at the time.

They are still used today for SCCA racing and you can occasionally find them on the track in historic races.

Basically, all of that only underscores how much crap you spew as "truth" instead of bullshit.

I live with someone like that who can never find the thing she needs in her box, so she raids and scatters mine to the four winds until she finds what she needs and then when I next need it, I have to dig through her toolbox which is an amazing collection of odd tools, the most amazing of which is, how many universal tools there are in the world with nobody in the known universe using them.

'Tis the season

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I live with someone like that who can never find the thing she needs in her box, so she raids and scatters mine to the four winds until she finds what she needs and then when I next need it, I have to dig through her toolbox which is an amazing collection of odd tools, the most amazing of which is, how many universal tools there are in the world with nobody in the known universe using them.

'Tis the season

Universal tools, as a rule, suck. They do little well and most things poorly or not at all. Cutesie stocking stuffers. It's why they're on end caps in stores and not in the tools section.


There were obviously invented by libturds who aren't suited and equipped to change light bulbs.

 

[AceDesSpades]

What do you get the old man for Christmas?

He has everything.

Toolbox?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Jesus!!! Oh fuck no!!! Please, ignore me for Xmas. If you feel compelled to buy me something, one word: gift card. Never presume to know what tool I need/want, what clothes to get me, what book I want to read next. Just . . . gift card. Or nothing. That's fine, too.


I seem to be accumulating welding stuff.


Now, if you must and you feel like dumping several grand, there's that nice three mode welder over there >>>>>>

 

[Wat_Tyler]

And a plasma cutter . . . .

 

[AceDesSpades]

Gift card just doesn't say I care like a useless gift.

Think kid: SOCKS??? [first known curse word here]