Best of British
May 13th 2010 11:47
Over the last couple of weeks a couple of very interesting cars have crossed the path of Autoloud.
These of course are old cars otherwise they would not be interesting!
How about a Mk II Jaguar! Admittedly it was a bottom of the range 2.4 litre, but still one of Jaguars finest in any terms. This manual gearbox car had received a very unsympathetic paint job which bordered on a shade of very unflattering Purple. The interior was much nicer in Dark Blue with the traditional and correct wood trim.
This is a car that Autoloud has lusted after for years. Blame a childhood trip to a distant relative who just happened to own a Mk II sedan finished in bright red. With black leather interior and optioned with a set of wire wheels and a fold back sunroof this bordered on the ultimate specification. A car like this would cost you and me many thousands of dollars as opposed the 2.4 which have emptied your bank account to the tune of $ 7600. Not too bad for a driveable useable MkII!
The other car also came for the stable of British Leyland although of much humbler origins. An Australian spec Morris 1100 resplendent in a shade that can only be called Algae green! BMC were much kinder and called it Moss green – alas no relation to the race driver of the period - now this not a car you would normally lust after but a little lateral thinking it could be!
A white roof, bonnet stripes, a brace of spotlights across the nose and a period set of minilite replicas plus a nicely tuned 1275cc engine would have this Morris menacing in a Cooper S kind of way!
These of course are old cars otherwise they would not be interesting!
How about a Mk II Jaguar! Admittedly it was a bottom of the range 2.4 litre, but still one of Jaguars finest in any terms. This manual gearbox car had received a very unsympathetic paint job which bordered on a shade of very unflattering Purple. The interior was much nicer in Dark Blue with the traditional and correct wood trim.
This is a car that Autoloud has lusted after for years. Blame a childhood trip to a distant relative who just happened to own a Mk II sedan finished in bright red. With black leather interior and optioned with a set of wire wheels and a fold back sunroof this bordered on the ultimate specification. A car like this would cost you and me many thousands of dollars as opposed the 2.4 which have emptied your bank account to the tune of $ 7600. Not too bad for a driveable useable MkII!
The other car also came for the stable of British Leyland although of much humbler origins. An Australian spec Morris 1100 resplendent in a shade that can only be called Algae green! BMC were much kinder and called it Moss green – alas no relation to the race driver of the period - now this not a car you would normally lust after but a little lateral thinking it could be!
Morris 1300
A white roof, bonnet stripes, a brace of spotlights across the nose and a period set of minilite replicas plus a nicely tuned 1275cc engine would have this Morris menacing in a Cooper S kind of way!
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