[Mean Mr Mustard]

Some recent spottings - while bimbling around pleasant Bury St Edmunds with @Purple Queen, and while pax with @captain crappycrimp on the M25 near LHR.

 

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Bagged two on a single run up to Scarborough (A1, A64) yesterday, where I was pax in @captain crappycrimp 's X5 Kublewagen.
I wasn't spotted myself on my return home in Behemoth.

 

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These are duly credited to Captain Crappycrimp, and verified by me, spotted while we were out and about these past few days. The FLY one was, appropriately enough, seen at Leeds / Bradford airport. There was another distant one in the car park there too which we really couldn't be bothered with. And, what's more, a fleeting glimpse of one on the Long and Winding Road*, back to the A1 / A64, near the infamous Harewood Hill Climb. It would seem to be a Moneyed Area, just beyond the grim conurbation.

The second grey one, where my Behemoth was parked around the corner, was espied at Irton Garden Centre yesterday. That's just beyond the realms of Scarborough. A distinctly (er, ahem...) ageing demographic there, it must be said.

* Cap'n C most wrongly hates the Beatles, whereas I would respectably disagree, given my Nom de Plume from the Abbey Road album. Having bought the then expensive vinyl in my teens, and then replaced the whole lot with CDs before I were 30... Next up on the Bowers and WIlkins.

 

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And *? Lots of *?

Forbidden word, it would seem. Here's a clue for you all. The Mary Poppins lead actor - ** van **.

 

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expecting to get a couple of minuets conversation he just grunted something at me and walked off I though that's a bit odd I wish I hadn't bothered saying anything now

Dog owners can be that way too.
'Hi, are you friendly??'
(grunts 'uh' and doesn't stop)
'I was talking to the dog...'

Of course, we Setter (and Great Dane) owners are all most pleasant and good for at least ten minutes of canine chitchat, as Cap'n Crappycrimp proves with his recent photo from our last meeting, taken while the friendly trusting owner went to the bar.

 

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There's an XJ lurking in the Colchester area. Wave if you see it, that'll be Mme. Moutarde. I'm left at home with the dogs and Skoda.

 

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Spotted last weekend in Lincoln by @captain crappycrimp, I took the pic as we left the car park.

 

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On reflection, a reflection is like quantum physics, if it's reflected, it was there,😎

Remember those ivory tower physics guys will also tell you that matter can't be destroyed.

 

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I was joined by a white 2011 XJ on my way into Scarborough on the A64 on Thursday. I'd been doing an economy run to try and beat my previous record - got it past the 60mpg+ before hills along the A1M. That all went completely out of the window when my new friend introduced himself near Malton. Driven at some pace, but sensibly. We had the dual carriageway sections to ourselves -, after the first 'weave', I played wingman, in between the villages and slow traffic briskly overtaken. With the Who's I Can See for Miles thundering on the B&W. So, that was the morning 20 miles of Jagmagic, followed by the afternoon spin in the country in (ahem) my second Jag.

XKR restoration - Project 'Ajax'

The tablets haven't worked. In fact, it's getting worse. I'm now the proud owner of a second Jaguar. Acquired as an 'unfinished project'. I have my very own very knowledgeable Tame Mechanic friend, who has assessed this fire breathing Monster in some depth. We were originally thinking of...

www.jaguarforum.com

If I can extract the dashcam file, I'll provide evidence of this encounter for the highly sought-after Brownie points.

 

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Personal contract purchase (PCP) is basically a loan to help you get a car

Nasty stuff. Best avoided.

 

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Which reminds me: can anyone tell an "L" by eye? I have to spend ages squinting, and pretending I am looking for pointers, and then guess.

... then hope I see the badge on the back.

For my modelling purposes, I'd like to know where that L stretch is on the bodywork - is it all rear door, or front and back combined? And presumably a longer rear sunroof. The XJL isn't offered in diecast form, so a cheap 'Welly' brand (LHD, opening front doors) will be cut and shut. Then serving as a resin master for various horrific street machines, stretch limo, hearse, Sentinel and so on.

 

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I spied a black portfolio on the way to the pub on Christmas day. ? 999 AKD.
(I can't remember what letter the reg started with)

Could have been a humble Prem Lux with Kasuga alloys, like wot mine is. You'd need to ask the driver if the seats were cooling and massaging to know for sure. Or the passenger what DVD they were watching on their split screen thingy.

 

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Academic XJ per miles theory report:
Chateau Moutarde to Manchester and back (to collect a job lot of 25 1/43 Jags for £100), used the Skoda. 2 grey ones spotted on the A1, Northbound then southbound - possibly the same car. 300 miles
Chateau Moutarde to Hartlepool via Scarborough, then Doncaster, Scarborough and back.
580 miles

880 miles, call it 900 / 3 = 1 X351 per 300 miles.

 

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My Scarborough friend noticed that a hot hatch tearaway yoof was behaving himself in a law-abiding bubble, in front of Our Very X351 Presence. Turns out the local Plod use unmarked black XFs. Damned if I could have told the difference in the rear view mirror too...

 

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There's a knack to parking them:
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... I can do anything except straight.

That's me! That's me in the photo... Passing a much travelled crate of well-deserved beer to @orsom weels...

 

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I find the X351 front parking sensors to be a tad sensitive - it starts wibbling then the constant tone while still a couple of feet away. That means you learn to give it a good stiff ignoring, defeating the point of the thing. And should one sensor fail, it takes down the rear camera and entire rear system. And those are essential on a barge that big. Someone here said it's like berthing the QE2...

 

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.Hope the owner doesn't lurk hereabouts

 

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Needs a Firebird, coat of arms, Growler, or some other tasteful bonnet motif.

 

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Here's an XJL I spotted earlier.
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You sure that's an XJL and not a wide angle lens effect?