[Mean Mr Mustard]

I've seen one in my village. Being worked on / over by the garage, which I prefer to avoid. Prem Lux judging by the alloys. Mme. Moutarde sees a blue one at St Ives regularly. When I inspected and bought ours, going back home in the Skoda on the M6, there was one in front of me going at a sedate gentlemanly pace. And thereafter a XF Sportbrake. I took this as a sign that I'm actually living in a hologram, and none of this is real, including you lot.

I shall impose my own reality... Rare at Gaydon? Hmmm. My triumphal arrival will be in the Spring.

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

30 million cars on the road Glenn, you do the math.

I've not found any figure for total X351 production, nor UK registrations. Being Extra Sad, that info would interest me to work that sum out.

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

Being new to all this, I don't mind admitting I'm still confused. But the er, type, that knows every sub-variant of the machinery of their interest are best avoided, if the (Supermarine) Spitfire and F-16 Block Number 'experts' I've met are anything to go by.

X Pace? Hmm. When they resurrect the XJ electric limo? There must be an especially nerdy Jag Concept / What If clique out there?

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

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.

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

There's only one in Buenos Aires.

https://www.carthrottle.com/post/lrg6vv7/

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

They are making C Types and XK140's there.

http://www.agatellierartesanal.com/#!/-jaguar/

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

Homeward bound, a fleeting glimpse of a hyper-rare X351 facelift in white going the opposite direction along the Hartlepool town centre main drag... Wooo...

What's a mystery to me is -
X351 production was 122000 worldwide. So maybe one third was for the UK market? Does anyone know?
UK XF registrations - 102000 (Statista) (Can't find an equivalent 351 figure)
Yet it seems there's at least twenty XFs for every X351...?

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

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...

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

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.

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

Autotrader -

XFs = 1926
X351s = 243

Nuff said.

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

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.

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

Now I remember. The only visual check for a Kasuga'd Prem Lux masquerading as a Portfolio is the sad lack of embossed leapers on the headrests. Now, that's subtle, eh.

Back in my youth, Ford stuck badges on the back of their Fiestas to establish the model pecking order. And on the sides too, if it was a Ghia, just so everyone knew.

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

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.

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

The rear doors and rear sunroof are stretched. Front doors of the SWB and LWB are the same.

Thanks for that.

There are two X351s in the post to me, and lots of cutting blades ready for my Dremel. Working up each half as separate resin masters will be my next challenge. Seen casting done a couple of times. From there, much easier to rework into the various shapes, most of these for the Chamber of Horrors.

Sentinel Stretched armoured politician carrier
Kandy Purple Whip 'Jaquar'
Gold Slam
Wilcox Hearse
Drophead
Stretch Limo
Cancelled 'eXJ' in camo on trailer

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

I have the blue 1/43 diecast

That'll be the IXO / Atlas offering, with the razor thin window chrome edging, and also left and right boot release buttons. Not such a bad idea to build in some redundancy - pity Jaguar never thought of that.

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

No, outside the office, back when people worked in offices.

I have one of those laser cut paperweights of the XJ, and wish I could get an X100 to go with it. Rarer than rocking horse poo.

Someone out there with a wood lathe has surely by now turned out some nicely crafted Mr Whippy shapes, using a suitably dark shaded wood?

That would make a classic, yet honest, Ebay entry under Toy Accessories and Collectables.

RARE!
Rocking Horse Poop.

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

BNIB? That makes it more valuable... £4142.75... Could be the start of Tulip Mania.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353840337873?hash=item52628713d1:g:TjoAAOSwqNdhsTv5

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

Only because of the photoshop job - my door didn't look like that originally! I'm going to have to nip outside and have another check, now!

Best check the wheels while you're out there...

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

you have to spot them in the wild. Rule 6a.

Hartlepool?

 

[Mean Mr Mustard]

Can't think of anything that looks close to similar

Nissan 350Z at night.