Thursday May 17

Ed Hall’s Jaguar XJ6 4.0

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Executive Barge.

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Excitingly, for an Ed Hall car, this one actually works. In fact very well. For luxury and class on the cheap Ed reckons you can’t beat an old Jag. It goes well and handles well for a big, automatic barge but what he’s really addicted to is what it smells like. Something that the rest of the PPC staff reckon is a bit weird.

Bought in September 2006 for £900, the Jag is in pretty good nick. It’s got hardly any rust and drives like new despite it being 18 years and 150,000 miles old.

Ed’s not really done any modifications to it besides fitting Polybushes to the front suspension and change the crusty 15in wheels for a set of Jag XJ8 16s.

The front suspension rebuild wasn’t half a ball-ache though; everything’s held together with HGV sized bolts and the whole subframe had to come out to do the job. Ed reckons the Jag should be good for another 150,000 miles now though. And just in case, he’s hidden another 4-litre XJ40 lump behind his garage.
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The Jag was using this everyday until journalists’ wages, 400 miles a week and 21mpg came to critical mass.

Now it’s for when Ed wants to make all the horrible dieselness of normal driving go away.

Ed sold this to his mum. She obviously upset him.

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