I realized today that Luke Skywalker is in the world's shittiest version of the witness protection plan. (1) No, totally, let's put him on the planet that Anakin is from. (2) You know where they'll never look for him? With family. They'll never see that coming! (3) Homie is literally sleeping in Darth Vader's old bedroom. (4) You know, just MAYBE they should have changed his name to something besides Skywalker. Meanwhile, his sister is living with a different family galaxies away as a princess. Luke clearly was the shittier of the children, and the Empire must have been the laziest fuckers ever. I mean, Obi-Wan changes his name from Ben and all of a sudden he's untraceable. Also...
QUICK: What is a famous type of Jaguar that all guys wanted back in the day? I know it's my dad's dream car and he kept saying the model but I can't remember anything other than it's a Jaguar and it was notorious for not being reliable whatsoever. (Or maybe especially unreliable, since I guess that tends to be the thing with Jaguars.) He's 60 if that helps with the timing - I'm guessing that means it would be from the 60s or so. I just came up with 1-3 ideas for a gift that would be based on getting the car right and I figured someone here might know.
Ah, that would be the Jaguar E-Type. My neighbor growing up had one. Fucking thing was always in the shop. Spoilered for size. Beautiful car, though. Spoiler
wait are man purses not cool anymore? get him a leather one with a lot of studs so people know he's manly
I once dated a girl whose favorite car was a Jaguar E-type. A car-dealer buddy of mine found one, was able to arrange a test drive for her. (That move got me SO laid) Anyway, I told her that if she had her heart set on one of those cars, we should put a small-block Ford V8 and drivetrain/wiring in it for reliability and parts-availability purposes. Also, it would perform better that way.
Trunk nuts and personal belief bumper stickers? If you were really a man you would add naked chick silhouette mudflaps.
Juice, you have an unnatural obsession with celebrities making small jerky motions, it's time we had an intervention.
Only the Series 3 E-Type had the V-12 - the series 1 and 2 E-Types had the 3.8 and 4.2 litre XK straight-6, which Jaguar had been so successful with in racing - variations of this engine were used in production Jaguars until the 1990s. A near 40-year production run would not be possible if the engine was shit. Those engines are, as I said in some reps, reliable if well-maintained. The suspensions are also bullet-proof and desirable amongst kit-car builders, particularly AC Cobra replicas. The V-12 is not a bad engine but it makes the E nose-heavy and, thus, the series 3 is less desirable than the series 1 and 2 cars. Now, the XJ-S - THAT is an unreliable piece of shit. Any built before 1988 should be sent straight to the scrap yard. They are terrible with rust and interior trim issues. Most British cars from the 1970's were awful (exception being the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, but that is because it's a fucking Rolls-Royce). /end extensive Jaguar knowledge.