How much do you love Jules Verne?

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Probably less than this guy. James Love is a bit infamous in the XJ-S community for his Verne-styled dually Jag (rebuilt 5.3 V12 with a 4l80e swap) with a custom camper made out of a Lear. He drives it around the country in appropriately ridiculous costume. 1000000% not my thing but it’s neat to see someone living their best life and I utterly live for the comment threads where lots of 60 year old British men bitch about how he’s ruining a piece of history and the car would be better off crushed.

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The funny part is Love has damn near written the book on updating the electronics and such in the XJS to make it, y’know, reliable enough to tow a fuckin jet around the country, thus making himself a larger benefit to the community than the combined effort of every stodgy old geezer meticulously waxing the rubber door seals on their 1200mi convertible garage queens.