My parents are awesome.

Bucket

I came home for a few hours today because I was teaching in the area, and my dad surprised me with this:

That, my friends, is the front passenger seat from a 1960s Jaguar Mark X like this:

http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2013/07/1967-Jaguar-Mark-X-420g-rear-three-quarters.jpg

Some bright spark put it on a swivelling base and now it's a chair! I can even lounge in it while playing guitar, because it has no arms! And it's squishy and comfortable as all fuck. And it reclines A Very Long Way Back. I needed a chair of some kind to fill a gap in my room, and also to give visitors to my room somewhere to sit. Except now they'll have to sit in the office chair at my desk because this is so comfortable I want to sit in it all the time.

My mum was walking past the local auction room with a friend when she saw it, and she and my dad went back to bid on it later!

What a badass gift this is. I love it.

octatonic

I want that chair.

tone1

I wonder how many 'Ladies of the night' have sat on that car seat? It being from a Jag/ Kerb Crawlers vehicle of choice...I still want it though 

octatonic

tone1 said:

I wonder how many 'Ladies of the night' have sat on that car seat? It being from a Jag/ Kerb Crawlers vehicle of choice...I still want it though 

Jag owner... not many.
They wouldn't want the leather spoiled.

Bucket

tone1 said:

I wonder how many 'Ladies of the night' have sat on that car seat? It being from a Jag/ Kerb Crawlers vehicle of choice...I still want it though 

I like to think it was driven by a retired colonel with a cravat and a relaxed attitude to leaving the restaurant before paying for the meal.

breakstuff

Awesome gift.Congrats.

Drew_TNBD

You're gonna grab so much pussy you might as well change your name to Trump.

A5D5E5

It's first owner was Major General Fawcett-Smyth.  He sold it to finance his divorce after that unfortunate incident with the cabin boy and the cat-o-nine tails.

It didn't spend long on the lot at Harry's Prestige Cars before it was bought by Gerald Chisolm.  Owner of a small manufacturing firm in the West Midlands.  It took pride of place in the car park at the local golf course until it disappeared one afternoon during the monthly medal.

it was next seen on Crimewatch as the getaway car after a heist at Blumenthal's jewellers in Covent Garden.

it was returned to Mr Chislom but he has bought an XJ12 with the insurance money so he sold it to a friend of a friend from the golf club who had a second hand car dealership in Dudley.

it was bought by a small time pimp from east end.  He used it as a mobile office and for recruiting and leisure purposes for over 20 years until it was involved in a crash following a police chase.

This time the car was sold for scrap.  The front seats were bought by an interior designer and converted into chairs where they graced a loft apartment in Docklands until he went bankrupt.  The bank foreclosed and sold his assets and that is how one chair now finds itself in the possession of Mr Bucket.

I'd give it a wipe if I were you.

guitarfishbay

Very cool

BigMonka

That's one stonking chair

octatonic

Shall it forever be known as 'the jizz chair'?

Drew_TNBD

octatonic said:

Shall it forever be known as 'the jizz chair'?

Chair. Jizz, chair.

https://latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/bond-james-bond.jpg

Alnico

It can be recovered by a jag specialist as if it were still a jag seat with a properly tailored, cut to fit new covering in gorgeous leather and any colour.
It should unbolt from the bade quite easily should you want/need to do this.
Nice to know if it ever needs it. Just google jaguar uplholstery and look for a local independent guy.

I *Think* it's currently around £100 per seat all done but that could be a bit out of sync by now.

The best Gift i've seen all year man.

Very cool parents, really pleased for you.

Sambostar

Absolutely God damn right.

Nitefly

Impeccable taste!

Bucket

I've been sitting on it all evening, reading a car magazine and listening to Debussy.

Up there with the better evenings I've had without being on stage or taking my trousers off.

It is fantastically comfortable. And it has that glorious old-car-leather-seat smell.

Alnico

Autoglym leather soap and Autoglym leather conditioner.
Do it right and you won't even recognise it, plus that leather smell will increase dramatically.

RocknRollDave

Needs a Bigsby

stickyfiddle

That's awesome! 

DrJazzTap

That's a seriously considerate and cool gift congratulations.

Snap

oh yeah, that is so very very cool. I need one of those. I really really do.