Never fear, fellow hunters of old and potentially unreliable (or even new and potentially unreliable!) motor vehicles. The web archive at archive.org should work for you and allows you to read (albeit slowly) all of the info that seems to have disappeared into a strange Schrodinger's reality where it simultaneously exists and doesn't exist at the same time, depending on who is viewing it!
I'm on the hunt for a 90s Jaguar or Daimler and I'd like a pointer as to the engines to avoid, the models to pick, issues etc. Snag is, like a lot of you, I can't see anything other than the main review.
Point your browser at https://web.archive.org/web/*/honestjohn.co.uk and pick a date from the calendar provided. I went for April 13th and my browser (Edge) happily provided what is, essentially, a complete back-up of the site. Found my info - ruled this one out.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170327174129/http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/jaguar/xj8-and-xjr8-1997/?section=good
You can stop reading here if all you want is a way to find the info that you now can't currently see.
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I have a suspicion this might be related to how strictly people have set up their privacy settings in their browsers due to differing results. All of the major ones allow you to set different levels of tracking/script blocking/cookies et.al. and I managed to coax *some* of the car-by-car sections back into life by fiddling with mine in different browsers but it was neither repeatable nor reliable. Something has definitely changed, code-wise, on the site because, up until a few weeks ago, it worked 100% of the time.
The other thing, of course, is that we are probably using different versions of the same software. "I have Firefox too" doesn't mean much if you haven't updated it for a few years!
Edge is basically Chrome now (but has additional features I really like so switched to it) and neither work for me. A quick install of Firefox showed that didn't work and neither did Opera which is also Chromium-based. I couldn't get any of the current releases of the browsers to work.
The Good/Bad section of those reviews is hugely, hugely useful for anyone buying a car that's been manufactured for at least a year or two and it's now inaccessible at my end. Even the link to the following page at the bottom of the main review section simply scrolls my browser back up to the top of the review.
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