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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Who wore it better? Type 01: 91 years of Jaguar Easter eggs. A sleek futuristic vision of the marque’s history and heritage. Practical? Reliable? Sensibel? Gtfo no. The closest thing we will create to something that is alive, silent, showcase of tech and aesthetic? Oh fuck yeah. Bravo, JLR.

Jaguar Type 01 fender ingot, with leaper.

Series 1 Jaguar XJ6, showing fender leaper badge.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How to spend a day off: WW1 aircraft and delicious food.

Main museum building of the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. Featuring a variety of pre-WW2 aircraft, cars, engines, and more.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An exciting Sunday: rediscovering my love for Legos.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How to apply stained glass cling film: with cat assistance.

Fluffy tuxedo gremlin checking out my cling film that’s going on the window

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have working navigation in my car. Finally.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Newport, RI: a place where you may see a century old car out for its daily constitutional.

Through the windshield of a Jaguar, an open topped sedan of the 1910s to 1920s, on wood wheels, just driving about town

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The weirdest cargo I’ve carried in this car so far, and a worse passenger than any of the three cats

A bunch of green and gold balloons in the passenger seat of a Jaguar.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Shadowmoon agrees. She charmed us with her kitten ways, and has since turned into a floofy gremlin who’s 35% adorable and 65% crimes.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day from this purrbeast of unusual size and his catnip pickle

A large black cat attacking his catnip pickle. He’s already very stoned from the catnip.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“Terribly sorry, I broke down in front of your driveway… in my Jaaaaaag”

Miss cattitude decided to die while running and needs more serious fixing. We have folding chairs and are camped out waiting for the tow truck.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Plate tectonics as demonstrated by sashimi.

Salmon turning into a mountain with salmon, tuna, and white tuna around it. Made sense in context.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Welp that’s explain part of my job poorly, but in German

“Please bring order to the chaos,” in German. Thanks Duolingo.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

For anyone who needs it: this cat is snoring

A large black cat, with his favorite fishy, curled up asleep and snoring.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

And finally got to see a cute little DC-3 being a hardworking Alaskan plane.

Smol DC-3 taxiing into Anchorage. I’m convinced these things have gone feral up here and formed a sustainable breeding population.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Nope! This lumbering beast!

A real live Dreamlifter. It kind of looks like a 747 having a very bad allergic reaction.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Unexpected find for @bustedride.bsky.social, a Buick in the Alaskan semi-wilderness.

A very tired Buick Lesabre that’s seen better days. Parked in a puddle in a small town in Alaska.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Update: going to a cool aquarium means souvenirs. I now have an octopus hoodie.

Alaska Sea Life Center is excellent and support marine conservation, buy souvenirs. I have an octopus hoodie.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Only in this house: @labcoatguy.bsky.social turned the Pontiac Grand Prix taillight I found in the junkyard into a stained glass window.

Earliest 1990’s Pontiac Grand Prix taillight, the one that looks like compound eyes, in the living room window as a stained glass insert.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Not only did I survive my first Concours as a competitor, I came home with a prize in Preservation class!

Very happy Latina woman sitting with her 1972 Jaguar, showing off the prize plate for best in class.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Behind the scenes of Concours detailing. Not pictured: seltzer can, beer, degreaser, flashlight, butter knife, scratch-x, technicolor dreamcoat of microfiber towels, q-tips, spare tire that’s an emergency seat/storage shelf

Pile of detailing supplies and trash. I spy with my little eye gloves, makeup sponges, paper towels, shopvac, old carpet, snowblower, lawnmower, wax, plastic restorer, gloves, leather cleaner, my last four brain cells…

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Have you ever detailed every last little crevice of your rescue car, or are you normal

Rear console in my 1972 Jaguar, featuring the newly shiny metal trim, polished and restored ashtray, and clean air vents.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Welp, I’ve done a full paint correction on a certain white Jaguar. Holy shit that’s a ton of work. She is glowing.

This bonnet is kind of matte/satin at best from age. It’s slightly glossy, and this is before wax.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It may take A Lot of work, including two hours of hand-polishing, but this car is going to look respectable on the show field.

Series 1 XJ6, slightly disgruntled at the amount of grooming she’s endured today, but she’s glowing and shiny after lots of compound and hand-buffing.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

After heavy rain on and off, gorgeous rainbows!

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Mmm the smell of carbureted exhaust, hot oil, and burned rubber. Flying in a B-29 is truly one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had.

View of Massachusetts from the navigator’s seat of Fifi, one of two flying B-29 in the world.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

How can I not track a Very Cool Plane

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Me: I’ll just pop open the desktop PC and replace that little motherboard battery and try to get this ancient brick to boot Me: I have invented new profanity due to my hatred for PC hardware Kitten: helps

Fluffy black tuxedo kitten “helping” with some emergency PC repair

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

2.5 hours of work, replacing some new carpet with cleaned old carpet.

Interior of a Jaguar, showing her bright red old carpet that my detailer somehow saved.

Patchwork for the parts I couldn’t save.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

#weirdcarbs sighting of the day: a real live W12.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It’s always a good day when you drive your rescued car to work.

White Jaguar chilling out in the employee parking lot, prob marking her territory with an occasional oil drip.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

First cruise night of the season! Met a cool Saab Sonnett, forgot my hubcaps.

White 1972 Jaguar XJ6 making friends with a yellow Saab Sonnett, judging that Lexus on the other side

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

That’s half the front chrome. This is so much work.

White Jaguar with half her chrome windshield trim in place. Ow my hands.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The World’s Orangest Cat is officially cured of stomatitis! No more dentist visits for him!

Orange creamsicle cat caught mid-meow. He’s so stoned from the dentist that he can smell the color three.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Detailer: apologizes profusely for not being able to get the old Jaguar carpets perfect Me: They’re beautiful! And they’re 54 years old, they’ve seen some shit.

A pile of ancient red carpet and the weird hairy jute insulation used in old cars. After a thorough exorcism and lots of shampoo, they’re significantly better.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Reasons I do have a slight headache and pain-when-moving-face: yesterday’s visit to a piercing studio. The three lobes are old, the helix (top of ear hoop) is old. The rook (bar near head) and conch (purple gem) are new.

Showing off setup. Triple lobes, one helix, new high conch and rook. All titanium jewelry.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If you need to get on ramps to bleed brakes, but you don’t have brakes, maybe don’t do what I just did and dent your under-tray because an extra wheel in a box caught you Only egos and nerves were harmed in the making of this adventure. Okay fine there’s a dent, but that’s a problem for later.

White Jaguar XJ6 a bit hung up on a wheel. She is not happy about her tail being stepped on. Oops.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

One of these three left something in the cat box that needs to be returned to the First World War’s chemical labs. Therefore, the window is open and they’re fascinated.

A large black cat on the ground, a silly orange creamsicle and fluffy tuxedo kitten looking/sniffing out the slightly open window.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

White car? Yup, we have one of those. She’s very friendly.

My white 1972 Jaguar, making friends with the electric lawnmower.

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Rocky @coffeeelf.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Jaguar XJ6 status: Attempted to reassemble the choke mechanism, ball bearing is missing for the 83rd time. After chasing it around the garage. This car knows I’m trying to reassemble her for spring and she’s being a brat about it.