Hey y'all, as they say down here in the South, although I'm a transplanted Indiana yankee. First time on Jag forum, but have been around other forums for a while, I'm 55chevy on Jalopy Journal, AACA and 67-72 Chevy trucks. Came from Ft Wayne/Kendallville IN by way of SE Alabama, been here almost 3 years, I would complain about how hot it is here but I don't miss shoveling snow, and the winters are getting colder.

Flew to Denver last Thursday to pick up a black 2000 S-Type, 91k miles, drove right back overnight, made Tulsa Fri morning and stopped to visit my brother for a few hours, had a ride along that helped driving. Headed out again about 4pm, dark soon so didn't get to see any scenery in Arkansas, Lousiana or Mississippi. Stopped a couple times for naps, made it to Florida Saturday morning about 6, and crashed most all day LOL.

Trouble free ride, although once home I found a slight coolant leak on the overflow bottle return line at a plastic tee, which broke while I was examining it, glad it waited. Replaced it with a reliable brass tee, the old tee had big plastic molded 'clamps' on 2 sides, and a hose clamp on the other, what a goofy setup.

Only problem with the car is a dented rear chrome bumperette, and the trunk release switch on the dash quit working. The remote still opens the trunk, so I suspect it may be the switch, it worked for me a couple times but not now.

Wife loves it, she wanted a black one and that was the one of the few black ones I found with a 3.0 and under 100k miles.

I do most of my own mechanic work, hopefully it won't be anything major.

 

hi Welcome to the forum

tell your wife.. black car is so hard to maintain... after wash and wax then to a short trip it get all dusty again.. (especially in houston)

but S type on any color would still look great.

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

Hello, happy driving , nice intro .For your parts / accessory needs you can contact oyr vendors

 

Welcome to the forum,

Pity you didn't have some more time to enjoy the trip.

 

Some pics

 

welcome to the site 55chevy, good to have you here with us and thanks for a nice intro with good info!

The S type is a clean looking example and looks to be a good find....nice one. Presumably it was 55 stay alive all the way home
Nice pics thanks for sharing

Please check out the relevant section for your ride and you will find good info there, especially in the FAQ quick link thread.


The off topic section can be fun and there's always the regional section so you can see who is around!

I've manually upgraded you to full forum access so you can better view all the sites features....

 

55chevy
dude.. nice looking... still smooth.. didn't see the dent on the chrome bumper...
if you are looking for replacement chrome.. go to Ebay.. or go to http://www.minagallery.com/

Congrats once again....