Hi, all,

I have been lurking on this forum for a while, but - faced with recent notice threatening 'eviction for inactivity' - am finally posting.

I am in the Brit-car game for a while, having started with a '76 Spitfire, quite a way back.

Getting into Jaguars was almost a coincidence: since I had a few fun cars of my own, I wanted to get my wife her own toy and about 20 years ago bought an early 80's XJ6 with just "a few issues". How hard could it be to fix it up?

Ouch! What a mistake that was! Taking the whole interior apart to get to the faulty air-exchange box under the dashboard was a winter project in an unheated garage; I even impressed my mechanic.

Many other repairs and restorations later, including recovering seats, I spent probably 3-5 times the original purchase price (excluding my own time) - and subsequently sold it for less than I bought it for. Normal, eh?

Lesson learned. But I caught the Jag bug and over the years went through a sequence of other XJ6's, an XJS drop-top and even an E-Type FHC. However, wrenching does not turn me on that much anymore and a few years back I pared down my collection to just the XK8 coupe I currently own.

It is a thoroughly modern car (i.e., not much old-style mechanical and electrical craziness, though with modern-car problems, like emissions, ABS, etc.), but still an essential Jaguar. I will acknowledge that I bought it strictly for the looks... Nothing else.

I somehow never warmed up to the XK8 convertibles: something weird about the look of the rear side of the roofline for me. I saw a coupe in the UK and was smitten by the sensuous lines - as soon as I discovered that it was actually also imported to the US and a few examples were available on the used car market, I snagged mine some 6 years ago.

So, this is my story.
Best regards from Northern New Jersey. Robert.

 

Hey Robert, welcome to JF, good to have you here with us .....thanks or a really nice intro full of info, nice one.
I'm the guy that was going to evict you for not joining in....lol


There really are some amazing and friendly guys here....you're in really good company to discuss anything Jag related or even just to have a few laughs!


So we can help you better, please put your Car model, Year of manufacture etc into your signature.....this will help members to answer your query, quickly and clearly.

scratch the above I think Robert, as it sounds like perhaps you may be giving us more info than we give you by the sounds of it.


A really great mix of information, camraderrie and fun
I've manually upgraded you to full forum access so you can better view the site and all its features so jump on in and enjoy

 

Thanks for getting me motivated... And thanks for upgrading forum access.

Robert.

 

Welcome to the forum,

Glad to hear that Mr Motivater got you moving.

That's quite the Jag history that you have.