I am a retired Uk citizen living in France, and have just finished rebuilding my XJS. My friend in Australia has just told me about this forum and I have just joined. I do all the work on the car myself in a big draughty barn.

 

Welcome to the forum,

We have a few French expat members, barn photos would be welcome!

 

Welcome to the forum.

Talk about long distance recommendations.

Good to have you with us

We have some members, down your way, and I know that they are up for a meet later in the year.

Check out the Regional Section/ Europe.

 

Hello and welcome Greg,

Retired + living in France + big draughty barn. My idea of heaven.

Graham

 

Got it in one, Graham!

Greg

 

Hey there Greg, welcome aboard Jaguarforums.com, great to have you with us .........
Let me get this straight......one of our members from Australia recommended you, from France to join us??
Lol....word certainly gets about, hope you enjoy the site and look forward to the pics

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

Any issues just post and the guys here will help you out no problems....

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

Jump on in and enjoy

 

Thanks to everyone for the kind and warm welcome. I will post some pics as soon as I work out how. Having rebuilt the car from empty shell upwards during the last year, I started to drive it again this last summer. Absolutely great after 5 years of no XJS. This winter's work is a complete rebuild of the front suspension (reinstalled unchanged before as I was frightened of too many bits on the floor), more than half done, thanks to the mild weather. Lovely new bolts and bushes all over it.

Cheers
Greg

 

K Greg, just so you have no excuses, I've added 2 links below that clearly show how to post pics.....lol

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/j...pictures-2418/

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/j...essages-36173/

 

Thank you for the pic help. I have used photobucket so here goes, it should be a pic of the flying buttress welded repair, before filling and painting:



Fingers crossed

Greg

 

I'm also new to the Forum, retired and living in France (in the Creuse, 23)
The forum is one of the nicest I know (one very good metal detecting one but most of the audiophile ones are very clannish).
There's also a colossal amount of good info here but I find it easier to find by using Google rather than the inbuilt search engine.
Where are you?
Welcome.

 

Steve

I am in Burgundy (71). So glad the forum is a helpful and nice place. Another pic, now I know how!



best
Greg

 

Greg,

Once you get that engine sorted, I expect you'll be heading over to the 'detailing' forum to find out what to do with the liberal coating of Burgundy mud all over the front.

Engine crane looks a substantial piece of kit with a good lift height.

Graham