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I was just cruising along minding my own business when this pulled out right in front of my wallet. WHAM! The damage was completely unavoidable but fortunately not too severe.
For sale signs appear automagically in your face nowadays. Buy jag parts and it’s like “Do you want a jag with that?”
This one was a rescue. Original owner put over 100K on it before he parked it inside. He passed away, and the heirs lost the keys.
Until two two days ago this coupe was complete and in good shape. In two days the spoiler, hood emblem, “XJS V12” emblem, two center caps, front seats, side mirrors, steering wheel and radio disappeared as it sat, windows down, and outside for the first time in 16 years.
We couldnt let the buzzards get it like that so we took it home. Price was commensurate with the concern the new owner had for it.
Hard part is deciding if I want to be like the buzzards and part it out for my own spares or fix her up.
Rust free, straight panels, original paint, but glossy. Interior clean, wood crazed lightly. If she’d stayed unmolested she’d look better than my daily driver.
seriously conflicted here. I was looking to get a parts car sooner or later, I’m just not sure this is a parts car.
Very nice looking, now if the "low lifes" would return the stuff they stole, you'd be in business. I don't think I'd hold my breath waiting though, as you probably wouldn't look good as a SMURF ! LOL!
Rust free, straight panels, original paint, but glossy. Interior clean, wood crazed lightly. If she’d stayed unmolested she’d look better than my daily driver.
seriously conflicted here. I was looking to get a parts car sooner or later, I’m just not sure this is a parts car.
I used to buy wrecked or non-running Toyota Supras and part them out many years ago. I went through that quandary with one 1984 model in particular that I bought for $200 at a charity auction. It wouldn't start, had some minor hail damage and a sunbleached and cracked interior. I mainly just wanted the set of brand new Michelin tires off of it. I diagnosed the no-start as a dead simple fix that the donor had just overlooked. It ran and drove perfectly so I was starting to get sentimental. However, with the cost of paint and the interior made of the rare earth element, unobtainium, I was still leaning toward parting it out. Then out of the blue, a club member in Toronto who was doing the same thing came across a wrecked one the same color and for $1,000 I could have a whole mint Canadian interior boxed and shipped. At that point I decided it was worth doing the hail repair myself and paying a local professional $1,600 to lay the paint. After it was sold for $5,000, I probably only cleared a nickel an hour for my time.
I would have made more profit to have parted it out, but here's the rest of the story. The guy who bought it started taking it to local car shows, one of which was "Cruisin for a Cure" which benefits prostate cancer research. At these shows, they have a clinic bus offering free prostate cancer screenings and he took them up on their free blood test for men over 50. The week after the show, he got a call. Turns out he had a very aggressive form of prostate cancer and he would not have otherwise known until it had spread as there's typically not much in the way of symptoms in early stages. They were able to surgically remove it all and he's fine. After that he started volunteering with the group every year and there've been dozens of men who've survived because of the free tests at the annual car show. Not saying that saving one XJS will cause all sorts of miraculous things to happen, but this is after all, a very unique hobby we're in. One car started at a charity auction and helped some adult get a high school diploma and then later wound up saving a life or perhaps even several. Sometimes we just feel compelled to do things and we don't know why. Don't even know why I'm compelled to post as I don't have an XJS, but trust your gut instinct on this one.
Accidentally ran into a car. Damage no too bad.
