thinking of upgrading to xk150
Danny,
I had every single known and many unknown maladies of the X100 happen to my '02 in the 115,000 miles I put on the car in the past 8-10 years (on top of the 60,000 miles that were already on the car). And this on a car that had a full Jaguar factory service history. Everything broke including the plastic tensioners, water pumps, convertible hydraulic hoses and the ram, supercharger, octopus hoses under supercharger, everything. I paid at least twice as much to fix the car than the great bargain I got in paying for the car. And now, in restoring it with an engine rebuild, respray, suspension freshening, etc., I'll have spent more than I originally paid for the car (when I could have bought another in very good condition for less) to accomplish this. But when I think about what I could buy for about $15000 that I could enjoy as much and in nearly new (now) condition, the answer is simply NOTHING!!! My X150 5.0L coupe provides everyday performance, my Pantera (when and if I ever get it back, hopefully in the next couple of days) will provide the raw thrills of supercardom, but my X100 will provide a classic gentleman's cruiser that still provides some measure of performance and a boatload of pleasure. Pictures of my 2002 XKR and my '72 Pantera next week.
I had every single known and many unknown maladies of the X100 happen to my '02 in the 115,000 miles I put on the car in the past 8-10 years (on top of the 60,000 miles that were already on the car). And this on a car that had a full Jaguar factory service history. Everything broke including the plastic tensioners, water pumps, convertible hydraulic hoses and the ram, supercharger, octopus hoses under supercharger, everything. I paid at least twice as much to fix the car than the great bargain I got in paying for the car. And now, in restoring it with an engine rebuild, respray, suspension freshening, etc., I'll have spent more than I originally paid for the car (when I could have bought another in very good condition for less) to accomplish this. But when I think about what I could buy for about $15000 that I could enjoy as much and in nearly new (now) condition, the answer is simply NOTHING!!! My X150 5.0L coupe provides everyday performance, my Pantera (when and if I ever get it back, hopefully in the next couple of days) will provide the raw thrills of supercardom, but my X100 will provide a classic gentleman's cruiser that still provides some measure of performance and a boatload of pleasure. Pictures of my 2002 XKR and my '72 Pantera next week.
You have had a lot go wrong with your car. Too bad. So maybe mine wasn’t such a lemon, maybe those cars are just unreliable as I suspected. It’s weird though, I’ve had my ‘02 XJR for about four years and it’s been completely reliable. It is the same year as my XKR and they share so many of the same parts and design but they are like night and day reliability-wise.
I totally understand why you are restoring your car. It’s not about a return on your money. We work hard to earn what we can so we can spend money on things that are important to us and give us pleasure. You obviously have the same passion for your cars like I do so can I relate! It’s fun to bring a car back to how it was when it was brand new. You’ll have so much pride in your car making it perfect. I’m in the process now of doing that with an ‘87 Vanden Plas I just got over the weekend. Only 27k miles! :-)
Can’t wait to see your pics!
Danny
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