Hello from E36 FLM, 1987 XJS 5.3 about to emerge from it's chrysalis
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Hi, I bought this XJS on eBay in 2004 on a whim. I always yearned for a 4.2 Series 2 E-Type but having hired one for a week I was cured. I needed a V12 and at the time had the cash to risk a potentially dodgy purchase. It was rough and the MOT was clearly illegal, probably bought in a pub. I could publish the vendors name, he is still around but I'll save that. I brought my beautiful baby daughter Scarlett home from hospital in that car in February 2005 in the snow so now I know why I couldn't let it die. Obviously it failed it's next MOT and decomposed on the drive for a few years. Divorce and unemployment gave me the necessary time to clear the garage, get a new bottle of welding gas and get stuck in. It only failed the MOT on 5 trivial items, none of them being rot but when I dug deeper I was shocked at what I saw. I welded in some 2"x1" door supports and started cutting, not stopping until I reached clean metal near the transmission tunnel. Since then I have pretty much replaced everything below the knee with genuine Jaguar steel. For that reason I have also immersed it in Waxoyl and applied many coats of BRG. Within the next two weeks it will pass it's MOT and grace the highways once more on newly refurbished 5-Star alloys with the correct profile tyres. I have just started a PhotoBucket album and will provide a link in due course. I hope to make some good contacts on this forum and perhaps attend some informal meets and maybe shows. This is not a concourse car, it was just supposed to be an MOT remember. Cheers, Mark.
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Thanks folks, and thanks for deleting my erroneous post. As for the bonnet stay it will look great after a few coats of BRG. I have photos of the whole job, it's two years of driving, six years of rotting then one year of hard labour. Also I thought I would add this picture of little and large, two simultaneous projects.
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Hi Mark, welcome to Jaguarforums, good to have you here with us
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