Good evening from the Pacific North West. I live on an island in the middle of the Columbia river betweeen Washington and Oregon.




New member here. I am a retired Ship Master and my wife has gotten me into a few vehicles, mostly Mercedes but due to a death in the family I just traveled to San Francisco and picked up a 1997 XK8 convertible.

The car had been sitting for four years and was the project of my brother-in-law. It is actually a nice car and I am looking forward to restoring it to good to excellent condition. It was not running when I loaded it on my trailer but I got it running today, the plastic crossover pipe is cracked, I ordered a new one and JB welded the old one so I could work on it. Power Steering pump was about out of fluid so I filled it and the steering works fine, but power steering fluid does not just evaporate so I probably have a bit of work there. I got the top to go down, need to replace the canvas but it is in good working order. Otherwise the car is in good shape, 120K miles, a bit of mildew inside and on the top, and it seems to be missing on acceleration. But I like the car, I am just finishing up a 2003 SL500 which was clean but had a lot of problems. Nice car though. I look forward to learning this car and hope to find a lot of good info and input on this forum.

Capt Mike

 

Welcome to the Forums.

Lots of fun in your future, but simple enough in reality.

Good luck.

 

Welcome aboard Mike.

 

Welcome to Jaguar Forums Mike,

Good to have you with us.
Enjoy the forum.

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Hello, Mike,
Congratulations on your new Jaguar XK8, although I'm sorry about how you got it.
I decided some time ago that my Next Jaguar would be one of those.

Welcome to the forums from ElinorB.
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