Minor update - the underbonnet works are mostly completed. Notice the damage caused by brake fluid leakage, this tracked along every seam and ran down the brake pipe to where it meets the fuel line. The next images show primed in Bilt Hamber high Zinc (two rust treatments and sandings carried out pr...

I tend to do my scale models in winter, I struggle with arthritis and that just ain't no fun at all when the hands get cold, hell it ain't no fun when they aren't. I swore when I got this car that I wasn't going to end up with another collection of car parts, that it was going to be a rolling refurb...

I posted here yesterday despite having been a member for over a year and a Jag owner for many more years, it was suggested that some here may appreciate some notes on my descent into insanity, I'll try to keep this up to date with progress. My victim is a 1987 V12 HE - the last before all the ABS an...

So I joined here a year ago - yeh you heard a year ago - wasn't aware of these forums. Anyhow I have two Jaguars. A 1987 XJS Coupe V12 and a 2008 SV8 (crazy rare) which I've owned for many years, the XJS only a year. When I got the XJS I thought it would be a simple resurrection - change some fluids...