New member from Cornwall

[DaveO]

Just joined up but I seem to have missed a membership number during the process. I have recently bought a 2004 XKR coupe' in BRG. It will spend most of its remaining life sat in my warm comfy garage as I'm told it will be a good investment, not sure if the wife believes me, ha

[mike020150]

Hi Dave,
Welcome! If you have just joined, you will receive a membership card with your membership number on it.

Owning an XKR is about driving rather than investing. If the car appreciates, that's a bonus! Happy motoring. Mike.

[Andy P]

Hi DaveO,
Welcome to the JEC.
Not sure how far down in Cornwall you are but I know there is quite an active XK8 group around the Tamar area .
Post some photo's if you can.
Hope you enjoy your car.
Take Care.
Andy

[DaveO]

Hi Dave,
Welcome! If you have just joined, you will receive a membership card with your membership number on it.

Owning an XKR is about driving rather than investing. If the car appreciates, that's a bonus! Happy motoring. Mike.

Thank you Mike, my pack arrived this morning and very pleased with the mag which will be very useful for spares etc. I have owned a few jags going back along and got married in an E Type in 1971. I wish I had kept all my sports cars!!! This XKR purchase is just for something decent to drive when the sun is shining and me and wife are going on a trip together. I drive a Freelander for my general workhorse and wife has own car. I shall probably try to restrict mileage to 5K/annum and have just transferred insurance to Footman James.

When I had an engineering company in Oxford I did a lot of work for TWR leading up to Jaguar reclaiming their GroupC LeMans title so you could say I have a great affection for the Marque.

[DaveO]

Hi DaveO,
Welcome to the JEC.
Not sure how far down in Cornwall you are but I know there is quite an active XK8 group around the Tamar area .
Post some photo's if you can.
Hope you enjoy your car.
Take Care.
Andy

Thank you Andy ! I am in N.Cornwall near Wadebridge. I travel a lot to Mylor on the south coast but not much to Plymouth area. I will take some pics of the latest acquisition soon as I have caught my breath with dvla etc etc etc

[mike020150]

Hi dave,

With that TWR connection, you should book a place at the Club's AGM where Richard West will be giving us a talk about his time with TWR. Richard is a good speaker and will be sharing some previously unseen material. It would be worth the long drive! Mike.

[DaveO]

Colour me dumb Mike but please tell me how I subscribe for notifications of new posts on the entire XK8 forum and topics. I have tried hard to find this, I really have, promise

[mike020150]

Hi Dave,
Try this. Ensure you are signed in. Click on your username (just above to the far right). That will take you to the user control panel. Click on Board Preferences. Click on Edit Notification Options. That should do it. Mike.

[DaveO]

Thanks Mike, looks like I have been there and ticked all the boxes but the submit buttons were not greyed out so I hit those again. I am not experienced at forums but I think what I am missing is to see how I subscribe to a forum, or to a topic. Like right click on XK8 and hit subscribe. No amount of clicking reveals a subscribe option. Also I cannot find a user guide to the forum ?

[mike020150]

Hi Dave,
Check the FAQs (link above). I think you will find all the answers you are looking for are located there. Mike.

[wombat]

Hi DaveO,

Welcome.

There is a Modern XK group that meets at Lifton Farm Shop once a month, let me know if you are interested and I can send you the details.

[DaveO]

Hi Dave,
Check the FAQs (link above). I think you will find all the answers you are looking for are located there. Mike.

Thanks Mike, I spent a little time there but will diary a lot more

[DaveO]

Hi DaveO,

Welcome.

There is a Modern XK group that meets at Lifton Farm Shop once a month, let me know if you are interested and I can send you the details.

Yeah, definitely interested, nice little A.30 drive for the spoilt brat in the summer months (my XKR). I will pm you.

[DaveO]

Hi DaveO,

Welcome.

There is a Modern XK group that meets at Lifton Farm Shop once a month, let me know if you are interested and I can send you the details.

Yeah, definitely interested, nice little A.30 drive for the spoilt brat in the summer months (my XKR). I will pm you.

Have tried twice to PM you with my email address but I suspect it has not worked, saved draft but its been lost!

[wombat]

I have sent you my e-mail address, if you can use this I will pick up your e-mail address.