1987 Jaguar Xj6, Great Candidate For V8 Conversion, Mild Restoration, Or Parts on 2040-cars
Saint Joseph, Michigan, United States
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I purchased this car last year to use as a daily driver (pd $4200 & invested in new: Good Year tires, headliner, starter and more. Car ran great including one big interstate trip (3 hrs), then one day coming home the head gasket blew. I had heard this was a common outcome as the car approached 100K miles. I have decided not to keep the car as I don't have time to put into it. (The head gasket has not been repaired). It has been starting up with no issue. Car is sold as is…. The car has aprox. 100k miles & has been starting up fine despite the bad gasket, the car is complete with the exception that someone stole the rear trunk emblems (jaguar & xj6) off which were held on with an adhesive to the car. The A/C & Heat were working when I was driving it, the car is stock, (Air pump, emissions etc in place). It was passing Wi inspection up to 2 yrs ago. I bought it via a dealer (took it on a trade from what appears to be the original owner), who also had it serviced by the dealer. Title (my name), excellent tan interior & dash, straight body, decent paint BUT some rust where pans meet trans tunnel & where they meet the jack point, pans appear otherwise solid it’s just the welds that have decayed. This car could make someone a great V8 conversion or simply repair the headgasket and keep it stock. If I was going to swap to a Chevy 350 I would repair the floor pan welds while the engine and trans were out. Otherwise the floor carpet could be removed and the pans tacked back to the tunnel and jack points. Paint is in fair condition, but some general tidying can keep the car looking fine as is. The interior and dash will impress anyone as they are in great shape. (Tan leather being quite desirable). If someone wants a the car for a V8 conversion I may be willing to pull the motor and trans keep them for a modest reduction in price. Car is priced very low for quick sale, payment is due at end of auction, please don’t bid if you are not sure you want the car & feel free to ask me questions. Shipping is the sole responsibility of the buyer, but I am happy to work with your shipper to get it loaded or deliver it within an hour of southwest michigan. VIN: SAJAV1345HC465363 |
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Jaguar Project 7 concept is an F-Type in a D-Type mold [w/video]
Wed, 10 Jul 2013In addition to the XJR, XFR-S and XKR-S GT models Jaguar is bringing to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend, the manufacturer announced that the F-Type-based, D-Type-inspired Project 7 design study will make its "dynamic" debut at the festival, with driving duties assigned to Mike Cross, Jaguar's chief engineer of vehicle integrity. Here's the cool part: With Jaguar's Director of Design, Ian Callum, leading the team responsible for Project 7, it went from the drawing board to track testing in only four months, Jaguar states, with a claimed 0-60 time of 4.1 seconds and top speed of 186 miles per hour.
Project 7, which was named in honor of Jaguar's seven wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, will be making runs up the hill at Goodwood over all three days of the festival, which starts at the Goodwood House in West Sussex, England, this Friday.
Far from a fragile concept car, Jaguar says, the single-seat Project 7 is a fully functional sports car. It uses the all-aluminum chassis and body of the F-Type, retains that car's 550-horsepower, supercharged 5.0-liter V8 and eight-speed automatic transmission but features lots of bespoke carbon fiber aerodynamic bits, some of which were inspired by the Le Mans-winning D-Type of the 1950s. The most obvious nod to that classic is the rear fairing with integrated rollover hoop - the F-Type's convertible top is gone. The windshield was also lowered, giving the roadster a more rakish silhouette as it sits on 20-inch forged-alloy wheels with carbon fiber inserts.
Jaguar says F-Type sales off to flying start
Fri, 31 May 2013As we noted in our recent first drive, Jaguar's luscious new F-Type roadster is a bit of a tweener in both size and cost, lining up in between rival Porsche's Boxster and 911. That one-for-two-segment strategy is showing early signs of paying off, with Automotive News reporting that half of the car's 2014 production allotment is already sold. We're not talking huge numbers - sports cars in this segment only "have a global annual volume of about 75,000 units and a market share of 0.1 percent," notes Jaguar brand director Adrian Hallmark. Yet the company figures the F-Type will work out to about 15 to 20 percent of its total volume of around 60,000 units.
From where we sit, this is all very encouraging news, but it's way too early to call the F-Type a smash hit. The sports car segment is known for its fickleness and its front-loaded sales curve, so the real measure of success will be how it fares over the next few years after early adopters get their cars. Jaguar will have to work to keep the F-Type fresh with new variants, and we hear it's prepared to do just that. The British luxury marque hasn't confirmed a hardtop coupe variant yet, but patent images and spy shots suggest one is on the way shortly, and it ought to extend the model's appeal greatly. A four-cylinder option and a manual transmission have also been rumored, and presumably Jaguar will eventually launch higher-performance R and R-S variants as it has done with various model lines, including its other sporty two door, the XK grand tourer.
Jaguar could yet offer more hardcore F-Type R-S
Mon, 25 Nov 2013Jaguar pulled a fast one on us all when it unexpectedly shoehorned all 550 horsepower of the 5.0-liter supercharged V8 from the XKR-S into the new F-Type Coupe to supersede the existing V8 S model with the F-Type R. But that's just the beginning, according to the latest intel coming from the UK.
According to Autocar, in speaking to Jaguar design director Ian Callum during the coupe's unveiling at the LA Auto Show, the British automaker could yet offer R-S and R-S GT versions of the F-Type. Just what mechanical changes those would bring when the F-Type R already packs the company's top engine remains to be seen, but given that the same engine also powers the flagship XJR performance saloon, we could envision Jaguar developing an even more powerful version for R-S versions of the little coupe and big sedan.
The GT version, meanwhile, would likely offer more extreme aero and a lighter form for the truly performance-obsessed. Considering that the new top-of-the-line F-Type is already pushing the hundred-grand mark, you can bet any R-S and R-S GT version would approach double the base F-Type's $65k sticker price.