The British Muscle Car
I can’t believe I have never seen these before. Thank you Wayne for sending them to me. Here are three videos of different XJC Musters in Australia. I doubt there is anywhere else in the world that has so many XJC’s gather in one place. The main picture above is of Wayne’s beast of an XJ12C, and at the bottom is a video of it on the dyno…..enjoy…….
Continue reading “XJC’s Everywhere”
For your reading pleasure, Greg introduced me to his website that goes through a pretty cool coupe build. He took a coupe with a non-running V12 and replaced it with a later model HE V12 and GM400 transmission. What’s really impressive is he did the work himself.
Last summer my wife bought me the Original Technical Publications document collection for the XJ. If you are the type of person who enjoys researching these cars, then I highly recommend buying this. The documents and information are really cool, but the user experience could be better.
Yesterday I spent time with a very special pre-production XJ12C that was used for development. Continue reading “Reynolds Museum XJ12C”
Merry Christmas from my family to yours…..I hope 2018 brings much happiness with your families….and your cars 🙂
For the maintenance, repair and projects that I outline, I have used the following: Continue reading “Resources I use”
I am the fourth owner and the second enthusiast owner of the car. The third owner kept a detailed log of service and parts, so the car has a detailed history from ’85 to present.
The car was originally silver and was repainted GM Arctic White by the second owner in ’83. Above is what the car looked like new.
At the time I was living in Milwaukee, so I took a flight to Omaha, was met by the seller and we went to see the car. It looked amazing. We finished the deal and I hit the road for the drive back to Milwaukee. Continue reading “Homecoming”
Sometime in ’97 I saw an interesting coupe in our town that I couldn’t recognize. After some investigation, I found out that the cream with black vinyl top car was an XJ6C. I researched the car and found out that there was a V12 version. That sounded really exotic….who wouldn’t want to own a V12 car. I had grown up around American muscle cars, but didn’t really feel like I fit in a black ’76 Trans Am any more. This V12 coupe seemed to have the DNA of any good muscle car……a large engine packed inside a shorten sedan body. Continue reading “The Hunt”