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11-23-2011, 01:17 PM

Sparky-88

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Gizmo Lives!

After many weeks of non-stop bad luck with our old family cars, I finally had a spot of good news. Gizmo, our ’86 Jaguar XJ6, is alive again! It’s been in the shop since late Sept. I was getting ready to pull the plug and sell it for parts. But my mechanic and one of his new guys (former custom car builder w/great machine shop skills) were able to fabricate a couple parts to prevent having to replace the entire cylinder head assembly. Saved me about $2500 in the process.

We’ve still decided to get rid of Gizmo, but at least now I can sell it rather than practically giving it away. We already bought a ’95 Mercedes C280 from a former colleague of mine to replace it. The C280 needs quite a bit of work but all pretty straightforward stuff. Should be a good, solid, dependable car once I work through the checklist of faults.

Anyone near N. AL that wants a sharp old Jag, drop me a line and make an offer. Special deal for MCF’ers only! (Check out my Garage for pic’s. It’s the dark blue 4-door sedan. Or go to my Photobucket album: <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w

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11-23-2011, 06:53 PM

The_Maniac

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Nice Jag man! I agree, if you're going to sell it, it is MUCH better to sell as a RUNNING car!! That is GREAT news!

11-23-2011, 07:01 PM

BlackRainSS

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Congrats man! Great news

11-23-2011, 10:41 PM

03JGMonte

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That is a pretty sweet Jaguar

11-24-2011, 05:53 AM

Space

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Hi Dave,
It's always great to read good news on the MCF

It's great that you found someone with the talents to do the repairs..
I do like your Jag (Good Luck on a Sale), but I also like your replacement.

Wish you good luck on getting it the way you want it to `be.

11-24-2011, 11:52 AM

Sparky-88

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Thanks, Space. Picture silver instead of black and our new/old C280 ('Blitz' - named by my son) looks just like the pic you posted.

Just got Blitz back from the shop yesterday. A couple flaky instruments that I couldn't fix. Turns out the instrument cluster had a couple bad solder joints. It's great having a good mechanic who will troubleshoot / fix a problem rather than just replacing components like the dealer would do.

11-24-2011, 12:39 PM

Enzo354

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That thing is CLEAN! Congrats on getting it running.

11-24-2011, 09:12 PM

lougreen03

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Beautiful car you've got there. I would love to own one someday. I looked at one 2 years ago for 2000 but my buddy has one and has to go 2 1/2 hours away for service so I decided it wasn't practical for me.