Shandangles '84 XJS v12 manual

[Shandangles]

Its been a couple of years since my last post!

I had a 986 Boxster S for a while ( https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/83711-shandangles-986/#comment-2491579 )

That was great fun before my Daughter was born, However once she was here, as you can imagine a 2 seater sports car barely moved for months on end. So sometime near the end of 2022 we sold it for precisely what it owed us apart from Fuel!! Owned it for about a year, spent +/- $6000 on parts, maintenance, insurance and rego we sold it for $6000 more than we bought it for!! Cant complain about that!

Like everybody the past 2 years have been absolutely hectic, the Mrs. had a knee reco, I had heart surgery, now have a 2.5 year old, with anther on the way and have just bought a commercial investment property so we haven't really had time or money for a toy, until very recently! 

I have been wasting countless hours on various car selling sites looking for something that tickles my fancy that the Mrs. would allow.  I like wagons and with the kids and dogs I thought that would be cool, but "they all look like a hearse" was always the response. So it seemed wagons were off the table. I was back to square 1.

One night I was mindlessly scrolling Carsales.com.au and stumbled across this Jag. I more or less straight away said to the Mrs. "i think this is it" amazingly she wasn't completely against the idea. So a day or 2 later I called the owner, an old bloke called James in Rural south Australia and arranged a PPI at the 1 local garage in town 🤣. I was happy enough with the results, had a couple of oil leaks, the drivers headlight wasnt working and the oil filter was from 2016 were the main bits. 
 

This was the end of October. It took about month to organise the transport from Adelaide to Brisbane etc. Turned up 3rd Dec to my place. Glorious

Leaving old mate James place in Clare, SA

At the Shipping yard

 

[Shandangles]

A little bit of info about the car. 

Its 1984 XJS HE (high efficency) with the 5.3l v12 with approx 130,000km and has been converted to manual using factory interior bits and a later model jag Getrag 265 5 speed gearbox, this is the main reason i bought the car, The only manual V12 ill ever be able to buy.
Has had a bit of suspension work (lowering and swaybars) is run by an  old MOTEC M4, has a full complement of VDO gauges in place of the factory dash as well as dual 6-2-1 headers and a full exhaust. So in theory at least it should be a bit more reliable then its reputation suggests 😅

All of the work has been kept in a folder, the manual swap, suspension TWR wheels and some maintenance were all done at the same time at the cost of $36k AUD back in about 2011 😧

[Shandangles]

Since arriving up to my place in Brisbane, I've given the diff, box and engine oil changes, sorted out the headlight issue which turned out being a dicky contact on the headlight relay and tried getting a RWC which is essentially a WoF which unfortunately it failed on the 30th. due to worn front subframe bushes and has slightly chewed out front tires. So overall fuck all really, was suitably stoaked.

have ordered tires and all 4 front subframe mount bushes, just waiting on auspost so bring them so I can get it sussed!!

Will add more pics while refitting the bushes!!