2015-07-24 08:53:17 | pauls writes:

Ebay item 7/24/15
www.ebay.com/itm/Jaguar-XJ12-NO-RESERVE-/181811124697
Current bid US $3,100, no reserve 35 bids 9 days left in auction.

Sellers description:
Runs and drives, and you can enjoy it as is with some maintenance done in the future. It needs a good restoration, but everything is there, just needs someone to do a correct restoration on it.

I will try my best to describe the car in full, but please view all the pictures, they will tell you a lot about the car. This is the original color which you don't see often. Jaguars of this vintage seem to be in the later shades, like silver, white, etc. This is a beautiful color combination, Deep Dark blue, with medium blue interior, very stunning, it really shows off the bright work when polished, it is a very rich looking car in this scheme, can't wait to see it all done one day, it will be a show stopper. The body is in nice shape, very few dings, very straight. There are no signs of any major accidents, inside the inner aprons, and inner truck panels, very clean and accident free. I know in the last 30 years it has had 3 owners, besides my friend. It was originally sold in Los Angeles, CA, at Boyd Petersen IMP - Jaguar. The original owner bought it and sold it around 1986. It was then sold to gentleman who put it in his personal collection, he owned the car for over 20 years. He sold it in 2005 to another gentleman in Washington state. The car developed a fuel delivery issue, and got parked in his barn for about 9 years. It is believed that it has 42,308 miles on it. I do not have documentation on it, but when you look at the brake pedal, the steering wheel, and other things that would show wear, they are in good shape. This car has sat outside at times, sat in a barn for 9 years, so it is not perfect, it has weather wear on it inside and out. It was pulled out of the barn about 5 months ago, and we fixed the fuel delivery problem, got it running again. It was great to get it back on the road, then my friends health issues stopped the progress on getting this car further to a long life of recovery came to a halt. The body is in great shape, it has been painted at least once, from what I can tell. There are some rust issues that will have to be attended to. There are 3 main areas, which shouldn't be to difficult. The first is on the drivers lower fender, there is a large area, you can see it in the pictures, nice thing is it is really isolated to this area, a couple bubbles right below in the seam, but fairly easy to fix. The other area is under the passenger side mirror, you can see an area of bubbling as well. There is some rust on the passenger floor, you can see it underneath the car, it will at least need a front floor pan, it meets up toward the front toe board. The rest of the car actually looks very good. Areas were you would usually find rust is actually very good on this car. The rockers are in excellent condition, the bottoms of the doors, the quarters panels are in excellent shape, the rear valance area is very good. There are a couple small bubbles around the front side of the wheel lip, on passenger quarter wheel lip, pretty minor though, but will need repaired. The original vinyl top looks decent, but it will need replaced you can see a few pea size bubbles underneath. This XJC is very solid, but it will need to have some body repairs that I mentioned earlier. The bad thing is that they are there, but the good thing is that they are very isolated spots, still has to be fixed but very straight forward. The paint when waxed will hold a nice gloss, but it is older paint obviously.
Mechanically the car is in good shape, we do have it running. It does start right up, engine sounds great. It does not burn any oil, or blow any smoke, runs nice and smooth. It will need a good tune up, plugs wires, general maintenance when owning a vintage Jaguar. The water pump works, but it has a slow leak out of the weep hole, you can drive it around the block, but until that is fixed, and you put some new tires on it (tires are no good on it), then driving is really very limited. Everything under the hood looks all there, nothing missing, looks in order. The AC unit is not working it is seized. We have driven down the road, and for its age it does drive nice for its current condition. The transmission shifts nice and smooth, the brake works. In general the car just needs a good maintenance done on it, before you plan on driving it. All the exterior lights are working, turn signals, brake lights etc. You will want to check everything over, we have not gone through the brakes or anything like that, or serviced the transmission etc. We just got it into the position that it can be driven and to evaluate that the drive train is in good working order. It does stop, and the brakes seem to be in decent shape, and trans shifts nice and smooth.

The interior is original, but as you can see it has started to age, the leather on the seats have started to crack and split in areas. The door panels, and other areas, the material has started to come loose. Basically it depends what you want to do with the car, but in general, everything in the interior will need a little attention, some things more then others. The instrument area is in good shape, the wood grain looks in nice shape. The steering wheel is in nice condition does not have any cracking. The center console is nice, but needs some of the inserts refinished. Dash pad looks very usable, no visible cracks. The passenger side window does not roll down, the drivers, and quarter windows work. The gauges in the instrument cluster do work, look at the pictures and you will see a picture while driving, very good oil pressure, amp gauge, fuel, all working, tach and speedo, all functioning correctly. The windows are in good shape, no chips no cracks. The headliner is in good shape as well.