Restoration Time on a Very Old Jag

Well, I see that it was about 4-1/2 years ago that Dale worked on the latch and we thought that we’d get the car running then. I’m guessing that we were called away to work and for the past 2 years we have been busy the entire time.

Feeling very British with my pint while blogging

When we got home from claims in Toronto and then helping in Oregon, we decided enough was enough. Time to work on cars!

We assessed the situation, the Jag has an immense amount of work, most of it trying to figure out how to repair the 60+year old handmade car. We decided that we’d involve professionals who could get this done within our lifetime. We had discussed the 2 repair companies who we are familiar with and decided to go with British Sports Cars in San Luis Obispo. This is a 2-1/2 hour drive from us.

I gave Dale his cell phone and insisted that he call to set an appointment to bring the car in. No more messing around. He called and set an appointment for this coming Monday, July 9. We will trailer the car over in the morning.

Looking up the phone number for British Sports Cars

Now Dale decided that we should try to have the seats recovered prior to our trailering the car. Unfortunately, bolts under the seat are bolted in and rusted so it became a project that was not really do-able in the short amount of time. We will let British Sports Cars remove the seats and then Dale can rebuild the frame and we can have them recovered.

Unfortunately, 4-1/2 years ago, as blogged, Dale took the latching system apart. This had to be put back together. Only 1-1/2 days were needed for that little chore.

Now we are getting the car ready for her big trip to San Luis where she will get ready for some fun driving. What is really fun is that our boys are 200% behind our driving these cars, as Nate said: "I hope you race it".

We are looking so forward to joining a local Jaguar Club or 2 and participating in their activities. And just maybe I'll even retire a little bit so we can drive.