Have you ever heard the expression, “My momma told me that there will be days like these”? Well, we’re having one of those days with our 1995 Jaguar XJ6. Astute readers will recall that we drove it home from the Service Department of the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Greenhills dealership (All British Cars, Inc. or ABC) on a Friday (January ...
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1995 Jaguar XJ6 4.0 SWB Part 7: Debugging Our Big Cat
After our 1995 Jaguar XJ6 was cleaned and detailed by our good friends from Meguiar’s Philippines at the end of August 2021, we left our now-elegant and shiny Power Wheels Magazine project car at the workshop of JSK Custom Paint and Auto Works in Marulas, Valenzuela City for their technicians to continue retracing and fixing the wires that were chewed ...
Read More »1995 Jaguar XJ6 4.0 SWB Part 6: Getting the Meguiar’s Car Care Treatment
The last time we wrote about our 1995 Jaguar XJ6 project car was in March, when the technicians at JSK Custom Paint and Body Works were checking the drivetrain more thoroughly after they got it started and running. The 4.0-liter double overhead cam (DOHC) 24-valve (24V) AJ16 inline 6-cylinder engine started easily and was running smoothly while the ZF 4HP-24 ...
Read More »1995 Jaguar XJ6 4.0 SWB Part 5: The Real Work Commences
It has been two months since we got our 1995 Jaguar XJ6 Power Wheels Magazine project car that we found abandoned behind a building in Parañaque. So far, we’ve washed the car, repaired the front grille, reattached the Leaper hood ornament, repaired some of the wires and hoses that were chewed by rats, had the gas tank cleaned and checked ...
Read More »1995 Jaguar XJ6 4.0 SWB Part 4: Our Big Cat is Alive and Running!
In Part 3 of our Power Wheels Magazine Project Car series, we gave our 1995 Jaguar XJ6 4.0 SWB a long-overdue carwash ourselves just so we can remove around three years worth of grime off the Sea Frost Blue paint finish, as well as glide our hands across the British luxury car’s graceful curves. We were able to fix the ...
Read More »1995 Jaguar XJ6 4.0 SWB Part 3: A Bath and a Battery for our Big Cat
In our previous report, we had our 1995 Jaguar XJ6 4.0-liter short wheelbase (SWB) luxury sedan, which we bought for only P50,000, towed by an Auto Transporter flatbed tow truck from its “resting spot” behind the MMM Building along the East Service Road in Parañaque to the workshop of JSK Custom Paint and Auto Works in Marulas, Valenzuela City. Once ...
Read More »1995 Jaguar XJ6 4.0 SWB Part 2: We Got Ourselves a British Luxury Car for Only P50,000!
In our previous report, we wrote that on December 17, 2020, we went to Parañaque to inspect a 1995 Jaguar XJ6 4.0 short wheelbase (SWB) luxury sedan (known as the X300 within the factory) that was left unattended after its owner died while in another country. We found that it had deteriorated significantly after being exposed to the elements for ...
Read More »1995 Jaguar XJ6 4.0 SWB Part 1: Finding an Abandoned Cat
It started innocently enough. On October 11, 2020, we were having a snack after test driving the 2020 Jaguar I-Pace electric vehicle around the Arthaland Sevina Park real estate project in Biñan, Laguna. I was halfway through a delectable Wolfgang Angus Beef Burger when Chris Ward, the president of All British Cars, Inc., asked me a question that would unwittingly ...
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