In Part 1 of this Power Wheels Magazine Project Car series, we narrated how we came across an online ad about a 1990 Nissan Cefiro 2.4 GTS-R, how we were able to buy it for just P50,000, and how we took it from San Benito Sur, Aringay, La Union on board a borrowed flatbed tow truck and deposited it at ...

When the Nissan Cefiro 2.4 GTS-R (A31) was launched in 1989, I was working as a salesman for Metro Motors, a Nissan dealership located at the ground floor of the Atrium Building along Makati Avenue in Makati City. The brand’s local distributor at that time, Nissan Motor Philippines, Inc. (NMPI), allowed the dealers to come up with their own in-house ...

After reading about our 1995 Jaguar XJ6 (X300) project car here in our Power Wheels Magazine website, our good friend Rodger Yu invited us to take a look at two Jaguars that he’s planning to restore for his two sons. He sent us photos of his two cars and we found out that they are XJ40-series XJ6s that were made ...

This 2nd week of September 2021 marks 50 years since my 1971 Chevrolet Camaro RS has been assembled at the General Motors (GM) plant in Norwood, Ohio, USA.  I bought the Camaro as a project car in 1996, restored it and displayed it in the Trans Sport Show in 1998, stored it from 2003 to 2008, revived it in 2009 ...

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 ...

After the COVID-19 pandemic hit the whole world in 2020, most businesses catering to the publication and entertainment industries suffered a sharp decline in their earnings. Our company was not immune to the worldwide economic slowdown. One of the initial measures we took to save our dwindling precious resources was to temporarily mothball our project cars, including our Mercedes-Benz W126. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...