New seats have arrived!

 

When I bought the car it had no seats, as built for racing in 1976 it was fitted with a seat from a powerboat but that was long gone and I’ve  only seen it in photographs.

It’s a little early for these but I discovered some electrically operated front seats with picnic tables from a Daimler XJ40 on E Bay and matching rear seats on Facebook marketplace from a Jaguar XJ40.

The front seats fit well, they are much smaller than original MK8 seats. The back seats are the exact width but the backrest is shorter so might need some modification. It looks good though.

 

Shiny New Wheels

 

Can’t wait to get these fitted! 

6 x 15 inch rather than the standard 5 x 16 and with a bigger offset they will fill the cavernous wheelarches perfectly. Same as were fitted to the magnesium bodied Mark 7 built by Jaguar.

 

Rear screen pillar rust repair

Rusted holes in several places due to the padding behind it getting wet.
Awkward shape in that it curves in several dimensions. 

Started by making a mould of the shape with body filler 
using masking tape to stop it sticking to the metal

Cut the sheet metal and folded an edge on it then
started to shape it with a shrinker/stretcher 

First of many trial fits

Nearly there!

Butt welded after cutting out the exact matching shape

Fully welded ready for grinding smooth

Ground flat and ready for lead loading

Leaded and filed ready for primer

Finished and trying to decide on a colour

Rear Valance

 

   

Panels back from stripping and coating

 

Nearside sill and floor repairs

Lead Loading

 

All the panel joints on Jaguars up until the 1980’s were lead filled so all mine will be the same. Unlike body filler, lead won’t crack or fall off it’s bumped.