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Restoring an '82 XJ6 is putting good money after bad IMO. If one must restore an XJ6 (and lose all your money--but hey, that's your decision), then by all means pick an 86-87.
The car was in my family since new. I want to see it in its former glory. If i lose my money in restoration so be it. I will get my money back in a races i do with my 70's camaro i-rocz.
and i also like the looks and feel of the '82 jaguar xj6. i own both cars. the 86 jaguar xj6 is sitting in the back of my garage behind my chevy suburban which is behind my 82 jaguar xj6.
my entire collection of cars includes; a '76 chevy suburban, 2007 gmc yukon, '82 jaguar xj6, 86 jaguar xj6, nissan 370z, nissan skyline r34 gtr, 2007 saturn aura, 2010 lincoln mkx, 2008 gmc sierra, s '86 chevy camaro irocz, a 71 chevy chevelle ss.
almost all of them are project vehicles. except the gmc sierra and the chevy camaro
Interesting.....
What's an "irocz"?
this is a chevy camaro Irocz
That isn't a 1976 and it' IROC!
I don't believe there is any such thing as a '76 IROC
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i know thats not a 76 i just went online and found that picture. and i call the IROCs IROC-Z
Oh, YOU call IROC's IROC-Z's. I get it.
There wasn't!
yeah i got mixed up in the date okay. i was about a decade off in the dates. i corrected it. i have stuff on my mind.
ok. i usually know lots of stuff about cars. but there are people who know more. Thanks for catching my mistake in my dates. i used to own a 76 camaro but it got totaled because of a drunk driver. i bought the 86 IROC-Z with the money i got from the insurance company. that would be why i got confused
It looks like Jordan has been a busy guy since he joined these forums on Jan 22!
According to his profile he's added that Jaguar to his collection as well as that 71 Chevelle and a Nissan 370Z! If he buys Andre's truck he'll REALLY have a collection!
I actually still own that camaro but its used for parts and i dont consider it part of my collection.
i am busy. ive been searching high and low for cars i can get and i race during the spring -the fall to pay for what i get during the winter. But i am right now fixing up my race car. which sits in the back of my shop so i can work on it on slow days of work.
ive just recieved the jaguar from my dad today and i recieved the chevelle from my dad last week. after i did the restoration and modification of that car. So i get some cars from my parents some from friends and some i buy. i go to junkyard and fix up what i get from the junkyard
The Nissan 370Z i bought from some guy who wanted to get rid of the car for whatever he could get for it.
I've heard of those Camaros being referred to as IROC-Z's, as well. I remember the IROC came out in 1985, and I was thinking that it replaced the Z-28. But, according to Wikipedia, the IROC was actually an option for the Z-28. Wikipedia also refers to them as the IROC-Z.
Oh, as for Andre's truck, I went home on my lunch break, got the truck started (reluctantly), and drove it back to work. The fast idle isn't working, so it didn't do too well until it warmed up a bit. But, it got me to work without stalling out.
And if I'm lucky, it won't leave me stranded at work like that '79 New Yorker of mine would do on occasion. Thankfully I don't work too far from home, and started keeping a pair of running shoes in the NY'er, just in case. Might be a good idea to transfer them to the truck if I'm going to start driving it again!
Good Idea. I like how your truck looks. have you ever thought of a restoration of that truck. And yeah the IROC-Z was an option for the z28
I liked the wheels and tires of the IROC-Z's (I call them that, too) and remember seeing them when I shopped for a new Chevy in '85 (conservative me, I ordered a Celebrity Eurosport). But I HATED their dumb commercial, "I ROCK AND ROLL!".
That truck was a good looker in it's day for sure!
I hate that comercial. but i still bought the car. and i use it for my day to day driving.
I agree. For some odd reason, I like the styling on that series of Chevy trucks. Kind of timeless for a truck.
that truck shure would have turned some heads in its day.
That truck was the last new vehicle Granddad bought, and he was very proud of it. In the past, he'd always bought trucks to use as trucks were intended to be used...as workhorses. But by the time he got this one, those days were getting behind him. After he died in 1990, it sat around alot. I lived with my grandparents when I was in college, and I'd drive it to work once or twice a week, to keep it running. But, we had a bad habit of parking it on the grass, which will take its toll on a vehicle eventually.
In 1994, my uncle bought a new truck, a stripper GMC Sierra. I remember asking him why he didn't just use Granddad's old truck, and he replied that it was too "nice". He was working in construction, and would get the interior of a vehicle filthy and muddy in record time. The Sierra just had a rubber mat, no carpeting, vinyl seat, and hard plastic door panels. This '85 Silverado is pretty cushy inside, in comparison.
A year or two after that, Grandmom gave the truck to my Mom and stepdad, and they'd use it for hauling hay, towing their boat (even though it's not really set up for towing and I think it has a tall-ish 2.56:1 axle). It sat around alot with them too, and again, usually on the grass.
In 2002, they bought an end-of-the-model year F150, and sold me the truck. It only had about 109,000 miles on it, but was showing its age. Now it's up to around 140,000.
As bad as the thing is looking, I have a feeling that somehow, Granddad would be proud of the fact that we had kept it around for so long. A couple of months before he died back in 1990, he bought a brand-new lawn tractor, with the rationale that he knew he was dying, and he figured that between me and my uncle, we'd end up killing the two old ones we already had...a 1984 Hechinger and a 1969 Simplicity Landlord that was sold through Montgomery Ward. So, he probably had a gut feeling that my uncle and I would kill the truck in short order, too!
Anyone willing to take this project on?
Hey, the seller says this will be a "relatively easy project"
Why not?
http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/cto/4321026765.html
Yeah. The heavy chevy had exclusive bodyside stripes and SS hood. I think that the 307 was base but that you could order a 400 SB
Probably some difficult parts there, might be worth something to a devotee. But it looks like you'd be a long ways from being on the road.
It was meant to be a joke on my part. That seller needs to call a junkyard to come scoop all of that junk up!
@jirdan40
If that XJ6 wasn't a family heirloom, I'd jump on board with everyone and say forget about it.
If you want one to show off, find a right hand drive. I was behind one and I could see out its' windshield because the driver wasn't in the way.
After how long that truck has been in your family the only thing i would do to it is restore it and give it back to you. I know how getting rid of something that was in the family and getting rid of it is very hard to do. I could never buy this truck off of you. but i would be willing to restore it.
i actually thought about scrapping the car. But i found pictures of it and my parents at car shows. The car actually won some car shows in its time. So the car wont be scrapped
The Jaguar XJ6 is actually pretty clean. Very little rust on the body. But i need some parts for the rear suspension. But i cant get rid of it
Jag suspension parts seem to have a following among some hot rodders - I bet you can find them if you look.
That's a sweet thought, but I'm really not that attached to it. I kinda just want it gone! Now, something I do have a fond memory of...Granddad bought a '53 DeSoto Firedome off of his brother in law back in 1978 for about $200. It had been wrecked...it was BIL's mother's car, bought new, and she had a heart attack while driving it and hit a parked car. The car went into storage, and years later, when she passed on (unrelated to the accident), Granddad bought it when BIL settled the estate. I remember going with Granddad to a junkyard in the summer of '78, and he got a hood, fender, bumper, and all the grille teeth, and some trim, for around $90. Put the car back together, but never painted it, so the original car was a seafoam green, while the hood and fender were a darker greenish-blue. Just as I got to driving age, and set my sights on that car, Granddad sold it, saying he didn't want me to have it because I'd bring it back to him to fix every time it broke. But, I ended up doing that anyway with Mom's '80 Malibu, which ended up being my first car, so Granddad didn't totally get off the hook.
Anyway, the guy that bought that DeSoto in 1986 tried to jump start it with a 12-volt, fried it. Lost interest, pushed it to the edge of the woods in back of his house. And to this day, it's still sitting there. I wonder what kind of condition it's in by now? It was rust free when Granddad sold it. And while it wouldn't start, it would at least crank.
Sometimes I think that car would be kinda cool to have, and salvage. It was the car that got me interested in DeSotos in the first place. But, once I saw how much cooler looking the more recent DeSotos were, I gravitated towards them. That '53 is just a ghost from the past now, slowly returning to its base elements. Might still have some good trim pieces on it though, who knows?
Jordan, what kind of racing do you do where a profit is involved?
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I do drag racing, and i put wages on the line, and some circuit race
Andre,
I've jump started a couple of 6 volt cars from 12 volt cars but you have to be very careful.
You have to make sure that the radio and everything else is turned off and not to have your foot on the brake pedal or you'll blow the bulbs. You have to do this quickly!
The starter will spin like mad but if you are fast, it won't hurt it.
A buddy once converted his 6 volt Volkswagen to 12 volt. He forgot about the horn!
It was funny...that horn was so LOUD it could have been heard for a half mile! He had a lot of fun with it until it finally burned out.
Some owners of older cars have successfully installed 8V batteries.
I remember seeing a lot of old Mercurys with those for some reason.
I wonder if the life of items like light bulbs and radio tubes were shortened?
So I guess it's possible this guy didn't fry that DeSoto as bad as he thought? Shame, that he'd just give up on it and let it go to waste.
You could dig it out of the bushes and find out!
Offer the guy $50 and tell him you will do the extrication. Quite possibly you will be the proud owner of a decrepit Desoto, and a sore back.
better bet, make the offer to his wife.
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@camarorestorer
One of my BIL's had a 75 Camaro, tubbed rear end, built 350, bottle in the trunk.
He made money with it, but I don't know if it ever saw quarter mile track.