Hello there!


You are looking at, and hopefully bidding on my 1991 Jaguar XJ-S 3.6 automatic, which was once a shining example of a true classic British luxury grand tourer. It still turns heads today, and I am often held up by people wanting to talk to me about the car when I am filling her up with petrol (also, filling up with petrol is a regular occurrence with one of these grand old ladies).

Sadly, the years have not been particularly kind to this old girl and she needs some tender loving care in order to maintain roadworthiness, the main issues being rust (Jaguar seemed to have a habit of building great cars and forgetting to rustproof them) and an oil leak from the differential. I have been using this car on a daily basis (50 mile round trip) and will continue to do so until I have another means of transport (Please feel free to let me know if you are selling something with mot and tax). So, at the time of listing,  she starts, runs and drives, although this may change over the duration of the auction. I will of course keep any interested parties informed and allow bid retraction if something does go wrong (although like I said I've used it daily for ages so I don't see why it should).

In my opinion this car requires more time and money spent restoring to concours condition than could ever be recouped, it's a romantic notion that it will be bought and fully restored though!

Much more likely is that it will be bought by someone who will get it through an MOT, sort the diff out and use it daily like I have, or maybe strip it for parts, or even banger race it (sacrilege I know, but even that would be a more fitting end than cubed up and exported as scrap metal. For this reason, my starting price is what it will weigh in at at my local scrappy, if anyone has any use for it, put a bid in, if it's the winning bid, the car is yours.

Will I break the car? Of course I will, if there is sufficient interest and the car fails to sell...
Will I take cash to finish the auction early? That is what the buy it now button is for :-)
Will I take less than the starting bid? No, I'll get that at a scrappy. Sorry but I can't afford to give it away (even to an enthusiast)
Will it get home? Probably, I've been using it daily, doing 300 miles a week, with only a broken alternator in 5 months. But, I drive carefully (i'm a professional driver and need my license). If you rag it hard enough you may manage to break it.

Anyhoo, I digress. ADHD is a wonderful thing, I don't suffer from it, I embrace it.

The Jag isn't as bad as I'm making it sound, I just want to be brutally honest so I don't waste your time, especially if you're travelling miles to get it (which you probably will be - I live at the bottom of Cornwall). I don't want to waste your time, and would really like for you to not waste mine. Bid what you want to bid, come and look at it if you want (before auction end). Pay what you bid, it's not an invitation to haggle - I'll make second chance offers if you try.

The Jag also has some good points...

SERVICE HISTORY
The engine is smooth and seems sweet as a nut, same with the gearbox. No oil or water usage or loss.
The interior is pretty good (centre console cracked - piping split on driver's seat - otherwise very good)
The fuel consumption surprised me - I expected ruinous but got cack (22-25 mpg on my commute)
Electrics all work (except aerial and clock - just a fuse?)
Cd player included but not fitted (oh it's in there and working, but not actually held in)
Tyres are all good except spare which is worn down an edge - haven't bothered to measure but pretty sure its legal
Most of the rust hasn't actually got in too deeply and could be sorted out cheaply.
Surprisingly good underneath
Alarm and immobilizer fitted (clifford)
An honest car listed by an honest ebayer... I'll give you the holes for free, I won't charge you extra for the filler. Probably better than a lot of examples on here (I can't go round and view them all to qualify that statement but having bought cars of ebay before I've seen some right sheds described as mint)
It's a jag, it's red, JUST LOOK AT IT... how could you not?

The bad points
Bonnet is rotten and definitely wants replacing
Chrome bumpers look rough
Surface rust and small bubbles to sills, inner wings, front wings, bottoms of buttresses and others
Hole in scuttle panel and under bonnet where bonnet shuts
Hole in front valance
Small hole in floor by jacking point (5p piece size)
Diff leaky
A noise coming from somewhere coming out of bends (probably the diff - possibly a bearing)
Slight pull to the right under HARD braking

So anyway, there you have it... If you've any questions email me using the "ask seller a question" button and I'll reply about 2am after I get the message. If you want to buy it and use it just remember

ITS NOT ROUGH, IT'S "RAT LOOK"