hi guys,

it is indeed the post mark 2, pre XJ series saloon. many people think that jaguar produced it as a test bed for the xj series that took the world by storm a couple of years later.

it's got 4.2 litres of beautiful, shiny, silent, purring straight six under the bonnet. this car is 35 years old has been used and abused for much of that except the last year or two when it was left standing outside, and yet everything still works as well as the day it left the factory.

i love it, you get the benefit of an old car, wonderfully overengineered/crafted parts, fantastic dashboard with instruments to die for, but with the benefit of modern mechanicals.

my one is very tatty but is responding well to TLC. the only real problem i have is that it is drinking petrol at a rate that i can't live with. i mean by the bucketful. so far i haven't been able to find a leak, but there is a smell of petrol when i drive it so i suspect one somewhere. i seriously hope i find it!!!

i haven't tuned the carbs yet, but don't think that this will completely solve the problem, but you can only hope.

anyway, i'll check with jaguar on the brake fluid type.

many thanks

justin.

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