2025-10-30 19:03:31 | pauls writes:

Car on ebay 10/25
www.ebay.com/itm/136680780390
Buy it now price $5,000 for 30 days, seller quanrev, 110k miles

Seller's description:
This is a 1993 facelift Jaguar XJS convertible. The last year for the chrome bumpers and inner rear disks.
I recently had someone run a red light and turn in front of me causing damage to the fender, headlight bucket and bumper.
The estimate from my jag shop, Jag Mac Jaguar in Dallas, a very high quality shop, to fix it is $2500 with the body shop they recommend and I can supply you with the estimate if you want to use my shop and the parts are readily available apparently with me now having received two quotes from two separate sources.
Although it looks bad, it's really superficial as it still runs and drives straight as an arrow as is the frame the fender bolts onto as well.
I could fix it, and since it'd be going in for repair, I even got another quote for $1500 to have paint chips repaired and the entire car clear coated, but I'm just ready to get out of it. I'm just getting older and cars really just don't matter as much to me anymore.
As I say, it had been extremely reliable ever since I replaces the engine, transmission and wiring harness and it still is.
Some of the pics show before the accident and before some of the interior redone.
From what I could research, the 305 engine came out of a 1989 Chevrolet Impala (which was really no more than a Caprice with a trim package at that point) and was rebuilt by a quality machine shop bored out to .060 over which makes it around 313 cubic inches apparently, and it has a 700R4 transmission with about 14,000 miles on it since it's last rebuilt, and is the last year of the hydraulic kick down.
Cam shaft is a mild, slightly aggressive RV cam, and has an appropriately sized Holly 4 barrel.
Plus this being a previous 6 cylinder, the weight of of the engines were about the same meaning no need to change the front springs and the rear end ratio is better suited to the V8 being a 3.54, with the bonus of this arguably now qualifying as a front mid-engined car at this point as the front two cylinders now line up with the front axle with the engine sitting low and back in the engine bay.
Wiring harness is a quality harness, too, with a trunk mounted fuse panel. Also, included with the Kwik Wire aftermarket harness is a complete Jaguar factory wiring harness book full of pullout schematics as there are still a number of circuits yet to be hooked up, but all the major ones needed to drive such as lights, turn signals, horn, wipers, engine temperature and oil pressure and, of course, keyed ignition switch are done.
I've done the hard part, i.e. the conversion to a better drive train, the rest I leave to you