2010-07-14 21:11:07 | pauls writes:

Ebay item 7/14/10
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Current bid $7,000 reserve not met, no bids yet 4 days left in auction. Buy it now price $28,000.

Sellers description:
This car was a 4 door sedan with right hand drive, 3.8 liter engine, and automatic transmission.

I purchased it in 1982 from California.(I do have the bill of sale)

It had been converted to a 2 door convertible( with a mechanically opperated top), by welding the rear doors closed and chopping the top.

I purchased a donor car in order to restore the car to a 4 door. So I cut the doors open and used the rear doors from the donor. As you can see in the pics there is a small spot of surface rust on the bottom front corner of the left front door.

I wanted a fully hydrolic top, which when fully folded would stow behind the back seats, instead of laying on top of the rear deck like a VW Bug. In order to maintain the lines of the car, I shortened the trunklid, opened the rear cowl, and removed the 2 gas tanks from their factory location(left and right rear fenders).

I installed a gas tank under a false floor in the trunk. Both filler lids exist, but only the right one is functional.

I then removed the Jag engine and transmission and installed a completly rebuilt 350 small block Chevy and 350 tranny.

There is currently under 100 miles on the engine and tranny. The car has only been driven to a couple of car shows.

The entire interior has been redone;

All the seats have been redone in leather hides( saddle color) with contrasting piping.

As well as new door panels, carpet, trunk interior, and engine compartement liner.

I had to engineeer and fabricate the convertible top frame from scratch. Additionally, I have fabricated and installed a new Stay Fast cloth top with German herringbone liner.

Finally most of the wood is very good, a few sections are just so so.

This is a perfect one of a kind, personal ride.

2010-07-31 08:02:44 | pauls writes:

Car returns to ebay 7/31/10
cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Jaguar-UNIQUE-Literally-One-Kind-Read-Me-/270615502506
Opening bid $1,000 reserve not met, no bids yet 6 days left in auction.

Previous auction received no bids.

2010-08-08 06:16:20 | pauls writes:

Car returns to ebay 8/8/10
cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Jaguar-UNIQUE-Literally-One-Kind-Read-Me-/270618697065
Opening bid $1,000 reserve not met, no bids yet 5 days left in auction. Buy it now price $28,000.

Previous auction ended at $1,765 reserve not met after 5 bids.

2014-01-10 10:16:35 | pauls writes:

Some shallow research on a small group of MkX convertible conversions indicate there were perhaps 10 built by a fellow named Craig Hinton. No way to know if this is one but likely.