Welcome new Cabriolet member – Mark Spillane

Started 14th November 2019 at 21:16 · Laurence Jones

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Welcome Mark @rokgod

Thank you for joining as a Cabriolet Member of the XJS Soft Tops Club, I hope you find your membership interesting – feel free to participate in any past or future discussion topics.

You have two Membership Photo Albums, these can be found via the Main Menu ==> My Account ==> My Photos. It would be great if you could add a photo or two of your Cabriolet for all members to see.

Please reply to this topic and tell us how you discovered our Club and a little about your own XJ-SC Cabriolet and your general enthusiasm and interest the XJS Soft Top models.

Laurence

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- 17th December 2019 at 10:24 #15500
  
  Mark Spillane
  Participant
  
  Picked up my car today finally! Drove it to the mechanics for an initial once over.
  
  I’m already loving it even though it needs a looooot of work.
  
  Interesting car.
  
  Vin says it’s a XJS HE Couoe – built in 1982, delivered in 1983 in Glasgow, and it has a soft top. I assume this car is a very early factory Cabriolet.
  
  It has the roof cross member and the rear windows don’t move. It has rear seats.
  
  Any thoughts ? How early did they build these?
  
  Going to fully restore the car – here we go!
- 17th December 2019 at 17:08 #15506
  
  Laurence Jones
  Keymaster
  
  Hi Mark @rokgod
  
  Whilst it’s true that all the Jaguar built Cabriolet’s started life on the factory floor as Coupes they were all registered as Cabriolets – we have the range of VIN Numbers for these.
  
  A number of companies converted Coupes themselves into early Convertible and some as Cabriolets (using Jaguar parts).
  
  I’d be interested to see some photos of your car, and see what we can find out for you about its history.
  
  Cheers
  
  Laurence
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