2016-01-23 22:40:09 | John Elmgreen writes:

Sold new in Sydney, Australia. Bought in 1966 by John Nancarrow of Palm Beach in Sydney. Used until 1979, then stored. Held by his widow after his death until sold to a buyer in London in 2015. Challenging restoration project.

2018-06-26 19:15:27 | Terry Walker writes:

John many thanks for your comments. Challenging is not the word for this project but it is do able.

Once I have figured out how to up load pictures I will. I have disassemble the car to chassis and body I had the body and chassis dipped to remove all the old paint and rust. I then cleaned out the chassis box section of all the muck which was left. The original plan was to re send it back to the dippers to have a light blast and re dipped then zinc sprayed. Due my budget which keep getting extended I wire brush my self . The main issue I had was the roof it was extremely badly pitted in fact in some places rust had eaten through the roof. I do not use filler in my restorations so I set about the lead loading of the roof this took me a good 9 months due the clod weather in the UK and the location of my workshop.



I then body filed the whole of the roof and used a high build primer to illuminate the very small indentations left when the lead cooled down. I have lead loaded smaller areas before but not such a large area it seems to have been a success, During this time doing the roof the rest of the car had not been zinc coated so I cleaned up the chassis and did the zinc coating needing to grind off the zinc when I get around to the welding. The body I just got with the roof some red rust came onto the body during this time, once I got the roof to where it was nearly done I had the rest of the body light blast and zinc coated I will again have to grind off the zinc prior to any welding.


Due to the complex restoration I have farmed out the engine re build and the back axel and the gear box all have been done now. Much to my surprise the chassis had very little rust and was very sound. I think the roof problem was no air got to it and the salt air laid on the roof under the tarp. The engine was in a very state and was just about salvageable

It seems you know the car quite well on the off side a square hole had been cut in I think this was for some kind home made air con do you know?

Also it seems the same wing had the bottom half replaced do you anything about that.

Many thanks for your in put

Terry

London (UK)

2019-01-20 21:31:09 | Terry Walker writes:

I have been collecting and restoring classic english cars for 50 years as a hobby My aim was to own a Jaguar and I go this XK150 in April 2015. It needs a total restoration everything needs doing.

I have stripped the car down the engine is now re built as the gear box and back axel.

The body has suffered a lot of corrosion and pitting. I had the car dipped to remove the paint and have hand wire brushed the body and zinc painted it to prevent anymore rust. The roof was very badly pitted which I have now totally lead loaded and primed. Work on going. Quite a bit of welding has to be done on the body. The chassis was in great nick just one area of rust which has been cut out and will be replaced once the weather warms up.

Some one did say they knew of the car in Australia please contact me thanks