11 months later......
Oh, my. As George Takei might say, it's been nearly a year since I updated this thread, which means it's now been somewhat over a year since I bought the old XJS. Predictably, the project has been ambling along gently, with work occurring in fits & starts. The car is now completely stripped to a bare shell - no wiring, no ancillaries, absoluetely zip. All the glass, doors, removable panels are all off.... and now the state of the shell can be seen in all its horror.... and yes, it's pretty rusty. The 2 pics show the chassis rails under the nearside rear arch - this section of chassis will be taking the full brunt of any acceleration and hard cornering, so it needs to be rock solid. Not mostly made of iron oxide, as it is just now...