It's nice to see a car repair in one vid rather than wait 6 months to drag it out. 👍👍👍

45 years in the accident repair industry, you've done a cracking job there , first class.

No way an insurance company paid for this. Hats off to the owner for repairing his baby

Fabulous work, enormously complicated and time consuming. Credit to the repair and body shop people involved.

Great, honest, factual and fast moving.

A brilliant repair job better ran original nice to know there are people of this skill still working GOOD JOB🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Some serious craftsmanship right there. Great video, thanks.

A great job done, the car looks wonderful. Looking forward to the next video.

After spending 35 + years of being in a body shop I can honestly understand all the process and hard work involved in that massive repair/resto, hats off to everyone involved what a brilliant job 👏👏

Now that was better than film 🎥 in my opinion, with the concise voice over and incredible workmanship best one I've watched 🇬🇧💪

Wow! The person who caused the accident actually did the owner a favour. A masterclass in restoration, you should be proud. And it goes to show, even the seemingly best looking classic cars can hide horrors...all those rivets!

Brilliant job. Owner must be delighted. It’s great that there are still people around with the skills to do this kind of restoration. This was always a lovely car although I don’t recall seeing one in red before

Fascinating. I spent 2.5 years of my life restoring a Mk2 3.8 devoting all of my spare time to it so I know all about the problem with remanufactured parts. You have done a wonderful job and it is obviously better than it has ever been.

iv loved these jags for years, wood grain dashboards, smith gauges , great style, the next $million dollar cars

*Really interesting to see a glimpse of the mammoth amount of work that repair needed*

That is a masterfully honest modest run through raising the stakes to a very pleasing result . Bet the owner was thrilled and reinvigorated

A very beautiful job........................... congrats.

That is very impressive. Great skills.

A jig is only as good as the person using it. Nice to see something repaired in the old fashioned way, where all that is neede is a dimensions sheet, a Trammell gauge, common sense and a good pair of eyes. You can see if its straight, as my father used to say. By the way ,a beutifull job. Nice to see people still doing it the old fashioned way. Well done.

A great job on this great Mk 2 Jaguar.Despite non original panels it still looks the part , thanks to the work you ve put in it.

Beautiful workmanship

Great video. As a restorer of Jaguars & few other models i understand fully your comments and issues with rebuilding them.I will share the video with friends as I think you have explained this rebuild very comprehensively but unfortunately most people are shocked at the parts & labour cost on a classic. Cheers Dave

Fantastic repair and spray job!

Whenever I see one of these I immediately think of John Thaw in Morse so a good resto job from a basket case smash up 👌👌👏👏

I'm surprised the owner didn't ask you to look at the rear of the vehicle considering what you found up front and the sills. Great job!. 🙂

what a beautiful car well done to you for the hard work and to the owner for keeping this car on the road and not breaking it for parts

What you've achieved is incredible. A magnificent job becoming a magnificent car. Great respect.

Absolute nightmare !!! Love doing this type off work but it so time comsuming so i aviod it. Your work looks top quality and Novol is the way to go i,ve been painring for 47 years and their products are top notch . 👍👍

Mk 2 Jags...love them

To be fair, (And I will say right off the bat, you have made a lovely job of the repair) I think the original Jaguars built in Browns lane have a lot of lead filler in them and the genuine pressed panels were not very good to start with. If you look at some of the period "Documentaries" from the 50s, there is plenty of evidence of the amount of lead sticks used in the production of these cars. They certainly were no "Mulliner Park Ward" of their day, that's for sure! Thanks for posting, very interesting!

That looks like a wonderful repair, well done to all concerned. 11/10. 👋👍

Great credit to you and your team for the repairs / restore of this important piece of motoring history.

So good to see a real trades man at work ,not many of you guys left .

Great video! Nice to hear your voice rather than American rock 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Absolutely beautiful. One of my favourite cars of all time dating back to my youth. OK, bit of snagging, but better than before the accident with both old and new repairs now done properly. Hate to think what it all cost though!!

That clearcoat is amazing!

Back in the day I've repaired several MkII's with front end damage. A lot of which we stretched and hammered out and lead loaded. This type of repair took much longer but labour was cheap Back then.

Outstanding work there!!

'Little issues' shouldn't even be an issue, as it's better than when he bought it. You've done an ace job. nz.

The only positive that came out of that accident was that the customer now has a much better MK2 considering all the body/Chassis rectification work you did to previous poor workmanship, Unfortunately there are a lot of tarted up MK2's still out there! Subbed and liked!

Top job, i've rebuilt a couple of MK2's over the years and have replaced the front nose, wheel arch and repaired the rear of wings rather than replace it, mainly for cost but also because of fitment issues. It looks cracking, well done! If you are having trouble with the door seals then Toolstation sell a really good super glue that i've used on mine, most glues don't work because the newer rubbers are EPDM which most glues won't stick to. The Toolstation stuff works great.

.....what a job! Clever guys!!

My parents had a Mark 4. Oh, I would love to drive that car again for an afternoon. My father was a meticulous man. He traded the Jag for a new Mazda (I think) when it started to require more maintenance then he cared to deal with. I’ll bet he sold it to his mechanic! Never thought of that before! That would have been just like him. The guy only worked on foreign stuff and knew everything about the car since he had worked on it since it came off the boat. Oil every 3000 miles, all locks lubed on schedule etc.. I couldn’t have kept it up at the time, but I sure was crest fallen when I found out it was gone.

Beautiful automobile.

Great workmanship - well done

Fabulous job guys! I know how much work goes into something like that as I had BMW hit head on many years ago and was in similar state. Weeks of work by a dedicated team got her back to wonderful in about three months. Look forward to other vids! Keep up the great work and have subbed.

An excellent video guys. Thank you for sharing.

Amazing job, well done. This was a well insured car i guess.

Yes I did enjoy the video very much, and (funnily enough) I found that the old stills, combined with your excellent voice over was actually quite an effective way of keeping the obvious progress interesting. ( I don’t think you mentioned the actual doors in this rendition but I’ll presume you made good and treated them to the same paint process as the rest of the car?) -So was it just the roof that you blended?

Nice job. Looks great! Cool car.

Fantastic job, thank you for the video,

What a lovely job - surprised (and pleased) this wasn't written off as uneconomic. I don't think the panels would have been that accurate when new - as you probably know, Jaguars of this era were assembled using lots of hammers and lead loading.... 🙂

Nice job Kieth

I would love to be able to do work like that, must be very rewarding.

Great meticulous work

Great video guys! Spot on!

Well done saved another Jag.

Well , here we go someone who knows how to do a real job . !

Thank you for being you what a grand job. I just hope and pray in the future young people will enjoy these cars because they don’t seem to be. At this moment. I have a destroyed front wheel drive fuel injected two stroke goliath that lost its life to a tree unfortunately, something that will not be put back in a museum. Regards Alan from down under. I also have a garage queen.

Fantastic work guy’s 👍 and a new subscriber to boot.

Fantastic work👍🏻

I enjoyed the video, well done😎

Lots of good common sense points made there from folk who obviously know to the job properly without being silly.

That looks like ten grands worth of work to me!

Looking at how well that Jaguar stood up to the impact, I find myself wondering how well the modern car stood up to being T boned after its owner made a bad error of judgement. Top work bring that car back from the crumpled mess it was.

Fantastic job ❤

Great job.

Hi There, New sub, great channel. look forward to seeing the jag back at yours in the winter. GN

Nicely done 🎉

amazing work sir

Great video just subscribed and really enjoyed it your work look terrific

Nice work guys

Good job. really hard job with after market stuff but well done

Wow amazing 👍👍

I trust you used lead and not filler on the joints with the sills and above the grille? Because of the flexing of the body, filler will always crack. I speak with over 40 years of experience on classic Jags.

8:13 I'm not sure if its the angle or if somethings off with it, as this might be a replacement too, but the front bumper overriders might need a little bit of adjustment, like the distance between the body overriders, the humps and the body just seems a little off on the left, what would be the right side might be nothing and I might be wrong, but it just seems a touch off

I bet that '65 Impala is yours.

Did you do a brake upgrade?

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What a nightmare. I look at the haphazard spacing of the spot weld holes and it's obvious that Jaguar workers drank HEAVILY on the job.

A perfect job, although it must have cost a fortune in parts and labour.

3.8 I presume ….nice job .

If I was the customer, I would not have wanted the registration plate displayed on the video.

Relacement panels are available for this??!!

Was this an insurance job? Classic car insurance?

It annoys me that idiot in soulless modern Sh*tboxes will cause this level of damage to such a beautiful car, what a lovely repair I imagine he will be more careful where and when he drives it now tho.

Could you say approximately what a repair like this would cost? Great job🏆🏆

Sad to think that if the EU/VOSA get their way none of this would be allowed back on the roads.

I hope the owner had an insurance policy that paid him a good chunk of the cost of this. In ther car hobby they don't want to hear " total write-off, do they ?

Very surprised it was not an economic write off

Beautiful workmanship, a pleasure to watch.

This would cost 120.000 Euro and more (today the bodyshops take 375 Euros an hour wage!) this car is totalled! Who invests more money in a car than its market vaue?

Scrap it plenty about

There brakes were not that great very skittish at speed

Factory panel gaps! Lol!

I know nothing about your field of expertise but I do think that any company that supplies second / third rate body panels (corrosion underneath prep .... ) should be named and shamed as a warning to others . People in this country deserve soooo much better and always seem to be paying top dollar for second / third rate products . It's not so much the fact they do it but the fact that they are allowed to get away with doing it ....