Not much progress today, but at least no rust where it could have been expected. So it is a good day.
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You are doing so much hard work, I really think you will regret not pulling out the front and rear glass.
The glass will come off. Probably 2 weeks from now. Today I found space to store it allâŠ
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The r/h sill is very nice all the way. What a relief.
Removing paint is a right royal pain, but doing upside down is just self-punishment.
I have already spent 150 hours on the body work⊠canât wait to have the have to whole thing towed away to the paint shopâŠ
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Ahhh ⊠You want to do away with the âfinsâ behind the filler caps? Are they lost or do you just want to smoothen the body?
In fact theyâre quite rare as not all models were equipped with them and I find them extremely attractive.
Keep on your labor of love - it all looks like youâre on a good way now
Jochen
75 XJ6L 4.2 auto (UK spec)
I like the elegance of the âfinsâ, but mine are marked âUnleaded fuel onlyâ, which makes them undesirable to me. So off they go⊠
Hi,
My theory is that the fins first appeared because of the need for those âunleaded fuel onlyâ labels and thus almost no Daimlers had them.
Get a pair of Euro fins, they are smooth and chromed. 
Cheers!
Mine are marked Essence San Plume.
Even merde de chien sounds good in French. For dessert!
You probably mean âEssence sans plombâ 
Or maybe his is from Quebec! 
Cheers!
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Only Norton motorbikes are to be filled up with âessence avec plumesâ to reduce vibrations.
Pekka, why wouldnât Daimlers have the fins then?
Werenât they exported to the US as well as Jaguars?
For some time I even thought the fins were a Daimler thing ⊠More bling, more bucks:-)
Good luck
Jochen
75 XJ6L 4.2 auto (UK spec)
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Hi,
Nope, no âbrand valueâ. Unlike places like UK, NL, DK, SE with royal families, and places like Cologne and Bavaria.
Jaguar came up later with the branding âJaguar Vanden Plasâ that was like a Daimler for ROW but sold only in North America. (S3, XJ40, X300).
Later âSuper Eightâ which was again a Daimler variant of the XJR.
Cheers!
Sorry if this is digressing âŠ
Pekka, I think it was much later than the advent of our SII cars that (then) Daimler-Benz and British Leyland made an agreement over the use of âDaimlerâ as a trademark for BL cars and from then on BL refrained from using âDaimlerâ on the North American market. Prior to that quite a number of Daimlers were sold in the US.
Actually, I just checked out that the parts catalogue specifies the fins for all SII XJ6 and Daimler Sovereign - either with the tag âfor unleaded fuelâ (but doesnât specify VIN or markets for this equipment!) or - without the tag - for Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands and Italy. Thatâs why my UK car doesnât have it:-(
Another mystery solved
Jochen
75 XJ6L 4.2 auto (UK spec)
Can anyone post photos of these, please? Iâve never heard of them.
Thanks Eric, that was quick. I was totally unaware of the existance of these, never seen a photo, nor heard them mentioned. Learn something every day.
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Same here donât like them.
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Ditto. I presume we never got them here ( NZ) because we still had leaded fuel at that time.