Fitted new Optima Red Top battery - correct size this time. It still needed spacers adding to the rods securing the battery frame because it is about 20mm shorter than the old Lucas.
Much faster turning over now, due to doubled cold cranking rate of the new Optima. Fingers crossed for winter.
THIS IS the story of life with a classic car. I drive a 1972 Jaguar XJ6 and write about it here. I'm Martyn Moore, former editor of Classic Cars magazine. This is a two-year story about the roller coaster ride of classic car ownership. The most recent entries come from a classic car rally in 2005, the last journey I made in the car before putting it into storage. Use links on the right for earlier entries.
