I've been quite busy with work, which did stop a month ago, and then got busy again. That, and family birthdays (3 I think over the last 5 weeks?) really made things busy. Maybe I'll take on a lodger and a less stressful job
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I do hear you H0tWire on the days and doing tasks that are non-work related. I'll not say I'm the best planned or driven but I do try to get things done. Mapping things out on a list is something I've done for over a year, which has helped, but it just shows what needs to be done outside of work. The list still isn't done!
Was feeling quite positive on the weekend, had some nice weather, so was out in the garden messing about with body filler and Crossfire parts naturally...
Small part of me wishes I'd just left it all standard but oh well too late to turn back now
normal service has been resumed with the rain today unfortunately..
Fair play for digging deep, and trying something outside of your comfort zone! Yes, it may not be quite what you want on the first pass, but you'll get there!
I am guilty for sticking with what I know most of the time. I'll procrastinate in trying new things. However, when I do, it's not always smooth, but there is a sense of feeling of learning more and not going with what in our minds is an ideal project (IMHO, they don't exist). That and spending time with friends (maybe too much at times) probably does not help. But more on that later.
It will be good to see the car one of the days. Are you doing RRW or MotoFest at all?
And this evening back with the DLOC as we had a talk from the former curator of the JDHT talking through the establishment of the collection up to the point it moved to Gaydon really. That was quite interesting. I am becoming an old man.
I had a chat with a man of mine who helps run the JDHT about the chap who did that talk. That was an insightful conversation.
Anyway, what has gone on over the last week?
Well, the M3 was dusted off. However, I had an issue, I fixed typically that morning, despite having it for weeks.
The cause, a duff ABS sensor, after some digging with diagnostics equipment.
However, this meant that I no longer had a sea of lights on the dashboard to go and visit a mate on his birthday. A birthday I almost forgot to go to, since the day crept up on me ASAP!
We would start out at Caffeine and Machine, and then progress on to Curborough.
An RR car or two will be familiar in that shot
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We'd then spend the time at Curborough all to ourselves. It was a little surreal to have that, but good to know for the future. It was a fun day, with no casualties to us or the cars. Oh, and the rain held too!
What cars were there I hear you ask?
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goosegog's Lenham
-Jake's Mini
-A Renault Kangoo, running 172 running gear. This arguably won the most fun car. The amount of lean was comical!
-A Mk5 Golf GTi on air ride, and a "Stage 1.5" tune on the engine. It was arguably the 2nd quickest car in a straight line that day
-An R56 Mini Cooper S in very good condition
-A Reliant Scimitar SS§, sporting a Nissan CA18 swap, and some serious tuning. It was quick. Really quick!
-My M3
Oh, those lights I turned off earlier? I turned the DSC one back on again! More on that in the M3 thread some time.
That left the weekend, where I'd chat to a mate about what he had bought, whom a few will know here. I didn't just one car, but two! A restored Mk2 Golf GTi G60, with fresh components throughout, and a Toyota Century G50. Both rare cars in their own right. Both were a blast. The G60 I'm familiar with from before to some extent, but the Century is something else. What a car to be in, and be driven in! I could happily sit in the back of that car! It was a shame to get out of it truth be told!
Oh, and the other thing? Weeks ago, I bought a B5.5 Passat. There's nothng quite like choking on your own advice to not buy more projects, and here I am laughing in that. We never learn do we?
It's mad to think this example is 19 years old, and the B5 Passat will be 30 years old in 3 years time. When did we get old? My S1 RS Turbo was 30 years old almost 10 years ago when I bought that! Anyway, it obviously needs work, and like any Passat, it kept me busy, in the form of servicing it, and fitting in a new door lock.
It's got a way to go, but it will get there. Polishing a jet black car will be fun, and an estate at that. But that will come another time.
Wow, that's quite a bit to do over the space of a week I suppose.
normal service has been resumed with the rain today unfortunately..
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