What you needed was somebody with a pick up truck.....
P.
Yeah, or someone with a pick up truck who has pulled it to bits!!!
No bloody idea who or what you are talking about.....
But have a small hijack.
And another weekend has come and gone.....
Yesterday I went to help a "new friend" whom I had not met before.
It's kind of a long story, about 25 years ago, I restored a 1963 VW Beetle, and needed a few parts, as you do.
I had also owned 1959 Beetle after that.
Craig's dad had Kritzingers Garage in my home town of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. So that's where I bought my spares.
I was also involved in the whole off-road racing scene at the time and a lot of cars ran various setups as Sandmasters etc, and again I would have used spares from there.
Fast forward to April 2016 and I get a PM on Rods n Sods from a guy who by his own admission, does "Binge-Reading" when he discovers something interesting, and of course he has identified the license plate on my old VW Beetle from 25 years ago.
It quickly becomes clear that we have a lot in common not in the least his love for quirky, different stuff, recycling etc.
So we switch to mobile phones etc.
It turns out that Craig has bought and is waiting for a 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline Aerosedan..... I was very nearly an owner of one 25 years ago when I started working in the Pharma industry.
THIS IS CRAIG'S CAR:retrorides.proboards.com/thread/190311/fleetline-aerosedan-sleeping-beauty-awakeningAnyway, fast forward a few weeks and his car lands and gets delivered, but he has a load of prep to do so that he can prepare some space on his typical UK narrow driveway so that he can work on the car. Last weekend I was sick in bed, but this week at 88% healthy, I was at his place by 09.00 on Saturday after stopping by at mate Martin's place to drop of some heavy duty straps n ratchets I have found him cheaply at the previous bootfair.
Craig has been fighting this Ivy and overgrowth the last few weeks in his spare time after work, and in between looking after his young family.
So when I got there, it was the 10cent tour, then onto just cutting piles of Ivy into ton bags, and moving roots etc out to the street.
So it went on and on......
Craig being a Bantam weight managed to stand on one leg like a Ninja on top of a concrete pillar and clear the Ivy off the roof from the neighbours side, fortunately she was away for the weekend. After the Ivy was removed from where it had grown there was a thick layer of soil and compost to remove next.
Clearing the roof, best done with good supervision...........
Typically South African, we worked till about 4pm and then cleaned and cleared up everything, started a fire......
After eating ourselves silly on a pile of meat that would scare a T-Rex, salads etc followed by coffee, desert sorted out by Mrs CraigRK we went back to the garage and started exchanging and trading tools and toys. Craig and I are of a very similar mindset, except he is clever and has OCD, he had some bits set aside for me, and could not remember where they were, so straight onto the iPad and a spreadsheet....... "Ahhhhh, box no 24" he said and pulled out some nice new bits for me to add to my collection of air tools at home.
I had agreed to trade Craig for a small horizontal compressor for a vertical one he had previously Wombled when he skip dived a pile of treasures on the way back from his school run after dropping the kids off. The little compressor, which is not that little, will be going up inside the replica petrol pump I made a while back, in front of the garage.
Next up a gift........
One of the pavement specials, already tested...... Wet tile cutter.
Note the standard South African patented Toe-Teckters in focus. An honest coincidence.
TESTED......
Then............
The best thing of the day, well, my day at least.
I have been in the market for a new cordless drill for a while.
Enter: 1x charger, 2x Cordless drills, 3x rechargeable batteries.
What a way to end the day. Totally made my week, let alone my day.
Craig also gave me a load of storage boxes, some number plates to trade and some more garage storage solutions. Thanks,mate.
And finally a couple of pics of the car, for the rest, and there are a lot of them, take a look in Craig's build thread.
Love this car.
Eventually left the hospitality of Villa CraigRK at about 8.30pm to return home.
That was Saturday in a flash.
