Young George and dads escort van ..and a few others

I forgot to add , I did have one small interruption
From a nice Irish chap with a ridiculous haircut telling me he could do me a good price on my gutters and possibly a driveway??
Oh and “isn’t yer van nice me ol mate?”
Needless to say it’s locked away safely now!

Optical illusion there polished with silver centres!

Fiesta looks awesome with those wheels!...BMX bike should be a fun project....

JP

March 2015.........


How time has flown.

Especially if they are the same trousers














I’ll get my coat

So this morning I decided to get the van out of hibernation ready to move down to my pals workshop ready for the engine change very soon
Now this would seem any easy five minutes work??
Factor in a 51 year old man still enjoying the Xmas food and beer
With a tight garage to manoeuvre the now dead batteryed van out of
As young George is away for a few days I had to squeeze my Xmas belly along the wall and push the van out onto the driveway
No easy task when your unfit and full of Turkey and stuffing!
The quick charger would Not do its job and I reckon at least two glow plugs are down
Managed to get it down the driveway and jump started it off one of the fiestas
Then I thought to myself why did I not just switch over a battery off one of the other cars???
Obviously not thinking properly due to excess alcohol over the holidays
Finally got it running and will be running it down over the next few days to begin the transplant

See - That just confirms my OCD CSS status (cant stop still) no matter how well you stock the beer fridge - load the gin bar and lay the endless supply of delicious food on - 2 days in and I'm bored rigid and heading back to the workshop

So we’ve come to a bit of a crossroads with the van
We have a lot going on here with four other cars
And the van has sat in the garage , the engine transplant has been on hold due to both my work commitments and George’s work and college commitments
Undecided whether to sell or leave it for a while longer
I know full well I personally would regret selling it so much work has gone into it so far
And George’s knowledge has grown phenomenally since we started this build
We now have to make a joint decision sell or get on with engine swap , plenty to ponder over the next month or so

Do what feels right, but don't make a decision straight away. I don't need to say it, but these winter months can make you feel this way about things, but obviously I don't know what else you've been dealing with. If you've got the engine, maybe do the swap and see how it goes (no pun intended).
Its reminded me of when I sold my mini. Id had a spate of doing one repair after another over a couple of months, I simply got the hump with it and sold it. Big mistake.