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Jun 12, 2020 21:46:49 GMT
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Ok - so there are many stories of road trips with your Classics / Retros but what lengths did you go to get the car built / restored - aside from the workshop / garage activity - what about the trips to fetch / carry / source / find the parts / specialist services that you need in order to get the car back on the road - Now I'm not talking about your trip to the motor super discount store for a tin of exhaust paste and two rancid smelling air fresheners - but I know of some people that travelled the length of the country to find / collect that obscure part - call on a mate on the way back to do a deal on some other bits - go and see some one else who might just be able to help you with some obsolete trimming fabric - and before you know it you have been driving 15 hours - covered 600 miles & filled up with fuel twice (or is that just me) - For obvious reasons I tend to combine my trips to make them cost effective for both my time / fuel alongside that of my clients - car club matters etc - So I'll kick off with one I did yesterday Left home at 06:00 hours with a P38 4 litre V8 - towing the car trailer with a dismantled 1954 Jowett Jupiter I reside in Hampshire (just) - destination: Preston 6 Hours later and I'm there & unloaded This is a company called 'Ribble Technology' who will strip all the paint from the alloy body panels & de-rust the steel chassis / bulkhead - the steel they will then prime prior to me collecting everything about 2 weeks time Its always interesting to see what else they are currently on with - Triumph TR3 bodyshell Mk1 Escort just being washed off after being removed from the dipping tank Land Rover rear tub ready for collection I'm never adverse to helping anyone if I can - so this bonnet / boot floor / front panel belongs to moglite - he dropped them with me & I brought them with the rest of the panels for processing Next - Preston to Keighley with a empty trailer which was then loaded with this 1947 Jowett Bradford van which is coming back with me for a new fabric roof to be fitted Stored since 1952 - 22,000 miles from new A comfortable & powerful tow vehicle is essential on these type of trips and the P38 is very well suited for the job has already stated I don't mind helping others where I can - This very rare Mazda RX2 front wing was kindly dropped off by the vendor at the address in Keighley that I collected the van from but I'm just another link in the chain bringing it down country for @johnnybravo who will eventually collect from me - its now 15:00 hours and the next stop is Barnsley To drop some donated parts off to the club chairman of the Jowett Car Club - these will go into the clubs spares scheme for members - other parts are for pattern to have new items manufactured Parts also included a donated engine And a pair of retrimmed seats (done by my other half) for one the chairman's own restorations Its now 17:30 - better get back on that Motorway - By the time I arrived home and reversed the trailer down the lane / parked up it was just 21:00 - so 15 hours - 492 miles - £145 of fuel - I always go well prepared - plenty to eat / drink en-route - I hate driving hungry - don't have the radio / stereo on either I'd rather concentrate on the driving So where have you been - what did you collect - was it a fruitful trip or a complete disaster and pics will make your post a lot more interesting to read
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Jun 12, 2020 22:27:54 GMT
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Thanks Chris 👍🏻 Much appreciated
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moglite
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Jun 12, 2020 22:47:30 GMT
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Most appreciated Chris. Is it just me, or does somebody need to draw a mouth on the rear doors of that van, it has perfect eyes and eyebrows already. My best/worst road trip for gathering parts was Winchester <-> Germany in 24 hours non-stop. My 3.9 Range Rover and trailer to collect Unimog axles and wheels. My head gasket blew not far into France. so just poured in more water than fuel, and that is saying something for a Rangie towing as Chris knows. So as soon as we got home, time to start building - sleep is for wimps. Mock up the axles with an old Discovery chassis. Yep - that is going to work - must be time for sleep now.
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1967 Morris Oxford Traveller 1979 Toyota LandCruiser BJ40 1993 Daimler Double Six 2007 Volvo XC70 2.4D
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I once took a 14 mile drive ,before a 50mile train trip, before finishing the day off with a 5600 mile flight. I then hired a car and drove 3000 miles in just under two weeks . Packed everything I had managed to get into a small “move cube”, basically a wooden box 8 foot high that is built onto a euro pallet and fits into a standard shipping container.Got it shipped home. . Then flew 5585 miles to Schipol where it should have been a quick flight, train trip and drive home. That didn’t go to plan as I found some very rare indicator lights for my Rx2 whilst stopped over in Holland. So I walked out the airport, hired a car, drove 100 miles round trip to get lights. Back at the airport argued the toss about missing my connecting flight. Got a later flight to Heathrow, train trip and a drive back home arriving in the afternoon instead of the morning.
So just over 15 000 miles in ten days yielded me four doors,windscreen surrounds,a bit of trim,a badge and three new indicator lenses for my Rx2 . Was an epic road trip though 🤣🤣🤣
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My best one so far was setting off from home in North Yorkshire at 5:00 am just as a storm was blowing in and driving through all the floods to get to the motor way and sitting on that for 5 hours up to Aberdeen to go and look at a p38 for a friend. It was a bit rougher than we expected so we came to a deal and brought it back anyway. So did the return 350 mile trip in a slightly suspect car because we wernt able to tax it due to the v5 slip been already used to tax it before, we were ready to hand the documents back and walk away aside from the fact the guy had already taken the money and run. The oil was very low and the fuel gauge didnt even twitch when we started it. It took 100L at the nearest fuel station and then had to be filled again in ingleton just before we got home. We found out later it had a serious petrol leak on the main feed line above the tank so had been pooring fuel down the motorway all the way home. 700miles in 16hours through some of the serious floods that we had early this year and i did it all in my little MK1 MR2.
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When doing the welding on my Cortina about 6 years ago I realised the rear chassis rails and spring hangers were rotten and covered in tin and black curse word. A guy on the Internet had a good boot floor with all the required parts. I live in West Wales and he was in Essex. I borrowed my brother’s LDV Maxus van, left at 6am, arrived in Essex lunchtime, spoke to the guy for 10 minutes, loaded the van, quick McDonald’s and drove home arriving at 7 pm.
I was £250 lighter for the panels and £110 lighter for the fuel, but a load lighter on my mind as the same panels from Expressed Steel Panels would have been thousands.
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stealthstylz
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Jun 13, 2020 10:20:40 GMT
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I've always tried to make a night of it. Funniest one was probably when I was picking some wheels up from somewhere in East London. Was about 10pm and I was bloody starving, in my work clothes, dirty hands etc. Spotted a Pie & Mash place, went in and it was some hipster place. Sat down and ordered a pie and when it came out it was (to my eyes) mini pork pie size with that stupid thing they do with the mash and gravy where they zigzag a curse word stain of it across the plate. I did the obligatory WTF, got up, walked into the kitchen, put a big dollop of mash and a ladle of gravy on and walked back out to the other customers clapping lol.
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Jun 13, 2020 10:47:56 GMT
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Took my rrc from Norfolk to South Wales a while ago because I’d bought a set of mk2 cortina struts with the roller bearing tops for £25, from the devils auction site Left home at 5.30ish, arrived in Wales an hour before I thought I would, spoke to the guy who was a diamond, and gave me an engine/gearbox combo along with a load of other bits really cheap, as if the struts weren’t cheap enough already! Filled the back of the range, and took the scenic way home, just under 500 miles, knackered but very happy Then sold the gearbox for £250 to a classic saloon car racer who only wanted the case, apparently something to do with the regs of the class he was racing in So all in all, a very successful day out!
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bstardchild
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Jun 13, 2020 12:21:39 GMT
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I was going to link to it but decided a copy paste in here would probably work better forum.retro-rides.org/thread/125629/1979-monza-rally-austin-mchale?page=15A good friend Roddy gave me the option to reunite some parts he had for my rally car project - but he was specific - no cherry picking take it all or don't bother - the all was basically 3 engines one almost complete car and a rather large number of parts for another car - down side -I live in Norfolk and Roddy lives in Scotland anyway reprint of the account here. Finally got the pictures sorted from the Norfolk to scotland road trip/collection of Monza parts/car Slightly out of order timeline wise but I did promise pics in a brief thread in chit chat Norfolk to Scotland and back in a weekend.... So on a Saturday a couple of months back I enlisted the help of a mate with a van that had a towbar, hooked up the empty trailer and filled up the van And set off on the drive up to Scotland. Pace was sedate and we kept of the motorways so scenery was very nice at times – with roads like this ahead who needs motorways (and no we didn’t have a massive queue of cars behind us either) Getting close to Scotland we caught up a group of small eastern block two strokes from Germany being supported by a Trabant - I think they were going on to Norway! I’m quite partial to the smell of two strokes so I snapped a few pictures but that’s a heck of a road trip Forth bridge - we were close to our destination Spent the evening loading up trailer and van with a few beers and a fair bit of conversation as well as a Chinese takeaway Scottish style (Special Fried rice is a meal on its own) and then early on Sunday Morning started the drive back. (Roddy had kindly provided great accommodation with his family caravan) This made me laugh Of course we didn’t use it but it’s also my home town which is a bit “toilet” as a place to live goes Trailer loaded up with a car loaded up with more stuff (we may have been a smidge over weight on the trailer and we still had to leave stuff behind) Van had two engines in it and a lot of other spares Took the old bridge back across the forth Then a chance for a breakfast and fuel Once rolling the van could maintain a reasonably happy 50 mph but we certainly knew we were towing Getting overtaken by a house was embarrassing!!! Some moody old sky around although we’d been lucky with the weather The posts are so people know where the road is when it snows – Hmm we have an inch where I live and the whole world grinds to a halt!!! Arrived home late Sunday afternoon and promptly unloaded trailer and van – was a long weekend but worth it
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Build & Restoration Roadtrips johnthesparky
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Jun 13, 2020 13:10:45 GMT
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Had a road trip to Newcastle upon Tyne with the kids, to collect a cheap welder from someone from the forum.... I’m aware that it would have been cheaper to just buy a new welder.... but where’s the fun in that! Added bonus was I went to uni up there, so we stayed over and went for a mooch on the Saturday, before collecting bits late afternoon and running home
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bstardchild
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Jun 13, 2020 13:15:59 GMT
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Good little welder that will be given a good service - at least it wasn't an SIP
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Jun 13, 2020 14:23:18 GMT
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As the UK is the source of many Rover related items, i have a few trips to the UK. One was to pick my daily P5B in 2013, i had bought at an aution from Barons near London. 2 days after returning from the auction, i rented a bever tail and left Holland at 4.30 in the morning to drive threw Belgium to Calais to take the train under the Canal to the UK. Picked up the Rover near London and drove to Dover again to wait for the train to arrive Arrived at home at 00.30 so it was a long day but you do not seem to notice when you are picking up nice presents. The next day, i had to get early again to bring the bever tail back before 7.30 to avoid rent for another day. This was a 150 km trips as place where you can rent a bever tail are scarce. It was a nice car to drive. You hartly noticed the 1800kg of Rover. A few month later, i had bought 4 Jensen alloys in the UK to fit to the Rover. Another early start from Holland, this time with the Rover, drove to Calais to take the ferry as my Rover had LPG so was not allowed on the train. Had removed the rear seats to store the wheels Waiting for the ferry in Dover Arrived around 24.00 in Holland again. The Rover performed very well. Had loads of spares with me as i had not made long trips with the Rover before. Have made a trip in Holland to pick up a spare Rover V8. Did not have a towing hook so removed the passenger seat and door card. Made a kind of ramp which had the same height as the Rover so could slide it in. Worked very well but sadly do not have any pictures Peter
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Jun 13, 2020 14:30:27 GMT
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Good little welder that will be given a good service - at least it wasn't an SIP We’ve used it on the Fug, practice welding and also the Astravan.... It came with a nearly full big roll of wire on it, I only changed it a week ago (picked it up September 2017)
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Jun 13, 2020 16:44:36 GMT
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Makes it a bit of an event if you can see something on the way, anyone can sit on a motorway for hours on end, but where’s the fun in that? When I used to drive round the country for a living I frequently found I could use the lanes or a roads and beat colleagues who were sat on the motorway, and got to see some great places into the bargain, plus it’s nice when someone else is paying for the fuel!
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Jun 13, 2020 21:55:33 GMT
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I am fortunate enough that I can take new Transits with a full tank of fuel from work, longest trip in the Uk was up to yorkshire from essex to collect a minor engine, then down to somerset to collect furniture then back, a high series modern Transit Custom has got to be one of the best road trip cars, adaptive cruise, auto, lane keeping umpteen way electric seat 400 nm etc. makes it effortless the high seating position is great too.
Years ago I worked in Cologne, used to drive back to the UK every weekend, the last stretch was unlimited, 120mph in a diesel scorpio watching the vortexes of smoke in the rear view mirror illuminated by the cars you pass. This was before the Belgians got hot so speed, in the dead of night you could get close to 2 hours to do the 200 miles Calais to Cologne. Only time I ever got stopped was in customs both ways for ages when I borrowed a black 24V, probe apparantly smugglers wouldn't have been seen dead in bug eyed scorpio estate!
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samta22
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I've done a few interesting trips in the name of car parts over the years, the most recent being blackpool for another A35 shell and spares (more on that later perhaps), the craziest was probably the overnighter to scotland and back in one hit for a Celica shell - that hurt for a few days after, but for reasons other than you are probably thinking... Full context of story is here - forum.retro-rides.org/post/2221511I got a message from elbak77 via the celica club forums along the lines of "I have a spare shell with all the bits you need, is it of interest?" I must confess my initial reaction was that it was too far from me (Kent to Glasgow) and so just not feasible with current diary commitments... I was soon convinced by a mate that I would be mad to not think seriously about it given it had what I needed. Sooooo (you can see what's coming), a plan was soon hatched to fetch it over as minimal time frame as possible and a date was set... The day of reckoning came last Friday morning and after an early visit from the roofers (another story!), I headed, albeit slightly later than intended, over to Horsham to pick up the transporter from www.transporterhire.co.uk who couldn't have been more helpful.
However before I could merrily head northbound, just to complicate things even more, I had to head south to get an A35 shell for one of our other projects that I'd agreed to pick up for SWMBO before the Celica shell - in for a penny and all that... Now I must confess, what I was expecting and what I saw when I went to collect the transporter were two very different things... nice comfortable transit for some serious mileage... er no... in short the van was a bit grim to say the least, it was definitely showing the full extent of it's 233,000 miles on the clock inside and out. If I'm honest I was doubtful of reaching Southampton let alone Scotland at that point, particularly in any form of comfort. The seat padding was definitely 'used' (read non-existent for passenger seat!) and the steering wheel had shed its outer skin a long, long time ago to the extent you got black hands whenever you grabbed it... Still it was too late now so the paperwork was done and I hit the road.
The beast in question... Thanks to the world seemingly going utterly mad in the wake of the Brexit outcome, the motorways were a state and so I decided to head cross-country, seemingly a good decision as with minimal holdups I was at my destination in a couple of hours. Lugged the first shell on (joys of getting a transporter with a winch!), a fill up of diesel and a quick bite saw me heading back for the first unload... although not before the M25 had it's say on my return - definitely should've stuck to A-roads!But I made it eventually - 165 miles and nearly 6.5 hours later.So after unloading the first shell and safely storing that away it was home for a quick shower and bite before meeting my copilot ready for the trip north. The plan we'd concocted was to leave at c10.30pm to avoid the worst of the Friday night traffic, that would allow us time to park up just shy of our final destination for a quick kip and breakfast. We could then finish the last leg at a more sociable hour and still be on time for an early-ish start back home.Now on the whole the great thing about travelling at night is the lack of traffic (asides lorries), there is however one scourge - the night workman and their penchant for road cones... a familiar sight was soon becoming regular every few miles along with the mandatory 50 mph limit despite not seeing a single workman for many miles.As we drove on it soon became apparent that dawn was not far away and we'd be back in daylight sooner than we thought - 3am to be precise... ahh the joys of summer! What we eventually got was a stunning sunrise as we drove through the lake district - the one where the mist is laying in the valleys and the hills rising like islands - must admit I was feeling pretty good at this point and in awe of what a stunning country we live in. Game on. We crossed the Scottish border at 5am, knowing we weren't too far away from a bit of brekkie and a short kip... all the motivation we needed at this stage. We eventually parked up at 6.30 and got a brief kip in before it was time for a quick bite and the last leg of about 30m mins to finish to arrive at 9 as agreed. After being greeted by David and called a couple of mad men by his wife we loaded the shell and then had a brief tour of Davids toys - just wow! It was particularly good to see TonyBMW's efforts (http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/149868/1980-m535i-black-toyota-celica), will make a stunning car when finished. My personal favourite though was David's TA22 longnose GT retrorides.proboards.com/thread/171227/74-celica-ta22gt - looked just as impressive in the flesh... as I've said previously - if mine ends up half as good looking I'll be a happy boy. Many thanks again David - was great to finally meet! So at 10am with the shell loaded it was time to point the boneshaker south and head on home... with one quick essential stop first... The journey back, despite being during the day, was pretty uneventful. A bit more traffic so took a little bit longer, but as we were that little bit more jaded and the important bit had been done, we just took our time, not without a good dousing from the Scottish weather as a reminder of where we'd been At just after 6.30pm we arrived at the final destination and unloaded... job done! Well almost... I must confess that after the best part of 20 hours on the road not including the trip to Southampton and back, I did consume a can of redbull to get me over the finish line and get the truck returned . Finally returning home at 9.30pm a very tired, yet very happy boy - mission complete! Honestly couldn't believe we'd done it and the van had performed effortlessly. So in summary, two mates, nearly 1,300 miles, numerous coffees, 2 fill stops, and a battered old bus that didn't die and instead delivered... mostly backache come to think of it!
Sunday... alas no real chance of a lie in so out came the angle grinder and the salvaging began
What a weekend! Some great memories made and something to look back on for a while. Would I do it again? absolutely... but perhaps in something a bit nicer inside and with cruise control...
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Jun 14, 2020 12:48:19 GMT
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Keep the stories coming, really enjoying them. Top stuff. Me? Of course I can add something. Just completed a 30km journey to collect a new pair of bumpers. Basically first time me and daughter have really left the street since March 17, so groundbreaking! Pics? Too busy avoiding the out of practice drivers! But to prove it, look!
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Last Edit: Jun 14, 2020 13:11:50 GMT by georgeb
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This is a great thread and I have a few stories about road trips like that fit the scope but I wanted to start with this one as it's a little left field as what we came back with wasn't exactly tangible. It was 2010, out final year of university where we had been for 4 year. I'd known broady since 1st year and we had been to Le Mans the previous year but didn't do the full road trip we'd planned as the fasty was having engine trouble. This year would be different as it was to be a blow out of 4 years of studying, drinking and being a group of big kids before we moved on in various directions to get jobs and pay taxes. Before exams started we were all told what day the results would be posted and explicitly told to be in the country for that news should we need to resit anything they insisted that it would be a quick process and they won't alter plans around us, we understood that as if you need to resit travel fast! So the road trip had formed around the plan of the ill fated 2009 trip; go to France, drive to Le Mans via as many former circuits as possible e.g. Rouen, Monthelery etc, Have a week of drinking and watching racing then off to the Nurburgring via Reims - easy! Final year was an interesting time because we found a former pub that had been converted to a 15 bedroom student house which we managed to get as 1 group, we all studied Motorsport or engineering and were all onboard for the trip taking 10 cars including: 1986 Audi Quattro UR Turbo, Broady's 74 Fastback, my 1986 Mk2 Golf GTI. I mention these 3 in particular because they all bailed out! The Quattro needed work, the fasty had engine issues again and my golf was consistently broken into so I was forced to get something else. Luckily I swapped it for an E36 325 from somebody on here at a motorway services outside Manchester - I digress... Before setting off it was only fair we were going to a race and needed a racing car so the E36 was stickered quickly on my parents drive using whatever stickers I could find and a rally style name tag for myself and a mate of mine who was tagging along - a word to the wise, If you love being pulled over by the police car put USSR flags on your car. We made it to Le Mans relatively pain free and even managed to sneak into the pits just by looking like we know what we were doing. The race was a good one with some dramatic moments for Peugeot and Nigel Mansell (look on Youtube) With that the 1st week was over - onto the 'Ring. If you've never been to Reims I'd recommend it if you're in the area, it's a strange sight as you're on a regular road that's arrow straight then out of nowhere a grandstand and pit lane appear then it's farm land again as if nothing happened. The site itself has a feel to it of significance like you'd feel at any historical site but hard to describe. That night we ploughed on to the ring managing to go through 4 countries in 4 hrs (France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany) arriving at the ring at an ungodly hour with no where to stay we slept in the carpark for Kamping Am Nurburgring. We stayed at the ring for a few days viewing the castle and a bit of the local area to eat at the Pistenklause every night because the steaks are amazing and if you're nice to the landlord he would stay open for as long as you wanted. I can't remember the exact date but it was about 10 years to the day that we got up and went to McDonalds for a cheap coffee and free WIFI, it was results day - we all passed and did well it was a great shared experience for us, we celebrated by doing the ring in horrendous wet weather! Terrifying, white knuckled and pumped full of adrenaline I went full send and survived! We graduated a month later with our degrees being awarded by Sir Patrick Stuart - another surreal day and one I'll never forget. I'd like to do this trip again in the Cortina when it's done but I know it'll be a different experience as there are a lot of factors that can't be replicated but if you get the opportunity to do any of these places or experiences just go for it!
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Roadtrip Tuesday (yesterday) - Car trailer again behind the P38 (I reside in North Hampshire) Loaded with this 1947 Jowett Bradford van On which I have just completed a new fabric roof First stop is Bradford hence a early 06:00 hours start from home This is the home of Jowett Car Spares Its by no means your normal club spares with a few hard to find parts Its run for the club members by the club members - all voluntary Catering for circa 30 different models of the Jowett range from 1910 - 1954 With spares ranging from new old stock / remanufactured & used parts - no Jowett could be maintained on the road without this superb service I dropped a couple of parts with them whilst also collecting a Javelin windscreen from them Next stop was Keighley to deliver the Bradford van back its owner whom happens to own a long established Service / Repair / MOT centre The original Jowett Motors sign is unique - I have never seen or come across another The workshop is fairly time warp Has are some of the clients cars martin42006 met up with me here to collect a specialised panel boding adhesive that I have access to - always nice to catch up with likeminded individuals on the forum but I couldn't hang around for long my day was quickly disappearing Next stop was Bingley to collect these panels plus a back axle form a client for a future Jupiter project - then I had to get going in order to get to Preston for the next collection and before Ribble Technology closed for the day Awaiting paint / rust removal was this Mk2 Escort shell Along with a Karmann Ghia However it was this 1954 Jowett Jupiter that I collected Then I had to get going again - Lymm Services down the M6 to meet Badwolf - another pack of panel bonding adhesive despatched but I still have another stop yet - on to Knutsford Services to meet a fellow Jowett Car Club member & client - he had a few parts for me in order to further a his Javelin project that I have with me - from here I could now head home - only another 180 miles / 3 hours to go but its now after 18:00 hours - 21:30 and I was backing with the trailer down the lane to the workshop / house - So 7 collections / deliveries - 2 being vehicles - 500 miles the obvious 2 tanks of fuel for the hungry V8 Range Rover and a awful long day - nice to see people though - get things done and keep the wheels oiled Nearly forgot until I unloaded this morning Bonnet / boot floor & slam panel for a certain Mr moglite also collected from Ribble Technology
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Chris - Brilliant to see the photos of your trip. What a packed day and that spares store... absolutely wonderful. What an Aladdin's cave. Great to meet up with you again. Sorry it wasn't for longer, but maybe next time... I can bore you some more Thanks for taking the time to make the delivery. You are a TRUE GENT. Keep sharing the knowledge, don't let it get lost in this modern way of doing things. We all appreciate it.
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