Christ was it August when I last said anything?. Some of you will have seen the following in my 944 thread here. But with a small fasty update at the end.
After Vegas I then had just over a week to finish the prep on a 1912 Talbot type M which I would be supporting on a VCC tour across Spain and France. This would be getting on for 3 weeks away. I will go light on the details to save time. But Spain in September. You'd expect it to be lovely, turns out it was mostly mid-teens and curse word down. Heres a few curated highlights. The route was roughly as follows. Bilbao-Pamplona-Zaragoza-Enge of androa-Barcelona-Peralada-Carcassonne-Montauban-Bordeaux-Le Mans-Caen
We had a little incident; a tyre bead failed and blew off. Luckily it was on an arrow straight road.
There was break down en mass as a number of cars filled up with dodgy fuel. We called in to make sure everyone was doing ok. Luckily the trouble truck was there draining tanks and refilling.
We had drinks at the RAC club Bordeaux over looking the cars
We had a little detour for lunch near cognac
We of course drove as much of a lap as we could.
Anyway you get the idea, very wealthy folk doing very wealthy things. Its a privilege to get to play along.
I also had a personal trip to Germany for museum reason, a friend and I went to the Mercedes and Porsche sheds. If you want photos of this trip too, pipe up now.
I appreciate none of this really has much to do with my car, but its reason enough as to why ive done nowt.
Wait theres more. My garage had become unworkable. It was piled with wibblepoo everywhere. So I took a week off work, aim number 1 clear the place out. I wont give you a blow by blow account of that. But I had made a major upgrade. We are going to have heating.
I bought a Cheap cab heater for £68. Today I made some wall brackets for it.
I now need to get an inch hole through the wall for the exhaust. A job for next week.
The fasty saw some what of an uptick in use. I have a plan to get the engine out this winter and finally sort out the knocking. Along with a switch to DOT 5 and mocking up my two large engines. There is also a steering issue to attend to. Once the garage is a functioning workshop again. Which it will be this week with heating, ill get the old girl in and have the engine out. The 944 has gone into some winter storage for a little while.
After Vegas I then had just over a week to finish the prep on a 1912 Talbot type M which I would be supporting on a VCC tour across Spain and France. This would be getting on for 3 weeks away. I will go light on the details to save time. But Spain in September. You'd expect it to be lovely, turns out it was mostly mid-teens and curse word down. Heres a few curated highlights. The route was roughly as follows. Bilbao-Pamplona-Zaragoza-Enge of androa-Barcelona-Peralada-Carcassonne-Montauban-Bordeaux-Le Mans-Caen
We had a little incident; a tyre bead failed and blew off. Luckily it was on an arrow straight road.
There was break down en mass as a number of cars filled up with dodgy fuel. We called in to make sure everyone was doing ok. Luckily the trouble truck was there draining tanks and refilling.
We had drinks at the RAC club Bordeaux over looking the cars
We had a little detour for lunch near cognac
We of course drove as much of a lap as we could.
Anyway you get the idea, very wealthy folk doing very wealthy things. Its a privilege to get to play along.
I also had a personal trip to Germany for museum reason, a friend and I went to the Mercedes and Porsche sheds. If you want photos of this trip too, pipe up now.
I appreciate none of this really has much to do with my car, but its reason enough as to why ive done nowt.
Wait theres more. My garage had become unworkable. It was piled with wibblepoo everywhere. So I took a week off work, aim number 1 clear the place out. I wont give you a blow by blow account of that. But I had made a major upgrade. We are going to have heating.
I bought a Cheap cab heater for £68. Today I made some wall brackets for it.
I now need to get an inch hole through the wall for the exhaust. A job for next week.
The fasty saw some what of an uptick in use. I have a plan to get the engine out this winter and finally sort out the knocking. Along with a switch to DOT 5 and mocking up my two large engines. There is also a steering issue to attend to. Once the garage is a functioning workshop again. Which it will be this week with heating, ill get the old girl in and have the engine out. The 944 has gone into some winter storage for a little while.
