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Jan 18, 2016 22:39:48 GMT
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Sounds like a great plan. Thanks.
Consider the pump and jack sold!
I'll send you a PM later (or tomorrow if I fall asleep before messaging)
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Jan 18, 2016 21:05:09 GMT
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Can I have this, I'm coming down to Bristol this weekend. ...second (or third) dibs please. Can pick up immediately. Sorry guys, GoJo372 is collecting it this weekend and has already put a deposit on it. If things change I'll let you both know. Thanks for the interest.
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Jan 18, 2016 20:40:54 GMT
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Could I take the pump and jack please?
Also, will you post please if I cover the cost?
Thanks.
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Jan 18, 2016 11:33:11 GMT
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I bought this about 5 years ago and used it to warm up the unit over winter. It's very effective! I ran it on old central heating oil which Grunty kindly donated to the unit, but I'm not there often enough these days to really benefit from using it, so it's up for sale. It looks a bit tired and sorry for itself, but it works really well and you'll certainly warm up most spaces in no time! The filter was changed just before it was last used, but I'd recommend a quick flush out of the tank and a new filter (90p with Halfords trade card) before using it again. £50 collected from Bristol or arrange pony express. I don't think a courier will want to handle this because it has had fuel in it!
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Jan 18, 2016 11:25:23 GMT
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This is the heavy duty Clarke engine stand. Much more stable and capable of taking a lot more weight than the smaller, cheaper, three wheel version. These are £95 new from Machine Mart and this one has only been used a handful of times. The paint is a bit scuffed and scratched from storage, but it functions 100%. www.machinemart.co.uk/p/ces-750a-engine-stand/Fairly easy to disassemble for storage when not being used, it will be apart upon collection to make it much easier to transport. All bolts/nuts are present and it takes about 5 mins to assemble. Collection from Bristol, or let me know where you are in case I can get it moved nearer to you when I'm out and about? £50.00
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Jan 18, 2016 11:18:02 GMT
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Here is a set of four wheel adapters. They were taken off a Mk2 Golf but should be suitable for pretty much any 4x100 car? There is a pair of 15mm and a pair of 20mm and a complete set of bolts so everything you need to fit a set of Porsche wheels. Postage will be £8.50 (they are pretty heavy!) or collection from Bristol. £80.00 for the set, I don't really want to split them into pairs?
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Jan 18, 2016 10:51:16 GMT
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Haha, I've been up hours, just had things like work to do first. I should still be working now, but I'm conscious that I've not kept the updates coming as fast as I'd hoped. So I'm taking a little break to fit in another installment. One thing I've learnt from spending some time in Canada, and now the US, is that the 510 is far more highly/widely regarded and revered than it is here. There is definitely a good, strong fan base here, but nothing compared to the adulation it gets the other side of the Atlantic. I was hoping to have found a cheap 510 for myself to bring back here, I love them, but it would seem that prices are even higher across the pond and this is mainly down to two things; racing heritage and the fact that so many people had them 'back in the day' that there is a lot of fondness for them. With that has come a huge renaissance in the cars popularity. Which has, in turn, driven the prices up a lot. You know how popular and pricey Mk1 & Mk2 Escorts are over here? Same thing over there, even though they are Japanese in origin. Finding an unmolested example is almost impossible because they have mostly been turned into track cars and race cars. Not all, but certainly most. Very rarely you might find a mildly modified example to restore, but the majority will have been beaten around a track at some point. The rarest of all the 510s are the ones built, from the outset, as a genuine race car. And this is what you see here: Look up 510 race cars and you'll see they had a huge impact on motorsport in the early 70s. Labelled 'The Giant Killer', they were super successful on the track and this, in turn, cemented their reputation as bonafide performance cars. As said, this one is very unusual in that it was never road registered, but instead was built to race from day one. Built in 1972, this actual car has raced against Paul Newman and also Dorsey Schroeder (I had to look him up, I'd never heard of him either, I must confess). It also set the track record in the Road America race in 1987. It's a serious bit of kit! The car was bought last year by Fish's Dad, apparently it had only recently been subject of a thorough restoration but it turns out, not thorough enough. Mr Fish Sr is currently tearing it down to do a proper mechanical resto on it. Even in this state, it looked so mean and purposeful. I can't wait to see it when it's all finished. Hopefully with some of the external character left intact? Behind it are two other gems. These are both work in progress projects that started out as road cars and are being turned into track weapons emulating two extremely famous race cars. The interior of '46' hasn't been started yet and will be torn out and made into a proper race spec at some point. '86' is a lot closer to being finished, full cage and interior is done. Once both are complete, they will be run together as a homage to the original and most famous two (out of only three ever made) BRE race cars. I believe the '86' livery will be changed to '85' when this happens? It's not every day you get to spend time gawking over a 510 race car, let alone three of them! As you can probably guess, it's the original '41' that floated my boat more than the two beautifully finished replicas of the BRM team cars, but they were pretty lovely too!
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Jan 17, 2016 23:07:24 GMT
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As soon as we step into the workshop itself, the predictable 'Look, a squirrel' 911 syndrome has me heading straight for that corner. It belongs to Fish's Dad, as do the rest of the cars in here. Well, nearly all of them. It's very tidy and the retro finish to the 16" IB Fuchs is a nice touch. I like red interiors, but I did find this a bit of a jarring shade. Also a bit *too* fresh for my liking. I'd be afraid to sit in there for fear of scuffing the leather or getting dirt/grease all over it. Still a very nice thing! Next to it was an immacualte Mk2 Jag which I didn't even think to photograph, but the little Lancia in front of it, well, that was just too pretty not to get a few snaps of. Even in its incomplete state, it's still a stunner! The other side of the white 911 is an ongoing project which really reminded me of Goldenrust's build. And not just because of the colour: No prizes for guessing why I thought of him? ...and next to that was another MX5, this time running the original engine, albeit with some forced induction: I've never been a huge fan of the Mk3 MX5, but this one looked great (ride height is significantly lower when not on a 2 post lift) I could distract you with more cars, or lots of this kind of paraphenalia that was 'littering' the place, literally everywhere: But I'm going to cut to the chase and show you what really stopped me in my tracks. Something a bit special. When people talk about history, or pedigree....it doesn't get much better than this. [Marks&Spencer food advert voice] This isn't just a race car [/voice] But that's all I'm going to show you for now. The rest can come tomorrow. I'm off to bed. G'night folks.
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Jan 17, 2016 16:14:57 GMT
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I don't think I'd ever slept so well that night? The tiredness from being on the go for well over 48hrs with only an hours sleep ensured it. When I did awake, AJ and I headed out in his R32 four door to meet up with Fish for breakfast. Now, we could have gone to McDonalds, or any of the other chain places but I asked if I could experience something a bit more 'local' than something I could have back in the UK. The guys were 100% up my street and Sarkis was the destination. A firm favourite of both the guys. The place was amazing, so much character. I real slice of American culture with nice people, great food and a 'joint' that was just so effortlessly cool because it wasn't trying to be anything. It was a bit rough around the edges, but that's what made it. No airs and graces, no pretentious decor....just a fantastic cafe. And it has just hit me how much I didn't photograph! I didn't take a single shot inside of Sarkis so you can't get to see what I'm talking about, nor can you see the great food they serve. Having said that, the portions were more than enough for me and I found I could only manage about 1/3 of my breakfast. I truly broke me in the 'must finish what I'm served' stakes. Back outside, we chatted in the car park for a moment and I grabbed a few shots of AJ's car. You wouldn't be able to run blue headlights or tinted windows like that over here, but in Chicago, not a problem. Stood over by Fish's brand new GMC pick-up thing, discussions were underway about where to go today. Both Fish and AJ had kindly taken the day off work to show me around. I insisted I could just explore Chicago on my own and didn't want to impose, but they don't know how to take no for an answer and had plans to show me some cool things. I gave up arguing! I jump in with the big guy and we drive across town to the first of a few destinations. I take the opportunity to snap a few shots of the R32. It looks so good on the move. I've never really been a massive fan of the 4dr, but this car convinced me of how cool they could be if given the right treatment. Something I saw a lot of around the streets of Chicago, a lot of police presence. Apparently Chicago was in the midst of a bad spate of gun related deaths, "10 people killed and 55 more wounded this Fourth of July weekend alone." - you could actually feel the tension in the air in some places. I don't like guns. Or people getting killed. ....we got to our first destination. The garage where Fish's Dad keeps some of his cars. In the yard to the side were a lot of fairly ordinary motors, but this 500SEL stood out to me as a lovely slice of 80s excess. It turns out it was one of Fish's first cars! Just beyond that was his immaculate Mk1 caddy. When I say immaculate, I mean IMMACULATE! Next to it was this curiosity. A genuine 911 which had been given a 959-esque makeover in what I can only assume was the 80s? It was kind of grotesque, but at the same time strangely alluring in that wide-bodied 80s excess kind of way. I would certainly roll it once cleaned up and the ride height sorted. We then headed inside. I think you'll like this part...
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Jan 17, 2016 13:39:45 GMT
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Just refit bonnet. Drive it like you stole it. Goggles optional* *Recommended
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Jan 15, 2016 17:51:24 GMT
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Jan 15, 2016 17:11:11 GMT
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Hopefully more to post up later tonight about the Chicago side of the trip, it's slow going working through all the photos bit by bit! After not updating the thread properly for quite a while, it's hard getting back into the swing of things. Yeah, the 911 is currently on the London Motor Film Festival stand at the NEC which is helping to promote the festival as well as RED camera systems. Bryn asked if it could be used on the stand and I happily agreed. I spent the day there yesterday and met lots of really nice people, even if the show itself wasn't exactly amazing. Some nice stuff there, but I'm not sure I'd want to pay to get in? Toyo tyres also kindly supported/sponsored the car with a new set of its tyres. That's one thing off the MOT hitlist! If any of you are going to the NEC this weekend, please feel free to drop by the stand (hall 19, the Performance Car area) and take a look at the car/say hi to Bryn.
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Jan 12, 2016 11:45:30 GMT
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I'm not making any promises, although I can assure you I'm no financial position to travel much further than the outskirts of Bristol right now! The main issue with the drive to Chicago was tiredness. The drive from Toronto to Chicago in itself was nothing major, but add in the previous travel with next to no rest and I was really starting to feel it. I pulled into a rest stop somewhere along the route, climbed in the back and slept for about an hour. Enough to give me a short rest and I definietly felt better for it (even though I just wanted to go straight back to sleep again when I first woke up) Eventually I got to my destination: AJ's house and the first thing to greet me was Dexter, his dog, a pure bred pitbull and without doubt, the softest, dopiest dog I've ever encountered: If there was ever a dog where their looks and their nature were at complete odds, this big lump of friendly licking machine would be it. So why here? Why Chicago specifically? Well, without going into too much of a rambling, long winded story, I'd become friends with a bunch of guys who live in Chicago. They call themselves Risky Devil and after hanging out with them when they were here in the UK last April, they kindly offered to return the hospitality by letting me hang with them on their home turf. Risky Devil consist of five guys, AJ (Just AJ), Cook (Alex, but referred to as Cook), Fish (Richard, but call him Fish) Steveo (Steve) and T2 (Tim). They are all friends, they all like cars, they all hang out together and together they form Risky Devil drift crew. Like some superhero outfit, but with cars that go sideways and a love of burgers. You can see more details about them here: www.riskydevil.com/ (a bit outdated, but the team bio sums them up perfectly) www.speedhunters.com/2014/04/we-own-the-night-running-with-risky-devil/ (A great article written and photographed a few years ago by bryn) www.needforspeed.com/en_GB/5-ways-to-play/crew (Risky Devil take the role of 'crew' in the new Need for Speed game) So here I am in AJ's garage, under his house, on a hot sunny day, shattered beyond belief but smiling from ear to ear because I just know the next few days are going to be incredible. ^Instagram photo I'm afraid, it wasn't until the next day that I took my camera out of its bag!^ AJ and I chatted for a while and he showed me around the house, although I kept gravitating back towards the garage. Cook turned up shortly after, then Fish, then Steveo. It was just like being together back in the UK, only warmer. And surrounded by America rather than a grimy London! And no Tim, he had other commitments. We spent a good while catching up, we spent ages chatting, we spent hours chilling. AJ's place is perfect for that! ^from left to right: Cook, some Englishman, Dexter, AJ, Steveo and Fish. No prizes for guessing that Fish is the flamboyant extrovert! We then headed out for some food, the biggest rack of ribs I've ever seen or attempted to eat. I place the emphasis on the word 'attempt' because I only think I managed to tackle about 30% of it! Flipping tasty though.... No photos of the first night out I'm afraid. I did manage to grab a snap of them all playing cards back at AJ's place later that night though. To this day I still can't work out how the game was played but it was a lot of fun and really cemented in my mind how the whole 'crew' thing really does permeate through these guys lives, above and beyond some drift cars. I felt honoured to be part of this. To spend some time with the 'real' Risky Devil!
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Jan 12, 2016 10:53:30 GMT
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Hey guys, I'm sorry for not updating this while I was away. After a day of settling in, meeting people, just doing Christmas things, feeling tired and generally having a great time, I decided to leave any updates until boxing day. So, on the 26th I set aside some time and was starting to write up a new post about [option 1] the next leg of the original trip when I realised I would rather spend my time on the trip itself doing awesome things - and boy did I get to do some awesome things! I genuinely didn't have time to do any updates while I was away...and if I did, I'd have missed out on some of those awesome things. I decided to save any further write-ups until I got home. I can only apologise for not seeing the update thing through, I really wanted to (hence asking which way you wanted the story to go) but it just felt that spending time messing about with amazing car and seeing the incredible scenery was what I was really there for. First and foremost, Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all had a good Christmas and saw in 2016 appropriately? @automatik - many thanks for the kind offer of wanting a book, I'm afraid (and please don't think I'm being dismissive) it's the last thing I could think of doing right now regarding my trip. Time is one key factor, as you can see, I haven't even been able to keep the updates on this thread....errr...up to date, so finding the time to get a book sorted is going to be a task too far for me right now I reckon? But I also really can't see it selling? I think EmDee is right with his comments regarding people being able to view it for free and also about numbers. I am genuinely flattered that you would even consider suggesting this, let alone start taking it further. I am equally flattered that people have put their names forward too and also honoured that jamesv would offer to help produce it! Really kind of you guys and I truly love the sentiment, but I personally can't see it translating into print? Thank you, though. Right, I guess it's time to look at more updates? Well, I seem to recall I was on my way to Chicago - as mentioned previously, I'd never ever been to the States before, so it seemed a good opportunity to go. I had a comfy cruiser of a rental car and I had a few days spare. I also stopped at the border and withdrew some money....my first ever US dollars!! OK, that's a lie, I didn't just stop at the border to collect some money, I was stopped because I didn't have a visa, so I got taken into a border station and grilled as to my reasons for wanting to enter the US. Naively I didn't realise a visa was needed (never looked into it before) and just assumed Canada into US was just a case of show your passport and get waved through? I had to pull over at the border station and leave my car unlocked, with my keys in it and was instructed to leave my phone in the car too. I was escorted inside while another officer opened all the doors to my car and started to look inside. The officer wanted to know everything about me, my parents, details far beyond what I was expecting of someone wanting to know why I'd want to enter their country? I genuinely felt like a criminal being interrogated, especially when he got funny with me because he thought I was changing my story about where I was from! "I thought you said you were English, yet your passport says UK?" I tried to explain and in my tiredness I mentioned being British. Big mistake! "So what are you boy? English? British? UK? How can we let you into the US if you can't even decide which country you're from?" It seemed to go downhill from there.....I was shattered after having been in the road (and air) for the past 26 hours and no matter how hard I tried to explain things, the guy just seemed more determined to trip me up with a barrage of questions. I then had my fingerprints and photo taken. He then asked why I was in Canada before coming to the US, I told him I'd been there to buy a car and to meet up with some friends. He started asking all sorts of questions about the car, why I was buying it, why from Canada, what kind of car it was etc.... I went to pull my phone out of my pocket to show him a photo but realised it was in the car. I asked if I could possibly get my phone to show him but instead he picked up his radio, told me to wait there, and moved away to speak something into it. I was getting really worried at this point! Moments later his colleague appeared with my phone and handed it to me, "You were going to show me this car of yours?" - I opened the phone, scrolled to a shot of the 912 and showed him. He took the phone and held it over the counter to show his other colleague "Oooh, now that's a proper car, unlike your pile of American curse word" and suddenly the mood in the room changed from serious to jokes and laughter about cars. I genuinely didn't know whether to laugh or be frightened? The split second change from intense interrogation to banter really threw me. After more jokes were banded about between the officers, the main guy turned back to me and apologised for being so harsh, "It's the middle of the night and we don't often get English people trying to cross from Canada without a visa, but you've OK by us and we love your car" He got me to fill in a form to give me a 3 month visa which took a lot longer than it should have to fill in, mainly because he wouldn't stop talking to me about cars. I then had to go across the road to a small service station to get some money to pay for the visa and also for the toll across the bridge into Canada. When I got back to the office, I noticed my car still had all the doors open, but nothing inside was moved or messed with. I paid for my visa, got my passport back and was sent off with a cheery goodbye and waves from the three previously stern, po faced border guards. I drove out across the bridge with my heart still beating a bit fast, not really knowing how to react to the way my first experience of US border police had gone. Surreal is about the only way I could describe it. The twelve dollars I had in ^that photo^ was all I had left of the forty dollars pulled out of the cash machine. Just like in Canada, most of my spending would go on my debit card, so much easier, but it was really nice to actually have some real dollars in my hand as I crossed into the States. Even if it was just a token amount. Now 27 hours into my travel from Calgary to Vancouver to Toronto to Chicago, I settled down into my seat and concentrated on the 6hr drive ahead of me. I was finally in the United States. Chicago here we come.....
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Dec 25, 2015 19:22:21 GMT
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Just landed in Boston. Customs even let me through!
Just collecting my suitcase then got a few hours drive to where I'm staying. I'll try and add an update later tonight if the jet lag doesn't get me first?
Merry Christmas everyone.
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So here we are on Christmas Day. MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone! I had hoped to have been on the last installment of this amazing (for me)trip by now, this Christmas update was supposed to be one of me saying a sad good bye to Canada and landing back in the UK, finishing the story of the trip while you wear your finest Christmas jumper, scoffing mince pies and waiting eagerly for the Queens speech. Or something like that. Instead, I find myself quite far behind with the story, only just leaving for Chicago and a whole new leg of the adventure left to go. There is still a lot to bore you with and if work hadn't been so manic for the past month, you would have read all of this by now and seen all of the photos. But work *was* manic and, as a result, I missed my own self imposed deadline for completing the updates. Sorry about that. Please submit your requests for a refund ASAP. However, this leaves me with a dilemma and I'm going to let you guys choose the outcome....and interactive thread where you decide what happens next. At this very moment I am sending this update live from here: Terminal 5 of Heathrow airport. You see, I may have done something a bit silly and instead of spending Christmas Day with my lovely girlfriend and our dog, Jed, I am waiting for a flight to Boston where I'm then going to spend Christmas, New Year and through to the 6th of January in New Hampshire on another automotive adventure. SO.....here is the choice you need to make: 1) I carry on with the thread chronologically. I've brought all the photos with me, so I can keep the updates coming if you wish? Basically this option sees the story carry on as it has been going. OR 2) I put the Canada story on hold for the time being, leaving the details of the rest of the trip until I am home in January and, instead, keep the installments coming but with *live* updates of my current roadtrip? The choice is yours. Continue with Canada/Chicago (with my Christmas trip added afterwards) OR live updates from New Hampshire while I'm there and then finish the Canadian adventure when I'm back in the UK? I'll be off air for most of today while I fly across the Atlantic then travel up to Center Harbor. But once I'm back online, I'll let the general consensus dictate which way this thread goes and will accordingly continue with updates. Oh, and this current adventure might just involve another car purchase. After all, it is Christmas.... Merry Christmas everyone.
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Dec 24, 2015 12:41:40 GMT
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....and before anyone asks, there is NO further car buying from now on. Two Porsches is more than enough!
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Dec 24, 2015 12:39:17 GMT
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Coming back to the story, After a long trip from Calgary to Vancouver (including that AMAZING time in the Rockies with the car): ....I was about to board a plane back to Toronto. I was due to land sometime around 8pm. Once back in Toronto I made my way back to the Yukon which was waiting for me in a local car park. £25 for a weeks parking near the airport including shuttle to & from the terminal....the UK could learn a LOT from Canada! I was tired, I was very, very tired! I'd been on the go for over 24hrs with a token 3hrs sleep in Vancvouver whilst feeling as ill as I'd ever felt. Every fibre in my body wanted to get back to camerashy's place in Waterloo, less than an hour from the airport, and just crash in the comfort of his oh so comfortable spare bed. Then drink tea and eat pancakes with maple syrup, and catch up about adventures and other things with an amazing friend who I'd missed since leaving his place a week ago. But instead, I climb aboard the good ship GMC 'Leviathan', fill up with gas, stock up on rot beer and snacks..... ...and point the car to the US border. A 9hr drive lay ahead but this is what we do, right? Why be rational and seek refuge and sleep when Chicago beckons? I'd never ever been to the US, so why not now? The next leg of my adventure had begun.
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Dec 24, 2015 12:25:34 GMT
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It was over a month later before I got to play deja-vu with the 911. Last Monday, in fact. bryn was sadly unable to make it down due to a last minute work thing, but George ( goliath) was super quick to accept his first refusal spot for coming on this micro roadtrip. Volvo, trailer and Porsche. Getting to be a common sight! Once again we met up with rmad and also skinnylew so that they could finally see this long anticipated arrival. No photos this time because I was on a bit of a schedule....and still had a lot to sort once I got back to Bristol, so it was a nice catch-up, if a little hurried and short. Big thanks to Tim for the amazing couple of photos of a 930 flatnose. A few hours later the car was tucked up safely in Area 52....many thousands of miles travelled and here is was in Bristol. Finally. What an adventure that had been from the outset of seeing that first picture, to getting it here.
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Dec 24, 2015 12:10:47 GMT
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OK, seeing as you asked! I was going to keep these under wraps until well after the end of the story, especially as I had to wait for them. But I guess you lot are more impatient than I am? First to arrive was the 912 back on the 4th November. The arrival was even sooner, but I had work commitments that meant I couldn't collect it for nearly a fortnight. The anticipation of knowing it was int eh country and I couldn't fetch it was torture! But it was all worth it the moment I pulled into the customs clearance yard: Dave (Butterz) came with me and we quickly got it loaded onto the trailer once I'd paid the storage fees having let my six free days lapse by a whole week. It was only £30 storage which I thought was pretty good? rmad really wanted to see the car and he lives literally two minutes around the corner, so I called him up and we met just down the road from the customs yard. It also gave us another chance to check the straps and trailer before we headed off to Bristol and the the cars new home: Obligatory 'so excited with my new purchase I must take more photos' kinda shot at the motorway services on the M4. HOME!! Thousands of miles traveled, over a year since the beginning of this journey and it was finally here. Words: once again I was lost for them. A few days later I managed to get the time to pull the Land Rover out of the garage and take it to Area 52 which meant there was finally space to put the 912 inside, out of the winter weather. A shot of the two together before I took the LR elsewhere. The first time these two were together. The last time these guys will be alongside each other for quite some time. One last shot of the 912 with some light just picking out the details at night. I LOVE THIS CAR!!!!!
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