I wasn't expecting to be able to post an update on the Alfa so soon, but the original creator of my little 6C Sprint, Philip Herrick, has very kindly provided me with some more information about how this bonkers little car came into existence, and also how he constructed it. You can read his 'Engineering Principles' below, and …
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It has been a long time since I've posted an update for this particular car, and even if you follow my social media channels you may not be familiar with it, as it has been in storage. At the time that this little MG arrived in my car time my intention was to modify it …
It has been a long time since I've seen the Escort in our workshop, and its certainly helping to brighten up the place (especially with the grim weather that has arrived recently). The paintwork has now been completed and it has provided quite the transformation, which can be seen in the earlier posts about this …
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Progress on the Escort has finally been moving in the right direction and over the past few weeks I've been visiting the bodyshop to monitor progress and make a few decisions on detail items about the paintwork. I had absolutely no hesitation in deciding that the car was to be repainted in Daytona Yellow. Not …
I thought it was time I posted an update on some of the projects we have in the workshop. Progress has been a little slow up until recently with other work taking priority over our own projects. A couple of new long term projects have also joined the queue in the past few weeks and …
Last week my pre-Christmas purchase finally arrived, though it was only held up due to the festivities and luckily the previous owner was as relaxed about it as I was. I'd been had forewarned by the owner that he hadn't been able to get it running a week before I was due to collect (and …
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Its now been 13 months since I updated this page and the little Renault has been in storage for all of that time and not been touched while other projects have been completed. Since the old man picked up a new Alpine for himself he’s been reinvigorated to get this project started and so the …
Monday 12th March 2018 So our Jaguar XJ6 has just arrived, sight unseen and I was pretty excited personally, this is a rare manual car and also a one owner car with only 46,000 miles on it. It certainly sounds like a winner and the arrival was a pleasant surprise as the car is solid …
Its been something of a hectic week here, with new cars arriving, others being painted and our lovely MK1 Escort Mexico replica being sold. First up is our Sunbeam Alpine, which is now being built back up after being repainted, and I was a little wowed when I saw it come out after being painted, …
Sometimes you have weeks where you feel like you've accomplished a lot, and other times you have weeks like this one, where you've basically moved a lot of cars around and not really solved any problems. Both the Capri-12 and the Alfa 6C Sprint replica are now both inside and dry, though the Alfa has …
