Alan_Green

For aslong as I can remember I've wanted to be directing my own path in business but never had the actual confidence to overcome huge self doubt and fears of failure, in 2021 when I nearly met with my mortality thanks to covid I remember hating that I'd played things safe as houses like a boring nobody and literally despite continued health maladies I feel that I've got a second run up at life , so I'm starting from nothing at 35 and want to get pushing forward with what is abit of a dream for me .
So basically my sister and I have teamed up to create a new garage/engineering works of which provides the usual bread and butter garage services and also more specialised work less commonly found like large manual machining capability and welding.
We're looking to stock up on a range of common classic parts too so that we can take on most project work without waiting on parts turning up in ebay etc albeit limited space prevents stocking a vast amount.
So far over the last 8 months !

Obligatory huge lathe brought back somewhat inappropriately 


Company car brought down , inappropriately 

Lathe electrical rebuild done because it was dangerous as hell, 415 through the soaked push buttons etc ,,horrible ! Once cleaned and generally setup it's been put to work straight away!

 
this s100 k series swap was quite aquite to drive, getting one to fit the earlier car isn't bolt in like with the estelle and rapid !

Cambelt snappage job on an iveco 2.3, lots of new valves and lapping required!

loads of work done, and loads more hopefully to come ! 

Followed the UK's biggest Kia fan boy today.

Roffle win 1989 Saab 900.  Somewhere in the Lake District.  2020.  

Not really a welcome as I have been a member since the early AS days but haven’t been on here for a long time.  
 
Now living in Gibraltar and driving an early Mercedes ML
My Rover 75 unfortunately couldn’t come with me so it sat in a garage unused in the UK for a couple of years and now has gone to its new owner in Belgium.  

And one from me too after being made aware of it. 

Roffle win 1989 Saab 900.  Somewhere in the Lake District.  2020.  

Roffle win 1989 Saab 900.  Somewhere in the Lake District.  2020.  

Bombing along a desolate M25 at midnight last night and suddenly there's 20 MPH limits everywhere.  What the hell?  Why do we have to do only 20 MPH?.....Oh, ok.  Fair enough...

Bombing along a desolate M25 at midnight last night and suddenly there's 20 MPH limits everywhere.  What the hell?  Why do we have to do only 20 MPH?.....Oh, ok.  Fair enough...

Bombing along a desolate M25 at midnight last night and suddenly there's 20 MPH limits everywhere.  What the hell?  Why do we have to do only 20 MPH?.....Oh, ok.  Fair enough...

Bump.  Walked past a lovely patina'd 1964 VW Van in Finchley last night.  It looked tiny compared to the modern vehicles parked on either side.  Because I'm sad I decided to work out which van had the nearest "footprint".  Turns out the old shape Doblo has almost the same dimensions:

Cool name bro.

Cool name bro.

Cool name bro.

Cool name bro.

Cool name bro.

Although I've been quietly wandering around this forum as a guest for a while I though perhaps it was time to take the plunge and sign up.
At the somewhat advanced age of 74 and not being the fittest of individuals my days of crawling about underneath cars are behind me now  but I still dabble in things that don't require too much physical effort.
Over the years I've owned all sorts of four wheeled transport ranging from utter crap to almost decent. Perhaps the most interesting was a Clio 182 Turbo - all 240 bhp of it. Currently we have a 2016 Toyota Auris Hybrid and a 2017 Lexus IS300 Hybrid. Both come under the heading of "Not exciting but totally reliable".
Current project I'm involved in is the grey thing in the attached photo.

 See if you can read the badge and work out what it is. 

Cool name bro.

Need to carry 4 adults (plus driver) but also need a little side hustle?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145597946482?hash=item21e6505a72:g:JRoAAOSwAtJlwk5T



Stockport Funerals R Us.

Mercury Mountaineer.

Take the wheel Jess.

 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/684681187164967/

Or you could visit this absolute thundering weapon of a dealer asking £4k for a V6:
https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/1992-k-mazda-626-25-v6-gt-auto-5dr-low-mileage-2-owners-from-same-family/1451566897
Pretty sure it's been there for a good nine months so far. 

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401285978658?sort=most-recent&advertising-location=at_cars&page=3&postcode=CB12AZ&price-to=1000&year-to=2006&fromsra