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‘tis a tad windy out there but Brian and VJN have just returned from an enjoyable morning at the Hubnut social. Picture outside Worcester Lodge on the return voyage.

It's Craftmaster Ministry of health blue, Craftmaster matched the colour from a sample I sent in from Brian. It's good to see that their efforts have sold them more paint than just for Brian alone.

I don't know? It has a certain charm, in keeping with the vehicle but maybe I'm just odd. I always favoured the band camp girl in American pie much to the confusion of my friends.

The only other application I’m aware of was on the works Mini Cooper rally cars, weight loss! Though, why you’d need a mirror is beyond me.

Sexy!!! NOS and correct type wing mirror now fitted to Brian.

After being asked to take Brian to a local car meet it was time to fling open his shed door, he hasn't seen the light of day for some time now. I've been around all the lubrication points and applied motion lotion and washed off all the filth that had accumulated on the body over the winter. Upon turning the ignition key he burst into life immediately and is ready for the (hopefully not too windy) outing tomorrow.

I'm lucky enough that a good friend of mine who moves in the Automobilia circles (the chap in the Dodge pickup on the "Brians first meet video" recognised them online and thought of Brian, even luckier that he knew the chap posting the pictures who then agreed to sell them to him. They did set me back a pretty penny and I may list the other on Ebay to help recoup some of the cost and also help out another rare car get closer to originality. The only other car that I am aware of that sported these was the early Mini Rally cars. I'll still have the original weathered one as a spare.

A Christmas present for Brian.

Looks to be a nice little car for somebody at a much more sensible price compared to other recent offerings.

A little Brian news for those interested. From the get go I have had issues with the exhaust down pipe becoming loose every so often, and I finally accepted that this is due to slight misalignment between it and the heat exchanger. I have taken the system off and cut the exchanger inlet stub out, then replaced it all and re welded the stub back in its relaxed position. Hopefully that resolved this issue. Next, very recently I stopped driving the car as I’d noticed there seemed to be more noise than usual coming from the primary drive casing, upon removal it became evident why. Two of the chain rollers have portions broken off of them, luckily no harm came from this. Owing to lack of funds during the rebuild I did reuse the best of the old chains I had, it seems that was a poor choice. Anyhow I’ve had over 1330 miles from that chain and a new one will be ordered tomorrow.

Looks like he's holding binoculars and has a newspaper or suchlike resting over the controls?

Going through some odds and sods on the Nippy and found this, the air filter has contorted. It still does its job and looks fine externally but it is such a shame, it was perfect until the recent recommissioning. I have had issues with both fuel tap not fully closing (another clean and fresh cork upcoming) and also the float is dented which I think may be allowing the fuel valve not fully closing. These issues have allowed fuel to weep into the air filter when sat idle, I do run E5 but guess this is an effect of Ethanol? Any thoughts?

I had a nice little ride out on Tuesday evening and met two of my nephews for a pint on the way back. The little Norman enjoyed being back out on the open road. https://www.facebook.com/1832825166/posts/pfbid0774J19tEwuNf7R7TYbgK3Tr5HmVRXs44eDR8L4wqH541SCeYvALVn22n1XxtrRGol/?

Two speed Villiers 3K.

New clutch cable made up last week.