Erebus

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A bit crispy mind....
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This image gave me a wry smile.

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 ! 

After changing the Transmission Fluid and filter on my wife’s car, in a hurry to get finished yesterday I backed over my plastic drain pan spilling 10ltrs of ATF over the fresh concrete floor in the new unit at my work. One upside is I found that acetone works really well in removing oil stains from concrete 

Another one picked up this week, an early Omega V6 with just 68k on the clock.

Picked this rather sad looking passat up today, quite uncommon being a GT with the 2.0 16v engine. Non runner at present.

 
Fortunately it came with another tailgate so swapped if over this afternoon.
 

 
Seems relatively solid and apparently ran when parked 16 years ago... Don't really have room for it so will see how long it stays.

Perfection. Job done 
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Ford Capri 1600 Laser 1986 | eBay
Someone doesn't look amused

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Ghia X with beige leather 😍
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156174399447

Peugeot 405 | eBay

What a great collection.  If they'd gone for scrap he'd have been back to haunt someone and rightly so!

Yet more Matchbox, but in boxes now. Firstly this Model A, perhaps not the most exciting casting but I really liked my childhood early cream and green version as depicted on the box

Seller unfortunately just wrapped the lot in paper so the boxes got a bit of damage - as well as underpaying the postage

Coming bang up to date, Modelmatic got a slew of Collectors and Moving Parts 




















Finally, I spotted the last of the latest trio of Hot Wheels Team Transports for not much more than Smyths sell them for. No doubt that means there will dozens on the shelf next week

peugeot 205 diesel BUMBLE BEE. | eBay

Second pass after spraying the seats with  liquid, drill brush attachment scrub then wet vac’d out. 
 
That’s just the base of the rear seat! Can’t wait to do the front seats at the weekend..

£1495
https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1714509

That's an impressive transformation.  Looked minging before

Bought a Vax spotwash machine partly for this and partly because Labrador in the house..
Ordered some drill brush attachments but in the meantime I decided to give one of the rear seat bases a quick pass over with just the machine. Not bad for a single going over!
(Patchy as it’s still damp)
 

Collected it last night, stuck 3 hours insurance on it for £11 and made it the 30 min drive back from Norwich.
First impressions? Decent. Auto box is smooth, it runs/idles lovely, cabin is very basic but I look at this shape and see it as a brand new car still. £550 seems mental. 
 

reliant robin spares or repair | eBay
Honestly think I'd rather see these things be scrapped than be 'Trottered'

Here is the biography for Anne Sellors on IMDB. 

Sounds like a great woman. 
Wonder what she was in?
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1856457/