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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2010 12:38:26 GMT
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Post by Keef on Dec 10, 2010 12:43:10 GMT
Thought you might enjoy these  Both make great reads. Have you invited the owners to join yet?  |
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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2010 12:46:29 GMT
No, not yet...I only started the group a couple of hours ago! ;D
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Post by Keef on Dec 10, 2010 12:51:43 GMT
No, not yet...I only started the group a couple of hours ago! ;D Anyone would think you were returning a W6 to the road! LOL |
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Post by Penguin45 on Dec 22, 2010 1:32:17 GMT
The Practical Classics link to the restoration of Eugenie is no longer valid as the site was closed this morning. I'm rather annoyed as the thread on there represented some 9 months of my life and a great deal of hard work. Shame to see it just lost.
However - the pics are all stored away. If Admin is happy, I could cook up some sort of precis of the work undertaken to get the old girl sorted.
Guidance, please.
Chris.
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Post by Keef on Dec 22, 2010 6:19:14 GMT
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Post by Penguin45 on Dec 26, 2010 21:38:38 GMT
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Post by faulks on Dec 27, 2010 8:23:46 GMT
Excellent stuff. Nice to see the story resurrected so quickly.
One query from the other end of this game... If you were starting from scratch would you try to find a warts and all project and know what you were getting into, or do what you did and buy and run a runner until it needed comprehensive rebuilding?
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Post by Keef on Dec 27, 2010 10:25:27 GMT
If you were starting from scratch would you try to find a warts and all project and know what you were getting into Nine times out of ten it's always better to buy the best example you can afford. Restoration can sink bucket loads of time and cash. |
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Post by Penguin45 on Dec 28, 2010 16:05:58 GMT
I agree with Keef - buy the best that you can. At the time I bought mine, I had a budget of £600 and very little choice. There was one in Doncaster which I had booked a morning off work to go and have a look at, when this one popped up not three miles from home. It was moderately shiny, had a new MoT and a stack of spares with it for £400. What could possibly be wrong?  . I would certainly never take on one as bad as that again. In it's favour, the actual bodywork repairs cost surprisingly little but a huge amount of time. It would have been a complete non-starter as a professional restoration. Chris. |
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Post by Admin on Jan 1, 2011 15:07:50 GMT
Interesting blog Chris.
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