Hi everyone, sorry there has been no video diary lately, nor many blog posts for that matter. I have to admit I have been playing.
The weather has been mild, the alpacas are all well and I have taken advantage of the peace and quiet to take some time out for me. I have been involved in a 'winter project' to make the track car less like a road car and more like a race car. As the late founder of Lotus Racing once said, "The secret is to add lightness".
I started two weeks ago with a lovely looking car like this.....
Now it looks like the vandals have been at it. Anything that isn't needed has been stripped out and thrown away, no longer do I have any luxuries, no airbags, no electric windows, no electric mirrors, no seats..... Seats comes later. I am having new race seats built for it. I have sold the original seats, so if I want to drive it now, I have a deck chair on hand ;o)) I have received a bit of stick on Twitter about this, my 'winter project' is being referred to as my Scrapheap Challenge. Sandra, you can see my knob is still very much in place.
The glass windows (Except windscreen) have been replaced by Polycarbonate windows, the electric window motors, speakers and inner door cards stripped out, new ultra thin alloy door cards replaced. It's serious you know.....
Meanwhile, Samson has no idea what I am doing climbing about in the car. He thinks it's pure madness brought on by my age.
He's probably right ;o))
I was expecting to see you wiggling away in a post office queue to the sound of You Sexy Thing with a blog title like that! (and as to your chrome plated knob - well!)
ReplyDeleteI can do the 'Full Monty' thing Rosemary, but not with the car. Different type of stripping ;o))
ReplyDeleteI know this is very sad of me to know this Rosemary, but it was Donna Summer's Hot Stuff they were dancing to in the Post Office queue, wasn't it ;o))
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