The edited for brevity and avoidance of libel version is thus:
The vehicle was destined to be a project at a day center. One thing led to another (as they tend to do, one thing seldom unleads to another, does it) and after a couple of years of indecision it was destined for a skip.
I hired a flatbed transit tipper (that was fun, never driven anything that big before, and never want to again!) and saved it whilst there was something left to save (it's amazing how much had either gone missing or been broken in the last few months...). I orignally set a target of 7 days to complete, but money, energy and weather were against that, as well at times as motivation.
But it still exists as something other than cheap Chinese imports, which has to be a good thing right? It's still a way off being finished, there's the brakes to fit, clutch to free off, some bodywork left to do, the back end to sort out and various other bits and pieces, but it's coming together bit by bit.
A lot of the welding and all the painting has been done by a friendly man who can - He did pretty well I think considering the materials I waved at him (a litre of 40% matt celly, some cheap thinners and a tub of high build primer)! I found out today the local Partco have 1l tins of zinc celly primer for a tenner, but too late now even though I would've used it if I'd known.
I don't have any pics of it arriving on the back of the transit, but here's a sort of before and currently after to make me feel maybe something has happened in the last two weeks!
Or at least, it feels that way!
