its been a long time.
Health - work - fake flu (c19) etc etc took time from me.
Anyway = back to business -- I bought another car
First time I saved it from being sold as parts 5 years ago.
The owner had bought it 18 years ago (in Sweden) and taken it to Denmark.
He wanted to get it fixed up for MOT, and use it.
The mechanic that was suppose to help him, said it was a piece of junk, so the owner got very dissapointed & put it in a garage, and locked the door.
18 years later he lost the right to use the garage, and put the car up for sale, as spares on fb -- all the Voltures soon jumped on him to buy parts from it.
but I saw more than them = a hole in the dashboard above the lighter & fan switch, and one more in the steering columm schroud.
This coupled with the fact that it had twin SU,s made me ask for a picture of the tag plate.
Sure enough she was a genuine 12235 = 122 Sport (B18D) with factory fitted overdrive by Laycock de Normanville, and not only that = she was a early one too = October 1961. Registred with her first owner in November that same year.
The car was completely rustfree, and the brakes wasnt rusted solid, so I made him a offer to get the car fixed, and MOT,ed.
After it got plates on he lost interest again, and left the car on a public road (unlocked) for 2 years - he then called me, and said he wanted to sell the car, because some guy wanted it, and use it as dayli driver untill its MOT expired.
I then jumped in, and bought the poor old car.
Soon after I got her the fauchi flu hit us, and I started fixing things on her, this lead me to removing the rear axle, as one of the trailing arms were wrong + various other faults.
Then I got ill (blood cloths in the brain - frozen shoulder etc) so she was left sitting on the lift.
Now with light at the end of the tunnel, I hope to get her back together again.
Jens Christian
nahh - she still has her original engine, so she will live a relaxed life in my care.