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Posted: Sun May 10th, 2015 13:15
 
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Robert wrote:
Following a barrage of eMails and PM's from JK, he has asked me to stand in for him while he is away. I have been in the shed all day wiring my new car. Apart from the odd snap and recording my progress with my car build, I haven't taken a single photograph so far this year.

Once the car is back on the road for the first time since February 1991, I hope to be using it to trundle about in the Lake District and further afield.

As for Fb my ex wife, who practically lives on Fb, sat me down over a coffee and spent well over an hour trying to explain to me what it does and I am still bewildered, I really can't see what it is trying to achieve, even less can I see any reason to engage with it. But then I don't have television or a telephone either, so I am probably beyond help.

Robert

One thing the car build is doing is creating local interest, I have a succession of visitors who call by to see how I am going on and to check up on my progress.

This is the sort of car I am aiming to replicate, roughly...



This was taken about a month ago.



I am not trying to build a replica, rather take some of the more appealing features of the Alfa Romeo style and re-create them in my own way.


You had me going there with that first photo, Robert. I thought you had been working 24/7 since our last chat, to finish the car!



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Posted: Sun May 10th, 2015 15:53
 
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Well I had been working 12-14/7 up until Easter but my left knee has been playing up, when I compared it with my right knee it's quite swollen and lumps where the other knee has hollows... So I have backed off a bit, only doing a max of 12 hour days now. Just finished, been wiring the front lamps. Now have headlamps and almost indicators!!!

I am gradually reading the recent posts, frankly there doesn't seem to have been that much activity here since Christmas. Still no sign of the fabled D400.

I showed the guy who lives on Oakdale (The boat in the IR photograph) and he was well impressed. He wants a copy, but I think it would have to be printed on stainless because his boat has sunk twice since Christmas, not as big a deal as it sounds, I doubt it has much more then 2 ft of water under it even at normal high tides. Anything on board needs to be robust and pretty unaffected by salt water. He lost a couple of TV's the first time it sank.



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