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Bit like where's Wally - where's Andy?

Sorry for being so quiet as was away in France on Historic tour, saw commetns on phone but couldnt respond due to not remembering password, anyhow back now.

The tour was brilliant and if anyone wants to have some fun doing something different then I highly recommend it. Lots of nice people, great drives, great cars!

Sorry not to see you there Smash, but had a good chat with your mates.

Here are some pic's in date order....

IMG_0754 by eric holm, on Flickr

IMG_0758 by eric holm, on Flickr

IMG_0764 by eric holm, on Flickr

IMG_0773 by eric holm, on Flickr

IMG_0781 by eric holm, on Flickr

IMG_0784 by eric holm, on Flickr

IMG_0852 by eric holm, on Flickr

IMG_0857 by eric holm, on Flickr

IMG_0874 by eric holm, on Flickr

IMG_0880 by eric holm, on Flickr

IMG_0889 by eric holm, on Flickr

IMG_0910 by eric holm, on Flickr

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Thanks Smash, They selected a number of cars and they were all amazing. The event was themed for German cars this year and 2 stunning porsches took some prizes with the grand prize going to a bright red ammerican pick up truck!

I have a little video and will post at some point.

Hi WCA, yep I like all the traits too, very subtle, its an amazing car!

Ha ha just and iPhone and a little luck with being creative, took about 300 pics in total, these were a selection of the best

ericholm – More great photos Andy.

Your car certainly doesn’t look out of place at an event like that.

Enjoy, Paul.

Andy - my brother (with the green TVR) was very impressed with how your car was turned out. He's told me I need to clean my interior!

Also told me it took 4 goes at painting it to get it right in the end?

Said it was getting a lot of interest people asking the make of kit etc.

Did you see my mate Inus's big old 1936 Bentley?

Hi Scot,

Yes had a good chat with your brother, please pass on my regards and with one of the blokes with a Cobra, who had a spinner come off but managed to retreive it! For the paint on my car we were trying to go with a chrome/silver finish and it didn't come out as expected, I am told it was a new paint type that needed a particular process, anyhow the final result is great and happy/delighted with it in the end. Yes there was lots of interest in the car, asking what kit it was, etc. I am a sales man by trade and think I did a good job telling people about it. However interest doesn't always immediately convert into orders... There were 2 large old massive cars a Merc and a Bentley that I saw and they lloked fantastic, hats off to those drivers who drove them so far, lets hope our cars will still be around in 80 years or so!

I hope your mates arrived back safely from the trip, as I said in a previous post, it was very worth while and fun!

Yeah I told him it was going to be chrome originally. He was telling him how filthy my interior is compared to yours which he said looked mint!

He also thoroughly enjoyed it (must've done he was on the phone for an hour and half last night!). I think it was the fact it was more participative than things like Le Mans - he also said it was really well organised for such a large amount of cars and appears to have picked up a random french woman who wanted to go for a lap of the circuit!

Classics on the Crick

Hi,

Went to Classics on the Crick today and managed to win first prize for the car, over some other very nice cars. The judges must have had good taste in my oppinion!

Img_0963a by eric holm, on Flickr

Well done Andy. Good to see a tribute with fans outside of this group

Dave

Congrats Andy! Well done.

Thanks!

The judge said that it was difficult to see that it wasn't the real thing, I assume he meant from the outside at least.

Although these things are subjective, but good to get and hope tributes can get many more as would prove the brand is as good as the rest of them, if not better.

Cheers.

Having a great series of hot and fantastic weekends so far this year, great getting out and about using the car and having to clean the fly splats off! after a good run eace:

aImg_1041 by eric holm, on Flickr

aImg_1033 by eric holm, on Flickr

Welsh weekender

_IMG_1178 by eric holm, on Flickr

_IMG_1170 by eric holm, on Flickr

_IMG_1155 by eric holm, on Flickr

_IMG_1131 by eric holm, on Flickr

_IMG_1124 by eric holm, on Flickr

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_IMG_1101 by eric holm, on Flickr

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Very nice, looks the business!

Time for wires....

Hi Smash,

Yep looked at the wheels you posted (alloys but Wire look) and look nice, but hefty price tag, similar to the wheels you had imported?

Just don't fancy the cleaning of those wires and probability of some rust spots coming through. One of the guys at Laon with an e-type said he takes his off to clean and they take 1 hour each.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

Also got to leave some improvements that can be made by the next owner

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. Thats my excuse for most things.

Most mistakes ive made in the past that is.

Thing is you've gone to all that trouble to add 60's detailing....it's a small step! Richard does the hub adaptors....

Next owner? Selling?

nice ound:

Wires would be the finishing touch.
Orsen does the hub adapters.
I don't have any problems keeping the wires clean. I have a retractable hose in the front of the garage, after a good run I just give the wheels a quick rinse, takes a couple of minutes and no effort.Evry now and a gain I use snow foam on them, again takes a few minutes and no effort. I put the hose in for my motorcycles as I really can't be bothered cleaning them, giving them a rinse after use means I only give them a proper clean every couple of years.

agreed that wires would complete what is an excellent looking machine.

the calibres certainly look the part in the meantime though.

good new set of pics by the way

Dave

I agree, I was reading over the wheel evolution yesterday. There is quite a price hike for the "authentic" look. Unless you go the route of painted second hand wires, in which case, infrequent cleaning may be an enhancement.