Later that afternoon I started to think logically about what I had done - I'd put a deposit down on a car that was no more than a rolling shell and was 200 miles away, I haven't got round to putting a tow bar on my new car (I have had it over a year, so maybe I will soon... ish) and I hadn't got anywhere to store it.
I like a challenge and as they say on Top Gear... 'How hard can it be?!?'
A few hurried phone calls and emails later, I had arranged a diesel 406 with a tow bar, trade plates (as towing a car with an a frame that has no tax/test is a very grey area in UK law), some space in a friends dad's industrial unit and rental of a 20ft shipping container. Job's a good un.
6am the next saturday we set of on a very long boy's day out. The last time I towed a mini that had been stood any length of time, one of the back brakes decided it was going to bind and get a touch warm (i.e. bellowing smoke everywhere!) which ment an hour in a petrol station stipping of some rather warm shoes! With that in mind, once in London, we spent some time prepping the car for the journey. 11 hours and 400 miles later we got back from a very uneventfull journy with a pretty good clubman saloon as a bonus.
There are some pics here, taken by the then owner.
The only small thing that worries me is that, apparently, the last person to use the car on the road got struck by lightening and died...
My Intention is to restore the shell and have it painted black again. I have a set of 12x5 Cosmic alloys, Group 3 Arches, a nice period black interior and some other GT style toys and trinkits. Hopefully it will be on the road for this years London to Brighton... hopefully.
If I am allowed some time of from the shopping tomorrow (joy of joy's!!), I'll put up some detail on how I have progressed with the car and some pics, basically which bits i've chopped off.
Edited by apbellamy, 29 December 2007 - 04:46 PM.
