What have you done today

[Chuffer]

Better get your skates on then Mr Chuffer

Strapping them on as we speak !

 

[Chuffer]

Had a great day at the annual Daventry MotorFest today and fabulous very warm sunny weather all day for third year on the trot . The venue is a public park in the centre of town and always has a good turn out of interesting cars and lots of attention from the public as access is free for them . Two other Corvettes were there , a big block C3 and a very smart black C5 . Both CCCUK members . LDV was popular with Joe Public and plenty of kids had happy smiling faces having there photos taken sitting in the drivers seat. My grandson payed a visit with his girlfriend who lives in Daventry and she was soooooo in love with the Vette and and sitting in it for selfies and photo calls . I am promised to take for a blast in one day ! No shortage of Mustangs there but a few rarer Yanks such as a 1991/92 Chevy Caprice police car and a Chevy El Camino with a detachable flatbed hard top . The three Scorpion light tanks all arrived by road and must have been quite a sight on the public roads . They probably stopped at every petrol station en route !!

 

[Nassau65]

The 66 coupe looks nice, especially with the 67 stinger hood on. A nice touch re it being a 66 was to refit the hood badge
The 67 big block stinger hood really is a lovely design and looks great on any year mid year.

 

[Nassau65]

The last of the Chevrolet caprices really were lovely BIG American cars. So smooth and comfortable. Drove one back from Massachusetts to Florida, so smooth and comfortable with seats like your sofa’s armchair. Not too bad on fuel either.

 

[Chuffer]

The 66 coupe looks nice, especially with the 67 stinger hood on. A nice touch re it being a 66 was to refit the hood badge
The 67 big block stinger hood really is a lovely design and looks great on any year mid year.

Totally agree . It`s long standing club member Roger Thornton`s car . Looks and sounds fabulous .

 

[Chuffer]

General Motors 1980 meets London North Western Railway 1862 . Revisited the Milton Keynes Museum today having been so impressed during an all too brief visit on National Classic Car Drive It Day last month . Needless to say there are plenty of railway artifacts to keep me entertained with the worlds first Railway Locomotive and Carriage works having been just down the road at Wolverton . But never imagined that Stony Stratford now part of greater Milton Keynes had a boat building yard seeing as how it`s as far from the sea as you can get in the UK ! They built tug boats that were shipped all around the world . Lots of archeology too , found in the local area .
There is a well stocked hall dedicated to transport with all exhibits having local connections from vintage trams and cars and commercial vans to Sinclair C5`s . It was also a living history weekend with demonstrations and re enactments from the stone age with flint napping to Bronze Age smelting and casting spear and axe heads right through to the Roman occupation era , the Norman conquest and the English Civil war . Plus a group of admirers around the Corvette taking photos when we got back to the car park ! Well worth a visit if you are in the area .

 

[Chuffer]

Early start today for another day in the BIG TOYS BOX and another step closure to `D Day` ( aka deadline for diesel day next Friday ) . Up at 6.30 am , on the motorway by 7.30 am and signing on for duty at Loughborough Loco Shed at 8.45 am . All quite on shed this morning steam wise with these two black beauties basking silently in the morning sun .
Meanwhile in the workshops the days task was to paint the cab control panels in black gloss including carefully painting the drivers side gauge bezels with a fine tipped artists brush . The various brake controls on both the drivers side and second mans side of the cab were then treated to a coat of light grey gloss , all colours and details prototypical of when the D6535 was built in 1961 . Note the `dead mans ` treddle on both sides which automatically apply the brakes if not constantly depressed .The bodywork is now completed in British Railways diesel era blue gloss and the Hi Vis yellow cab ends have received their final gloss coat . The north facing cab end has had its windows refitted with new rubber seals and the south facing end is awaiting its windows and seals to be fitted in the next few days . All in all it is now looking very spiffy !

 

[James Vette]

PLEASE

 

[Nassau65]

Some of those 70’s and 80’s custom car paint jobs were fabulous. Absolutely works of art. The cost must have run into

 

[Chuffer]

Takes me back to the days of Custom Car Magazine which was THE go to mag back in the day !

 

[Nassau65]

Geoff Ridgeway and Ray Mumford were the kings of the UK airbrush scene

 

[Nassau65]

Had a friend who did it part time called Alan Lay. Printer by trade but very skilled with an airbrush. Did a couple of cars for me round 77/78.
Done a few of Andy Kay’s cars ( A K windscreens) very talented guy. Pretty cheap to, as it was his hobby.

 

[Nassau65]

Our neighbour/friend the late Barry Sturgess, a fantastic painter had G-Force the 1969 or 1970 428 cobra Jet mustang.
John Jemmett had a few, anybody remember his mustang “ heartbreaker” or his challenger “ the artful Dodger”
Many fond memories coming back now.

 

[Nassau65]

Takes me back to the days of Custom Car Magazine which was THE go to mag back in the day !

A add from custom car.
Nice selection of side pipes
I Always fitted the “outsiders” as they looked like factory 1969 corvette pipes.

 

[Chuffer]

Our neighbour/friend the late Barry Sturgess, a fantastic painter had G-Force the 1969 or 1970 428 cobra Jet mustang.
John Jemmett had a few, anybody remember his mustang “ heartbreaker” or his challenger “ the artful Dodger”
Many fond memories coming back now.

Heartbreaker rings a bell from the dim and distant past .

 

[Nassau65]

Heartbreaker rings a bell from the dim and distant past .

The other “famous” mustang was “French connection”

 

[Nassau65]

Found a couple of old pics from the net of French connection. Painted by Ray Mumford.

 

[Chuffer]

The other “famous” mustang was “French connection”

A damned good movie too !

 

[Chevrolet]

A add from custom car.
Nice selection of side pipes
I Always fitted the “outsiders” as they looked like factory 1969 corvette pipes.

The (in)famous "Thrush" sidepipes. Carriage on one pipe £1.00, on two £1.50. Those were the days!

 

[Nassau65]

Used to get mine from Ripspeed ( Keith Rip) in Edmonton N9. He was well stocked with wolfrace, appliance, ally cat ( all wheels) Thrush outsiders and General Grabber tyres. All the bolt on chrome accessories you could shake a stick at, and all the prismatic tape and decals you could wish for.
Those were the days.