Failing to plan is planning to fail.
It is for exactly this reason, combined with the experience of the Landrover project, which although on the road is a long way from finished, that my dear wife has been elected project manager for our latest under taking. This appointment is with my full approval. I relish the idea of being told that I'm not spending enough time in the garage and hence falling behind plan. Also, on a more practical front, being forced to think through the order that I am going to do things and what parts I need in advance should save a lot of time and wasted effort.
This project is not new, however. It's been with me long before I met the project manager. I acquired my 1975 Triumph Spitfire 1500 as a student in 1995. Whilst it could look good, in the right light when it was raining... (as with so many of my cars) there was never any doubt that one day it would need serious work. Every MOT was a bonus and I kept it on the road for the best part of 4 years covering around 40,000 miles in that time.
After it was taken off the road, it was worked on at times with great, often beer fuelled, enthusiasm and at times it went months without any attention at all. Filling my garage with the landrover, in pieces, was the final straw for the Triumph, and work became impossible. Since then it has been in the back of a lorry along with everything else we own, been stashed in a damp car port on the west coast of Norway, been in the back of a lorry again and finally landing here.
So after a long (around 4 Years) break, planning is nearly complete and work has begun in earnest. I hope to present the plan in full detail very shortly and give regular progress reports.
I hope you enjoy the little photo history of the project before the rebirth......
2 comments:
Sounds and looks good. It'll be really great to see it on the road again. Does it still smell of tom cat????? BTW is that Cricklade Avenue in the first photo? If it is I'm sure there is a whole historical significance attached to it. There are I'm sure family photos of a very old Rover JGV 908, a Traveller, a Marina, and possibly a Maestro in the same location. A history of the best and worst of British!!!!
That is in fact, If I remember correctly, Downtown Avenue, outside the Embersons House.
I do know that I have pictures of my first 2 Ford Escorts in Cricklade ave, but not in Electronic Format.
Oh what quality motors they were (given that I never actually got the first one through an MOT.....)
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