See the full gallery on Posterous The summer of ’87 fizzled into Autumn just in time to see ‘Betty’ hit the tracks… My love affair with engines had started in conjunction with the embryonic development of my worst traits – an inability to adhere to timelines, an incapability to say ‘no‘ all healthily furnished with a lifelong [...]

See the full gallery on Posterous Now time for the body work… Sticking with tradition, used lots of Hammerite, polyfilla, jenolite and any other carcinogenic material I could find to fill the holes. The beast was really starting to take shape   Stage 1 – Dissassembly Stage 2 – The Engine, suspension and wheels Stage [...]

See the full gallery on Posterous Following the initial ‘hijacking’ of the garage…it was time to get serious and find an engine! I decided to use the full power of a redundant Triumph vitesse engine (with a minor rebore…) but first I had to make it look pretty, it’s Hammerite Time. Then to the leaf-spring [...]

See the full gallery on Posterous It was the summer of 1987… A run down Triumph Herald 13/60 sat rusting in a neighbours backyard – just waiting for some love, care and attention (and an engine).  Without any prior knowledge of cars or engines, I started to take the car apart…bit by bit. Much to [...]