I must admit that I am pretty gutted today has eventually arrived

 

 

I always had a soft spot for my old LWB TT and I'd worked bloody hard getting it almost to where I wanted it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

then I made the fatal error of entrusting the old girl with a bunch of fookin' cowboys and that unfortunately was the beginning of the end :no:

 

 

 

after several failed attempts at making the best of a bad situation, the other month I finally had to face the sad reality that the old girl had smoked her last tyre

 

 

 

so last Friday I recieved a phonecall from the Long Haired General (the wife) saying that somebody had knocked on the door and asked if we would sell the shell

 

 

for a second I hoped that somebody was willing to take it on as a long term project but alas no....they wanted it for scrap value

 

 

cue this morning.......

 

 

 

 

 

I answer a knock at the door expecting to be met with scrapyard crew with either a low loader or a trailer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nope!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

that would be a young lad in his mid 20's who suffers severe anxiety attacks (no seriously!!!)

 

 

and an 85 year old man wearing a shirt and tie :blink:

 

 

 

and in the background......a transit van (and not even a big transit van!!)

 

 

 

 

 

here begins the Laurel and Hardy act for the next 7 hours......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me: "I'm telling you mate, it won't fit"

 

Old boy: "trust me"

 

 

 

 

 

Old boy: "Maybe a sledge hammer on the rear quarters will sort it..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old boy: "It won't fit?"

 

 

Me: *Face Palm*

 

 

Time for the big guns!!

 

 

 

 

 

To get it to this stage literally required Laurel and Hardy to break every possible health and safety rule in the book...we're talking village idiot stylee sawing of branch that he's sat on and coming very, very close to cutting through the angle grinder cable on countless ocassions

 

Me: "Would you like some eye protection and some ear defence?"

 

 

Old boy: *Looking at me as if I'm strange "No"

 

 

Me: "Right you are....I'll be back in a minute, I'm just going to grab a carrier bag to put your fingers in once you've cut them off!"

 

 

*Meanwhile young lad is hiding in the cab having another anxiety attack because (his explaination) he'd had a bad experience with an angle grinder before...

Edited April 30, 201213 yr by jap.slapper

Yes mate, no probs

 

I'll get some pics together in the next few weeks after the decals have been fitted

 

Any chance you could take a few for me while they are still white :)

crazy!!!! you could have sold that prop to tudor :whistling:

 

It wasn't an NA LWB Manual was it? :( :(

It wasn't an NA LWB Manual was it? :( :(

 

 

no mate, it was a LWB TT

Any chance you could take a few for me while they are still white :)

 

it'll ahve to be a camera phone pic....one of them is grey primered now, the other is still white

thats sound whatever you can do mate. even the grey one will be fine :)