A year in your parking space.

[Jonny69]

So folks what's been going on in your parking spaces in the last year?

One year ago yesterday I appeared to be missing a car, a red Anglia to be precise

Not here:



Not here either:



Or here:



Or in there, but I see someone made themself comfortable there instead ::



Where was it? Ah yes, it was in for some post-resto finishing work at Burnham Autos:



I lost motivation in the project a long time before and decided to spend some savings and get it finished.

A few weeks later I drove it home, MOT'd and ready for me to put finishing touches on it:



I sold the Pop in February to a chap on Retro Rides. After many many engine rebuilds I decided the old lump wasn't up to my level of tuning so I put it back to standard, well, almost standard and as far as I know it's still going strong.



This is it leaving as I actually shed a tear. I'd had a lot of fun in that car and was sad to see it go.

The Anglia looked like that for a few months until I stuck some of the shiny bits back on it, drove it around in all weather, had a lot of fun in the snow and rain and rebuilt the engine for Retro Rides Gathering which was way overdue. Just days before the gathering my engine bay still looked like this, spread round the garage



Then it blew up on the way and, still furious with it, the last time I let it out in the sunlight was here on the side of the M3:



In September I finally got a new job and needed a car to get me out of a stitch so I combined practicality with celebration and brought this home:



And apart from a bit of maintenance spannering that's all I've had to do on this car.

It's been a very quiet year for me, mainly due to lack of work and uncertainty and I fully intend to make a lot more use of 2010. I'm planning to get down and fix the engine in the Anglia, ideal time to do it now it's turned a bit cooler and once that's running I've got a few ideas for the rod