Site News

February 27th - updated the shows list for 2007

January 16th - Added some more parts for sale, and a few links

December 5th - Added another show and some more parts for sale

November 27th - Added some shows for 2007

November 5th - new site launched

This is the archive of news items that have been taken off the main site home page

What's going on in Nantwich?

Well, for some reason there's an abrupt change in Nantwich on a Saturday night. For the last few weeks, the town has been much busier than of late, queueing to get in pubs that are normally half empty, only thing is, I can't for the life of me see what's different. The prices haven't all dropped, the atmosphere is no better, the carpets are still sticky. Only thing is, it's now harder to get served in a reasonable time. Oh well.

Moving...

On visiting the lock-up garage to collect the Firenza for Tatton Park classic car show, I was alarmed to learn that the owners had applied for planning permission to replace my garages with a block of terraced houses. It would have been nice if they'd mentioned it, what with me being a tenant for about twenty years and all, but they chose not to. So the search was on for somewhere to move the two cars and twenty year collection of spare parts. Luckily a friend put me onto a local farmer who had some space available, and over a two-day period at the end of September I moved the whole lot into a much larger space and vacated the garages. It brought home to me just how much stuff I have, a lot of it redundant (just how many spare bell-housings can one person need?), hence the For Sale page on this new design of the site. I am determined the stocks will be reduced and as I sort through things, spare bits will be listed here. If you're in the market for spares for a Vauxhall Viva, Magnum or Firenza, keep an eye on the For Sale page.

End of the classic car show season

With the popular show at Cholmondeley Castle in September, my classic car show seasion is over for another year. It seems like only a few weeks since I was preparing the car for its annual MOT test, and now it's back in the garage for winter again.