Last week there was no blog as we were at the Enfield Pageant of Motoring our local show. In the couple of days we were there was some confusion around who was delegated to taking the photos of the show. This only came to light when we were preparing this post and asked for the pics – as a result we have none of this show, which is a bit of a balls up to say the least. We are putting it down to the fact that we had a great time in the nice weather, no rain for a change and we had lots of people to talking with us. We had some customers showing their cars with us, our cars and some new visitors that came to see us. We even had a couple of people trying to buy cars of us at the show. So a big thanks to everybody who stopped by and said hello.

It looks like that the Enfield Pageant in that location could be the last one after 44 years. Thanks to the London mayor Sadiq Khan, Sad D!ck Can’t has decided he wants to expand the ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone) as far out to Enfield and more. So the revenue that the massively popular show brings in to the community will be lost from that location. Who will want to pay £12.50 just to drive to the show, then pay another £5 to enter with their car? Even worse if you turn up with four adults in a car for a day out, that’s £10 each + the £12.50 which will probably be more next year anyway. All of a sudden it becomes an expensive day out. The ULEZ is being expanded to cover pretty much all inside the M25.

The initial reason for the ULEZ is that the air pollution is bad from vehicles. We suspect that more people are dying everyday due to knife crime, drugs, gang killings or grooming gangs than there are people dying from car emissions. Perhaps Sad D!ck should concentrate on sorting out his out of hand crime wave, and leave the cash cow motorist alone. We would be interested to see what you guys think about the ULEZ and it’s proposed expansion is effectively killing of car shows. Would you go if you had to pay the extra charges? It goes up all the time, where does the money actually go? We are seriously thinking will it be worth it going forward. Perhaps we should get a big car transporter, wedge as many cars on there as we can and pay once.

Park & Pic

‘The Onion’ was back with us Saturday morning, just to pop in and say hello and have a cup of tea with us. She’s still looking and sounding as good as ever. We asked the owner about his FiTech as he has had it for a fair while now. He said “All the thousands of miles I have done so far, it hasn’t missed a beat. One of the best upgrades I have put on it.” Our thoughts on these kits is exactly same, they are getting better as the software matures and they self learns over time.

Customer Cars

The ’67 is having the back end stripped away and looks like we have found some good metal. The car has been in the UK since it was new, so it has been exposed to some rather harsh elements over the years in the UK.

The rear chassis rails are good, but the drop off metal wasn’t. We will treat all the surfaces with red oxide as we usually do to prevent rust worm going forward.

So now we have a good idea of the starting point, we just need to tidy up before we start to put the metal back together again.

The irony of this picture?

We have literally swept many cars up this way, and this certainly won’t be the last. Some of the metal was in a pretty bad way.

Adam took a quick video clip of the thin tin, noting that ‘That’s gone a bit thin then, looks like we might need a new panel!’

With a lot of new sheet metal being required we delved into our own little stock pile.

Stay Safe & Take Care!