Our regular readers will know that we have moved location to our custom built offices further round the yard. This was to make it easier for customer parking, stock intake and dispatching of our customer’s orders. During this monumental task of relocating some significant heavy items or ‘stock’, Adam has ‘found’ more parts that which he can now get to. He has some ideas that he can only now put into place now that they are accessible. These ‘parts’ as Adam has been referring to them is his huge stock of engines, gearboxes and axles.

The Old:

Some parts, have been put into their storage locations and some parts are on racking. There is a method to the madness believe it or not. The first steps is to get all these parts into one area, then we can sort them out on properly at some point in the near future.

Adam’s plan is to take these old engines apart, get them reconditioned and store them properly. Blocks, heads, cranks, cams, pistons etc. date coded and logged. Some of these engines are highly sought after just for their rarity. Things like this inline 6 with triple single barrel carbs setup.

A few of the engines have been pulled out ready for reconditioning/restoration and ready to go to our engineers for a full overhaul. These particular ones will come back to us for stock as parts and not a complete engines.

Other engines are element secured storage in their own individual containers, these will be put into storage containers now we can get to them.

The rest of these ‘parts’ are now stored with some like new restored examples. The process for restoring and reconditioning of these engines and gearboxes will be ongoing and not a high priority, just yet. The logic behind it? We asked Adam what the plans were for these engines and gearboxes, his response was “Second hand parts – nah, we ain’t got none!” However, although they are not for sale, if your wallets are deep enough and you desperately want something, then it could be yours, everything has a price. Time wasters need not apply and try to negotiate.

The New:

A good customer of ours has bought himself a new vehicle which has come into us for a little Mustang Maniac Magic to be bestowed upon it.

This Falcon has been resprayed by us and needs fettling to iron out some little niggles. One of the challenges put to us by the owner is that he wants some LED rear lights. The problem is there is no such commercially available. We have been been ordering many variations of LED bulbs for size, fittings and LED configurations. We have then done some ingenious things with them to make them, a) fit in the stock housing and b) make them work.

Mark has been bench testing the configuration and made some rather clever progress. We have a video here if the LEDs being tested manually with bespoke circuits and then later on in the video integration with stock flasher units. We still need to add bespoke circuitry to make the brightness of the bulbs where they should be and a then create a neat package that fits with the stock look for these lamps.

We have created many bespoke options for our customers and this is another example of our willingness to help out where we can, and Mark likes the challenge. (This video has no sound). You never know we make them available as a parts option if it’s viable in the future.

The reason for this request is that the indicators are aftermarket and mounted low down under the bumper, arrowed. This isn’t the worst solution that we have seen, and won’t be the last work around for our UK laws.

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We have a new solution to store our stock of transmission lines to stop them being damaged. So simple why didn’t we think of it before? Hang them up.

Posting them out is a real problem as they can be bent or crushed. Something we can’t control that once it leaves our stores, but we try our very best to protect them.

Stay Safe & Take Care!