Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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Mar 23, 2019 15:21:31 GMT
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Well. It’s been a while. Since photobucket ruined the internet I haven’t really had time for build threads. Too labour intensive for the time I have spare. Couple that with multiple projects and it all gets quite messy quite quickly. This is gunna be more quick blog type entries done by sharing from Instagram of what goes on at my workshop, rather than full on stuff like I’ve done previously. Mostly cos its all I have the time and resources to do. I’m gunna start about this time last year. Something fairly major happened. My workshop burned down. It was an accident, not my fault, started in another unit. I had insurance but there was so many conditions and provisos I ended up never claiming given the amount I’d get vs. what the record of a claim on file would do to any further insurance costs. All a bit curse word but there you go, insurance companies are curse word. I only actually fully lost two cars, a Lada riva estate and a 100e. Everything else was only partially damaged or I just lost a lot of parts for. Most tooling and equipment was lost as well. http://instagram.com/p/Bf-YDPrnHKM Lots of things got quite damaged. My model A was quite badly hit. http://instagram.com/p/BgOOXF6FQbs http://instagram.com/p/BgRvZrqF_5A http://instagram.com/p/BgZdAqzlDFt http://instagram.com/p/Bgj4GXhFlFg
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Last Edit: Apr 12, 2019 22:01:56 GMT by Dez
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,710
Club RR Member Number: 34
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Mar 23, 2019 15:30:40 GMT
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,710
Club RR Member Number: 34
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Mar 23, 2019 15:39:47 GMT
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,710
Club RR Member Number: 34
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Mar 23, 2019 15:50:46 GMT
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,710
Club RR Member Number: 34
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Mar 23, 2019 15:58:37 GMT
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,710
Club RR Member Number: 34
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Mar 23, 2019 16:07:37 GMT
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melle
South West
It'll come out in the wash.
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Mar 23, 2019 16:14:06 GMT
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Good to see you back on here!
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www.saabv4.com'70 Saab 96 V4 "The Devil's Own V4" '77 Saab 95 V4 van conversion project '88 Saab 900i 8V
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Mar 23, 2019 16:21:06 GMT
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Fantastic to see Dez - glad things are now approaching normality again.
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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Club RR Member Number: 34
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Mar 23, 2019 16:31:35 GMT
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,710
Club RR Member Number: 34
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Mar 23, 2019 16:44:33 GMT
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Last Edit: Mar 23, 2019 16:51:30 GMT by Dez
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Mar 23, 2019 17:23:20 GMT
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As said above, great to see you back and posting!
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,710
Club RR Member Number: 34
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Mar 23, 2019 17:49:17 GMT
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Tazzy
Part of things
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Mar 23, 2019 17:59:44 GMT
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sweet!
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keyring
Part of things
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Mar 23, 2019 22:08:02 GMT
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Glad to hear everything is getting back to how it was for you! I always love seeing updates from the page
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Mar 23, 2019 23:34:54 GMT
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Been enjoying the insta posts but its awesome to see you back here Dez!
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brc76
RR Helper
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Good to see you back too!
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Good to see all your workshop woes firmly behind you. Nice homemade tucking fork,( and for those not in the know,that's not a euphemism for anything else,it's a sheetmetal tool....😂😂)
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
Posts: 11,710
Club RR Member Number: 34
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Things are a long way off being 100% sorted, I’ve got a huge list of things i still want/need to do to make the workshop exactly how I want it to be, but things are at least workable and the rest can be done bit by bit as and when time and funds allow.
Anyone with an all-metal workshop will appreciate the issues they have, but luckily the old building framework being designed for glasshouses originally does help quite a bit. 95% of the condensation I get drains straight back out into the gutters on the inside of the roof. I only get minor drippage 😂 There has been some water ingress issues with all the heavy rain we’ve had recently, but the leaks are getting sorted bit by bit too.
My outside storage is now attached to the building which it wasn’t previously, so there’s plans to make it into a full compound and maybe even partially concrete and cover it too, giving me even more space, as this has filled up pretty quick!
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ZXRob
Europe
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Mar 24, 2019 10:00:44 GMT
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Always enjoy your work Dez. Probably the most creative car builder on our side of the pond! And a punk rocker to boot! In for this ride!
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Mar 24, 2019 12:37:56 GMT
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Read this with pleasure. Good to see the recovery.
Bookmarked, obviously.
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