23 Feb 2008
NEVER buy a car via the internet without checking it yourself! Stupid as I am I trusted the seller and his pictures. I got badly cheated. The first image shows the left side of the van "in perfect condition", the second one is the reality from the inside.
The seller said he had to sell his beloved van to pay for his house, but he sold at least 3 more "restored" vans since I bought this one...
Weird
The previous owner in France had his own understanding of a proper restoration. He filled the frame with some weird hard plastic and added steel rods as reinforcement....! Great, so if the car is ever in danger of breaking into two parts the rods prevent it from doing so...Very nice, and a lot of fun to get rid of it...!
11 Feb 2008
Belts have arrived
My dear colleague Paul brought back some belts for me from the States. He left on Friday night for a stag weekend and was back in the office in London on Monday morning...Good man!
Note the logo on the belts, Simpson do not produce these belts with logos anymore...You have to be very persuasive to get some like these...