Back in black. And red.

New bits on, some Scally style bodging and some inspired late night vandalism. Should probably start looking at the mechanicals soon. Now that the our Scally Wagon looks like a car again, we need to get it going and stopping. And get those warning lights on the dash to stop blinking.

With the bumper off we soon realised we needed a few bits and pieces to give the next bumper somewhere to bolt on to. And to make the headlights and indicators fit. And to make the bonnet close. With a lot of hammering, pulling with chains, 'correcting' with a sliding hammer and jamming a bottle jack into some awkward crevices, we were able to refit the bumper brackets

only to find our new bumper needed as much correction as the car!

Hammertime

We stopped in a scrapyard on the way home where we had set aside a bumper, headlights and bonnet. Before we took the car off the trailer we stripped off the most badly damaged parts and swapped the bonnets to keep the engine dry. The next morning the car looked worse than when we bought it...

The Journey Home

The journey home didn't start well with the nice salvage people insisting on putting our car on our trailer with a forklift. We'll check the exhaust later!

The Nitty Gritty

We still haven't heard the engine running, but took some time to get a closer look and get some beautiful shots of team members Pizza and Wondergra.

The Hard Part

We knew the rules. £100 was our top limit, we wanted the mighty Rover and had accepted that our consolation prize might be a very sorry looking Escort or a worse Fabia. Our brave and fearless Captain stepped up to the plate.

That's it, Want that one!

Fate led us to a salvage auction and there we found her.

Catch-up

Sooo, we haven't been very good about posting, though I'm not sure anyone would have noticed. Time to bring things up to date.