Progress on one front

I spent the day on admin and getting the cars sorted out from my desk.

Half way through the morning the garage phoned to say they had solved the E-type charging mystery - the fan was drawing power from the wrong side of the ammeter so when running it showed a charge - not a discharge - but all the charging etc. tested fine and it had not overloaded the battery. Hopefully that is that. We'll see.

I also spoke to John Polson who thought I'd make 44 miles on two batteries - so I'll take it in Friday afternoon. First big bill on the way.

I also made contact with the other Ulster owner - he had less info than I did so I sent him mine - but he seems to know much more about pre-wars cars (Alvis and Sunbeam).

Then a MK7 ride to Stutton followed by me taking it to Harkstead.

Finally, after the gloom of assessing a diminished fleet I thought we needed to flip it. So here we go:

Ferrari - in good hands and in progress 
Alpine - nearing the end of the work 
E-type - fault identified and being corrected
Talbot - problem identified and booked it in to Polson
MK2 Golf - known problem with work around but need to book it in 

Standing back I have also executed the new plan too. We now have two pairs of iconic cars - plus outliers. 

Firstly the pre-war pair - a Sports car and Coupe and then the 1960’s classics - a Sports car and Coupe. Interestingly both sets feature 4 and 6 cylinder cars.

So stop being so down I thought to myself - and rejoice in a better day than I was expecting.