Was a cracking summer….. did loads Triumph miles…..  Totally rubbish more recently for sure, so driving more modern/waterproof stuff.

Doesn’t seem to fit typical scam pattern…. £400 isn’t very ambitious  for someone driving around in a brand new car. Possibly his life really is that chaotic, especially if his wife has actually just died. 

Hi, i need a spot of advice about what to do ( get in touch with the police etc ). The story starts on wensday the 10 december, a guy who has been to the house several times in the past to talk to me about how i am getting on with the cars ( claims he has a spray booth that i can use if I want ), knocks on the door asks to speak to me. It turns out he has a friend who has been doing up a MACH 1 mustang ( same as I have ) and has some spare parts he wants to sell. He makes a phone call to his friend in front of me and we agree on a price of £400 for the parts, he initialy tells me he only wants £150 and he would cover the rest and I can sort out the balance when he brings the bits back to me. He goes off and then comes back a while later and tells me he has not got the cash and needs the rest, the mug i am, i give the balance to him. This where it gets strange, I have his first name ( he showed me his driving licence but the mug i am was not wearing my glasses, so I cannot tell his last name ), I have him recorded on 4 seperate security cameras, I have his car reg ( a new jeep first reg the begining of this month and it is legit ), I have his phone number which is still live and he answers it. The first day he did not get the parts to me was becase he thought that the parts were removed from the car but they was still in the car so he did not have time to finish taking them out and delivering the parts to me ( so he said ). The next two days was because M25 was jammed up and he did not time to borrow his works van and get it back ( so he said ) I checked this and it was jammed up as he said. The next twist was that he was claiming that his wife had suddenly passed away ( friday night ) so he would not be able to sort my stuff out till monday at the earlest, then on monday he had the cheek to phone up and ask if I could lend him some money so he could get some fuel as he had to go and see his daughter in surrey, I told him no as I did not have any more cash ( plus this sounded very fishy ), he then preceeded to tell me one of the other drivers would deliver the stuff to me while he was away ( monday and tuesday ), it still did not get delivered. Wednesday he contacts me apolegising for not getting the parts to me and say's he will get the parts to me that night, nothing turns up, this morning he messages me again totaly apolagising for letting me down and will deffinetly get me the parts by 5 oclock, guess what no parts again. what truly is puzzeling me is if he has scammed me out of the £400 why is he keeping in contact and not just ghosted me, he knows he is not getting any more cash out of me, it could be he really is that scatterbrained. Anyway any advice would be appreciated. Karl.

wait till the spring, everything feels better as spring arrives and summer is near. Its been a hard wet winter so far......  

Fear not, dear readers! Progress is being made. The old tailgate is off and being stripped of the lock, latches etc. It was very rusty and was mostly held together by the glass. Hope to get the new one on at the weekend, then the Rangie can go out in the cold. Next job is the Caterham's new engine, then the big Motorhaus's wooden frame. i think retirement would speed up this process, but the mortgage is still needing my attention (although it is getting smaller quite rapidly)

Another relentlessly wet year - I’m done, had enough, giving up. Had the beast 22 years now, time to move on. Market seems down on its derriere, lots of others seem to be getting out too. Hardly ever see any old classics out now, roads are bad enough in a big Volvo SUV, and even that just lost a rear drive shaft on my local sub 3rd world roads.        

Tomorrow I'll try to post a picture of one of the viaducts in Harefiled Middlesex It really is quite stunning. Bring on the sunshine Ro

HS2... the engineering is superb. Just a pity about the politics. But just like Sizewell it also shows just how much more you can make projects cost with all the stop-start and peripheral buggering about. Nevertheless, it's about bloody time this country built a new railway  

I went for an AEM one on the basis that the sensor itself was more robust. It plays nicely with the Speeduino and between the cold starts, fuelling issues, and oil burning my engine experiences I figured I'd give myself the best chance that I wouldn't immediately kill it!

Thanks for the pointers guys... hopefully Santa can sort one out for me! 😉