Sunday 24 February 2013

Morris 8 Brakes






Delage Progress






Quick Sketches


Mephistopheles

Another quick sketch, completely copied I'm afraid. The real, proper one is by Roy Putt www.historiccarart.net

"Bryony Skooter"


I love this photo, the dark line is the wall down to the beach. and behind you can see the beach huts whizzing by! Oh and she is fifty something!

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Jay Leno's Garage: 1906 Stanley Steamer Vanderbilt Cup Racer



Even if you don't have time to watch this incredible car through have a look at 16min in and turn up the speakers!

Monday 4 February 2013

Sunday 3 February 2013

Quick Sketches




Delage Progress


Drum corroded in storage.


As a note for future reference, I regularly use a phosphating primer of military origin called Suncorite. Many years ago a company I was working for used an old portion of Bentley chassis and applied many different paint products to sections of the chassis that had been prepared in different ways. The chassis was then placed on the roof next to the tea room window, exposed to all weather. Amongst all of the decaying  paints, Suncorite retained it's satin black finish with barely any deterioration, that was over a decade ago! As well as the ability to endure weather the product also has a reasonably high temperature resistance and is ideal for a subtle, almost "oil blacked" finish to nuts and bolts.







Prior to strip



Some cosmetic preparation, retaining a little "Patina"







The pictures below show an innovative little "creatures" larder!







Gearbox awaiting attention.