George's Cars

I had a lot of plans all lined up nicely for the weekend. Saturday I was going to spend the day in the garage working on the buggy and Sunday I was going to Limerick to a car show in support of Milford Hospice

So what happened, everything. Woke up Saturday morning feeling like shit, barely enough energy to get dressed let alone work on the car, so Saturday’s plans went out the window.

Sunday – well Monday (today) is Alma’s birthday so I was going to bring Evin away for the day (Sunday) to give Alma some time to herself, problem was the weather was pissy and it wasn’t fair to Evin to have him sitting in cars at a show all afternoon. If it was fine he could run and play but with it raining he would have no place to play. The joys of being a daddy.

I did get some cleaning done in the garage Friday night, sorry phone pics but at least now I have the space I need to start the buggy.

This is similar to the colour red i want. Something deep and bright!!

These are all the parts I’m starting with:

14″ Alloy Windscreen with glass. Glass was a bonus, I wasn’t expecting that.

Some pretty stuff and braided brake hoses

Monza 4-tip exhaust

Fan Shoud

The Main Attraction

Its not staying blue. It will be red when its finished

You can just about see the shortened chassis underneat the body. The body is not bolted down just layed up there to I can get a picture of what needs to be done

This will be the gearbox. Lets hope its a good one!

Well the trip was designed to be a nice easy going trip. Normally when I do UK runs it ends up a mad rush everywhere.

I borrowed a van from John Sheehan,a nice 2005 Fiat Ducato (very very nice van to drive), we left Galway at 4:00 am and headed for Dublin Port. No dramas on the trip over and I even managed to convince Dad that the GPS was a good thing.

We stopped at machine7 on the way to Daventry to collect a few bits for the buggy and arrived in Daventry at my aunt Carmel’s at 18:00, enough time for a few drinks before dinner.

Unfortunately over night we got some very bad news, my Grandmother, Beaso passed away during the night. She was quite ill and we had been expecting it for a while but it was still unexpected. She had been doing well, she was even making poppy cakes the day before. That night they wanted her to go back to hospital and she didn’t want to, I guess she got her wish, she didn’t go to hospital but instead died overnight in her own bed.

Anyways, so much for the relaxed trip, I rang Sean the guy I was buying the buggy off and to be fair, he took the morning off work so that we could collect the buggy early. We got the buggy into the van, I didn’t even look at half the stuff, paid the man and we where off.

Next stop was Mel Hubbard’s, i had ordered side pods for the buggy off him but unfortunately he didn’t get a chance to make them due to a family commitment he had. But being the buggy guy he sold me a set of purple metalflake ones he had lying around. It doesn’t bother me, I’ll be painting them anyways.

One last stop before we could head for the Ferry. Flatlands Engineering here we come. I wanted to get some of the more difficult things from Flatlands, they have a good reputation and the stuff looks well make. Unfortunately funds won’t allow me to buy everything I wanted but I got the essentials. I also got the opportunity to see some of the buggies they have built and get some ideas for my own.

Very Nice!!

After that is was a run to the ferry, overnight on the ferry and back to Galway the following morning. After a few hours sleep it was down to Ennis to see Nannie Curley in the funeral home.