Contacted the transport company that is to bring my recently purchased Ascort from West Australia. The car is now loaded on a car trailer ready to be towed to the transport co. Hopefully it may be home in another week or so. :d
Organised for more 5mm stainless steel to be profile cut to make a rear emblem for the new Ascort. I had several cut previously and made an emblem for my current car .... but gave all my spares to other Ascort owners. Now I have to be pay for more. :cry: One of these days I will learn not to give away so many things for free.
(There are pics of the previous emblem in the Other Coachbuilt section in posts greater than 6 months old)
Checked on the front emblems that are being cast in stainless steel from my hand crafted replica. They are still weeks away as the company doing the work is setting up new plant in a new workshop.
Down to the local machine shop to pick up some brass to make new fittings for the fuel tank repairs.
Home for lunch to find that my instruments are back from restoration. These include a 100mph trip speedo, low light ghia tacho, motometer 3 in one, and VDO oil gauge. (The other gauges are a Smiths vac and a Motometer 60mm clock. These were not restored) The restored gauges look pretty good with new face on the motometer etc, but the restorer (who is supposed to be one of the best here) has put non standard needle on tacho and coloured the VDO oil gauge needle red. :omg: Not happy about that. :thumbdn:
All this squeezed into a standard work day. A rather Ascort sort of day. :thumbup:
Mark - Owner of 2 under restoration Australian coachbuilt Ascorts.