British Red Sportscar

This is a list of all the vehicles I have owned…cars, vans, motorbikes….
I wish I had kept some of them!!!

1956 Ford Prefect 100E
1959 850 Mini
Series 1 Frogeye (bought to restore but never driven)
1938 Morgan 4-4 (barn find, was restoring it, but moved it on: Brother in Law has it)
MGB
Ford Escort Mk2
Riley Elf
Mini van
Mini 1275 GT
Metro
Landie
Rascal Van
Shogun
Landie
Morgan 4/4…Still have, 123,000 miles on clock)
Ford Escort Mk3
Fiesta
Landie…(barn, or rather yard find, rebuilt it, still use it often, 103,000 miles on clock)
Vauxhall Cavalier
Vauxhall Cavalier
Vauxhall Cavalier
Ford Focus
Peugot 3087
Skoda Fabia (Current Eurobox tin top)

Lambretta LD125
Honda CB250
Honda XL125
Vespa
Raleigh Wisp
VeloSolex (still have, but it isn’t (yet) registered)
Ride-on lawnmower

Incorporating a Really Useful Shelf!

Readers here will know I ‘play’ for a day each week at a worklshop where we restore steam locos. One of our team publishes a newsletter each week, but as we are all on lockdown, he is scratting around for material to put on the newsletter….here is this week’s edition… enjoy it…if you can!!!
Issue 212 2020-04-07

Hello!
First, thanks for visiting my website. I would be very grateful if you would let me know when, and maybe how often, you look at it, or indeed, if you have any comments.
Please e mail me:- richard(AT)british-red-sportscar.co.uk
Cheers!

A Bondic Welder! Using a liquid glue which is hardened by the UV light. Apparantly it will bond just about everything! Here, it welded the elephant’s ear back on. Last week, it helped mend an allen key that locks our windows.. Reight good!

Sometimes, and it is scary, walking along the old Unstone Line, which was very busy in its day, moving coal and coke around….as you walk along, you sometimes hear what sounds like a train going by…Scary, or what?

A footpath turns right, and takes you under the viaduct to the side of the Mighty River Drone

and then back home.

With this nice weather, and a clear diary, we are spending lots of time in the garden. The raised bed was filling up niceley…but we had some shallots to plant…
This is a great use for a big plastic basket…lined with the mesh that doesn’t allow weeds (or worms) through…success!

yesterday at the Railway Engine workshop, one of my jobs was polishing a pair of piston oilers from the loco that used to work at the Penryn slate quarry, today with the Bottling Squad at Drone Valley Brewery, my job was to pperate the Crown Corker!

Just had the Mog’s annual MOT, and to my horror, realised it had done only 2600 miles since the last one! Fair enough, it was off the road for a few weeks while I was having the back axle rebuilt, the other excuse being the volume of rain we have had since about August. I don’t mind using the Mog in the rain, but don’t like putting a soaking wet Mog back in the garage… This morning, I have replaced an exhaust bracket, and gobboed another joint, then took it for a nice drive around the local villages.