Update on Rescues
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:24 pm
Just so you all know we are still beavering away, and mostly too busy to do updates.
Jeff is currently working on R8 (black turbo auto) which is looking a whole lot better than it did. R1 (early blue ES) still sits on his drive awaiting an ecu from Brinkie, unfortunately it needs a rare one so we have to be patient.
David recently had R6 (the red GT) trailered to him for a few days to sort out a few minor niggles - the new owner is very pleased with it and wanted the work done by someone who knows what they are doing so the Pamper Parlour it was.
Then we took Al's GT to him for a similar list of niggles to be sorted whilst we had a few days in the lovely North Yorkshire moors. The aircon is still not working properly and may have a small leak so it's going back at the end of the month for David and his garage to hopefully get it working between them. Meanwhile, we will be continuing on to Scotland to visit my son, view a white Celeb in need of saving belonging to one member and collect some spares being donated by another.
R4 (white turbo) also paid David a visit and came back with a long list of jobs done. The plan was to get it mot'd so it could drive back but unfortunately the very elderley plugs appear to have been welded in so that's now on the back burner.
Al and I have been busy too, mainly collecting parts. Terry Stone has sadly lost the use of the yard where he stored cars for breaking so before the 480s all got weighed in we collected a whole lot of useful parts. A holiday in Germany enabled us to come back with an order of arch repair panels from Skandix
as well as a pair of virtually rust free doors from a scrapyard in Munich.
There is a Paris blue ES currently on ebay which Edie very kindly went to check over for us. The video she took of the underneath convinced Jeff and David it's well worth saving so we are planning to bid.
We are currently hoping a lovely man with welding skills and a fondness for 480s will be joining the rescue efforts. He only lives about 15 miles from us so it would be great if he could tackle the rusty undersides on some of the queue waiting here, particularly R5 (black manual turbo we couldn't view prior to bidding due to the pandemic). That would nicely take some pressure off Jeff's welder friend who is swamped with projects. Fingers crossed !
Jeff is currently working on R8 (black turbo auto) which is looking a whole lot better than it did. R1 (early blue ES) still sits on his drive awaiting an ecu from Brinkie, unfortunately it needs a rare one so we have to be patient.
David recently had R6 (the red GT) trailered to him for a few days to sort out a few minor niggles - the new owner is very pleased with it and wanted the work done by someone who knows what they are doing so the Pamper Parlour it was.
Then we took Al's GT to him for a similar list of niggles to be sorted whilst we had a few days in the lovely North Yorkshire moors. The aircon is still not working properly and may have a small leak so it's going back at the end of the month for David and his garage to hopefully get it working between them. Meanwhile, we will be continuing on to Scotland to visit my son, view a white Celeb in need of saving belonging to one member and collect some spares being donated by another.
R4 (white turbo) also paid David a visit and came back with a long list of jobs done. The plan was to get it mot'd so it could drive back but unfortunately the very elderley plugs appear to have been welded in so that's now on the back burner.
Al and I have been busy too, mainly collecting parts. Terry Stone has sadly lost the use of the yard where he stored cars for breaking so before the 480s all got weighed in we collected a whole lot of useful parts. A holiday in Germany enabled us to come back with an order of arch repair panels from Skandix
as well as a pair of virtually rust free doors from a scrapyard in Munich.
There is a Paris blue ES currently on ebay which Edie very kindly went to check over for us. The video she took of the underneath convinced Jeff and David it's well worth saving so we are planning to bid.
We are currently hoping a lovely man with welding skills and a fondness for 480s will be joining the rescue efforts. He only lives about 15 miles from us so it would be great if he could tackle the rusty undersides on some of the queue waiting here, particularly R5 (black manual turbo we couldn't view prior to bidding due to the pandemic). That would nicely take some pressure off Jeff's welder friend who is swamped with projects. Fingers crossed !