Sun.02.04.06. Dave Brown visited the workshop today to finalise how the dashboard could be constructed, suggesting also different techniques of covering the outer edges of the cockpit. The engine side panels are totally rotten and will also have to be freshly made (Oh shite, I am using another motor trade term, ‘fresh’. This phrase is used to describe an older vehicle that is in pristine condition both internally and externally, it has formidable service history as well as provenance: it is said to be ‘out of the box). I am fast metamorphosing into ‘Swiss Tony’.
A Burlington is like a beautiful woman, 27 years together, running sweetly for 10 years but then the make-up begins to fade, the skin blister, the chassis corrodes, the suspension sags and the tyres leak. A complete strip down is necessary followed by hours of welding, tins of body filler, a new drive train but essentially a packet of Viagra could, perhaps, re-kindle the romance for another 27 years.
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