Double feature

Weds.23.02.11. Posed by Ian Stent, there has been more question marks regarding my motives to ‘promote’ the Burlington at Stoneleigh. Do you want to market the car? Just to ‘show off’ the build quality? Are you targeting mainly inside or outside the kit car world? They are all relevant questions that I have already personally answered, but being questioned for the first time by a person within the industry has meant a serious review of the master plan. Constructing my reply modestly I included the following responses, ‘oh it’s the simple build that evolved into the monster’ ‘the design decisions running parallel to the engineering considerations’ ‘the good, bad and very ugly characters encountered on the way’ or, simply ‘a very unique vehicle as well as an extremely compelling story’.

                                                                                                            

Thurs.24.02.11. Astonishingly, Ian suggests that when the car is completely finished he may want to produce a double feature describing in detail the rebirth of a ‘very unique’ vehicle.

So much so that I have since contacted Tim Brown of ‘Gabbat and Brown’ to have the dashboard trim finished properly, Bob of Robsport to quote for new ‘Doli’ springs for the front suspension: the call to Bob came after a conversation with Max of Totally Triumph and John of Paddocks, neither of which could supply the parts but offered the name of ‘Robsport’ as well as the ubiquitous Rimmer Brothers. Listening to Max brought back some history from the past: his forthright opinions, masked with apparent sympathy for the useless amateur again punctuated with his customary edge ‘If you don’t know what you are doing you shouldn’t be doin’ it!