Our first organ transplant was a success (above)! Daphne’s fascia on the instrument cluster (below, bottom) had lost all four corners to over-tightening of the screws, which I gather they are all in peril of. The donor car’s fascia corners were all intact, although cracked, and the fascia overall in better condition, so with the […]
This donor car is a bona fide Sow’s ear, but tonight – after some inspiration from some of my favorite automotive photographers’ Instagram albums – I grabbed a prime lens and stalked the old girl, revelling in her shab.
As you may recall, I had been debating over what action to take with the interior – Daphne’s shredded seats in particular. On the weekend I was browsing for ideas on the internet, and wouldn’t you know it: I found a shabby, rusty ’74 DSpecial for sale with an ochre (dark gold) interior. As that’s […]
Things did not go according to plan today: as it was a public holiday in Victoria for the Melbourne Cup, I had intended to pick up a friend for a drive in my recently club permitted Rover P6B, named Juno (check her story out at www.junoV8.wordpress.com), but, as it turned out, she had to go into […]
To celebrate her registration, I ordered Daphne duLittle a special present: a vintage French keychain, with ‘Radio France Vaucluse’ on it. It was hard to choose between lots of wonderful designs, but this one won because Vaucluse is a place name in both France and Australia.
Another project of mine was to refresh the silver trim around the vents and other bits on the dashboard. (It’s these little things that make me feel a little less helpless in the project, as my hands-on contribution is pathetically small.) After reading threads on the forum and a heap of reviews of silver paint […]
Daphne came back from her first service at our local garage with a list of more things to be done. I suppose I should just expect this by now. Carby kit to be ordered (having to pour petrol in the carby to go isn’t funny, and this morning my mechanic had to come out to […]
For a while I’ve been thinking about getting a vintage picnic set for Daphne (who doesn’t have visions of warm, sunny afternoons spent driving and pausing at verdant roadsides to eat and drink in the serenity?), but being of a penny-pinching nature I couldn’t cough up the dosh. So when I found some gorgeous vintage […]
Daphne joined in with her first run today with our local classic car club – 18 cars of various makes, including Triumph, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Ford and Holden, made the hundred kay trip up to Nhill (on the Western Highway, midway-ish between Melbourne and Adelaide), and on to a Leyland collection, where it […]
Yes, she’s tired and tattered – life has not been all that kind to Daphne, and she’s more crone now than nymph. But I respect her wrinkles (though others are plotting to botox them away, and restore her paint to good-as-new), in the same way I respect my own grey hairs: we earned them. But […]
Goddess on a Highway 