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 […]
Hurrah and hallelujah, for today my ‘goddess’ has risen from the dead (or, at least, from being a dead weight millstone around my neck)! It has been an epic journey of discovery and renewal, taken over many (admittedly bump-free) miles as we journeyed several times on more unregistered vehicle permits than I care to count between […]
Thanks to Her Majesty the Queen, we had an extra day to our weekend, so took the opportunity to finish the last little pre-RWC jobs. We decided to get the local auto trimmer to patch the radiator shroud (which had a broken zipper for limiting the air intake during very cold weather – a function […]
Not in a bad way: today it was my job to fit a temporary toggle switch for the new old driving lights – you can see I’m a complete novice by the way it isn’t centred vertically on the panel (due to my being kinda sucky with a drill)…luckily the switch is being replaced with […]
It’s been ages since last posting here, though not because progress hasn’t been made. Daphne has had rust cut out from the bottoms of the left doors, and from below both headlights, and had those sections resprayed – though, despite being the correct paint code, the colour isn’t a perfect match for the faded 40 […]
Goddess on a Highway 