Forecourt fancies and Project Cars

We have an old friend back in the workshop this week, or maybe it is more of a bad penny that keeps turning up...? The car in question is a Vanden Plas 1.7, the upmarket Allegro. It belongs to Kelsey Publishing and is being featured as a project car in Classics Monthly magazine. We had it for a while to sort out some steering issues and thought we had seen the last of it, but within a week it was back with a gearbox that would occasionally lose all drive. This is the AP automatic gearbox, so parts are not exactly plentiful. We have hatched a cunning plan though, and hope to get started on that soon.

Out on the forecourt, we have just sold the last of our current crop of TFs, so despite the weather people are still buying sports cars. We have had some really tidy TFs recently and they have all flown off the forecourt, even through the darkest winter months of December, January and February. For a while it has been a case of one in and one out, but now we have run out of stock. Hopefully spring will pull a few more out of the woodwork.

Talking of being pulled out of the woodwork, up on the ramp is a BGT that has come in to be recommissioned. It has been stored in a barn for a number of years, and although the tyres were ancient (20 years old or more) and had to be replaced, it is actually a pretty tidy car. We have had to order a new petrol tank for it, though.

Of course, not all of our work is based around working on classics and in recent weeks the MoT ramp has been in constant use. We would really recommend that people put a reminder on their phones a good week before their MoT is due because we have had so many people calling up in a panic to say that theirs ran out today and to ask if we can fix it. Naturally we will always do our best to help, but the truth is that often we need a few days' notice to schedule in the work.

The MG B during its recommissioning process

The mischievous Allegro

Busy with MOTS - have you booked your yet?