Car Park Finished!

At last our car park is finished, and very nice it looks to. What was supposed to have taken 2 to 3 weeks ended up being more like 2 to 3 months. To be honest no one could have forecast what a miserable September/October, and begining of November we were end up having with virtually constant rain throughout. What a disruption to normal business its all been, its really nice to be getting tidy again. Iv'e spent all of this afternoon pressure washing the buildings down that surround the car park, of concrete splashs and general dust, mud and dirt. I don't know how they managed it but the car park guys even managed to get concrete splashs on our Vitesse 6003VC, and that's in the museum, not a happy bunny!

E bay!

If you are an avid E bay watcher then you might have noticed our presence on there recently. We have taken the plunge and are 'testing out the water' with a range of fast moving servicing items and the odd Stanpart original. We are under no delusions that we are about to make a fortune from this endeavor, our initial aim is something quite different. With traditional advertising mediums proving unproductive, we are using our presence on E bay to attract new customers to the Canley fold who might not otherwise have found us. Various surveys we have carried out over the years have proved to us that in the more usual paper adverts in monthly classics car mags and club magazines, we tend to be preaching to the converted. The consequential take up of new customers per pound spent on this form of advertising is proving very uneconomical. Whereas the exciting prospects E bay offers to get to a wider audience, and new customers world wide is an exponentially more cost effective medium.
So grab yourself a bargain at the expence of our advertising budget, the majority of the parts on offer may very well be one offs, don't leave it till the next time, there might not be one! Of course if you don't like the hustle and bustle of the auction room (be it on-line) you could always simply buy it from us direct at our always competitive retail prices.

www.canleyclassics.com/ebay

Another Spitfire?

After the excitement of ADU 4B it has been very difficult to motivate myself to get enthusiastic about anything else, hence no Blog for a week. That was until a chance conversation with a freind about an important Spitfire that might be available locally, here we go again! It's all a bit vague this time but from the little information I have its definitely worth pursuing. What else is happening here? Well the car park works are dragging on, not helped by the miserable October weather. We are about three quarters done now, but that last bit seems to be taking the longest. Even when complete, we will be unable to drive on it for over a week. We really would have liked to have had another one of our open days, but with the way things are and the uncertainty about the car park its just to difficult to contemplate at the moment. Something to look forward to for the near future though!