Canley Classics News Blog: Museum Phase 2 expansion!

Builders are in and the next phase of the Triumph museum building expansion has started! This should give us an extra 800 sq ft of space (thinks, my first workshop was only 500 sq ft!)and much needed it was to! Recent visitors might have noticed a distinct lack of space in the museum as it stood. Initialy designed to hold 9 cars with room to walk around it has recently been holding up to 12 with no space to get between them! The extension is coming from refurbishing the wooden shed nearest the road that has up until now held only the reserve collection in long term store. Cars such as one of Tiny Lewis's rally Herald Coupe's (previously registered TL5), the oldest extent GT6 (chassis no2), and several other prototypes/rally/race Triumphs. These cars (all restoration projects) are temporarily outside pending completion of building work, the first time some of these cars have seen the daylight in many years. In theory this expansion is the last we can get out of the present site without major planning headache, but we are tentively looking at a site nearby that would give us over 20,000 sq ft of extra space, but its early days on that yet.
I had thought that acquiring ADU 4B would put the brakes on buying further cars for the museum for at least a year, but no I have managed to buy another couple of jems in since then without to much grief from the better half! One car in particular has been at the top of the wish list for many years, and a sister car to it might be coming our way to.
There follows a few piccys to illustrate the above, with a shot of my current daily driver (factory V8 saloon) thrown in just because I polished it yesterday and I'm loving it (apologies to McDonald's).