Blind Faith!

We are having a bit of a clearout here at Canleys of project/restoration cars. It's been on the cards for a while as the car park has slowly filled with un-loved Triumph's. To be honest it dosn't look great to have half a dozen dead motors outside festering for all to see, it's not an image we are keen to promote? Customers however seem to love it, it's generally the first thing they head for when they turn up here. The other issue is space, when the British Motor Heritage 7 1/2 ton lorry turns up on Thursday's he needs a little more space to manoeuvre than the average Spitfire! Anyway the process is nearly complete, four cars gone this week, and another going next week, and we are most of the way there to having no cars outside prior to the winter. All the cars have/are going to loving homes, bar a nasty 13/60 estate that no-one wanted to take on at any price. The latest escapee went last night as former Kipping employee and good mate Ashlee Chambers made off with the cheap as chips TR7 (very cheap, he hasn't handed over any cash yet, in fact I had to buy him a Shandy on the way to delivering it!). Bearing in mind the car hadn't run since 1992, I thought Mr Chambers efforts in trying to get it going so he could drive it home were valiant (blind faith!). Despite being a former AA patrolman he didn't manage to get it started fortunately, so we towed it the short distance to the Chambers residence in Nuneaton. Apparently the TR7 is a present for Mrs Chambers, Patsy you poor girl, he really knows how to treat you!

Talking of former Kipping employee's, we hosted somewhat of an impromtu reunion here this week as purely by co-incidence several of them turned up more or less at the same time! In no particular order we had the pleasure of Big Bad Barry Hollingsworth, Mick Papworth (who's here every couple of day's anyway buying bits/doing deals, in fact we see more of him now than when he worked for us!), Jason Lee who came back to work for us after a 10 year break from the Kipping fold, and the above mentioned Mr Chambers. Just like the old days in the late 80's, early 90's, when men were men, and women were no-where to be seen, oop's nearly forgot that nice girl who used to build the overdrives!