This saga starts over 20 years ago.
OH had always fancied building a kit car - the odd-looking cars you sometimes see on the road, not in a matchbox! He looked at loads of different options and finally bought one, and a donor car for the chassis. He did quite a lot of the basic work on it - it actually looks like a car with 4 wheels, a bonnet, a boot, seats and a steering wheel - even an engine. Then various things happened and he had less time to work on it. A friend helped with wiring the dashboard up, and then the rot set in!
As I've said before, my OH is a hoarder. Where better to hoard things that I would encourage him to get rid of than in the garage. So over the years, things piled up - in, on around and even underneath the half-built car. Periodically we have discussed this (as you can imagine), mostly when I've been trying to de-ice my car first thing in a morning because I can't get it into the garage! A couple of retired car mechanics have looked at it, sucked their teeth and disappeared.
OH has been teaching our neighbour to do woodturning, and as luck would have it our neighbour's golfing buddy was keen to learn too. It turns out that his job was building bullet-proof cars for people who need such things. Newly retired, he's finding golf and wood turning are ok, but he misses work.
So this morning OH, our neighbour and his golf buddy are all busy doing 'stuff' in the garage. I'm not holding my breath, but it would be wonderful to be able to put my car under cover next winter!
OH had always fancied building a kit car - the odd-looking cars you sometimes see on the road, not in a matchbox! He looked at loads of different options and finally bought one, and a donor car for the chassis. He did quite a lot of the basic work on it - it actually looks like a car with 4 wheels, a bonnet, a boot, seats and a steering wheel - even an engine. Then various things happened and he had less time to work on it. A friend helped with wiring the dashboard up, and then the rot set in!
As I've said before, my OH is a hoarder. Where better to hoard things that I would encourage him to get rid of than in the garage. So over the years, things piled up - in, on around and even underneath the half-built car. Periodically we have discussed this (as you can imagine), mostly when I've been trying to de-ice my car first thing in a morning because I can't get it into the garage! A couple of retired car mechanics have looked at it, sucked their teeth and disappeared.
OH has been teaching our neighbour to do woodturning, and as luck would have it our neighbour's golfing buddy was keen to learn too. It turns out that his job was building bullet-proof cars for people who need such things. Newly retired, he's finding golf and wood turning are ok, but he misses work.
So this morning OH, our neighbour and his golf buddy are all busy doing 'stuff' in the garage. I'm not holding my breath, but it would be wonderful to be able to put my car under cover next winter!
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