DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Blood marvellous…..have been away for a couple of weeks so missed out on a regular forum check-up…..tres bon monsieur Slade

Well done….and well worth all the effort…..
All the best….now enjoy the driving……
Jonathan

I have got to say I have consistently never liked any brown interior on a car….just not my thing…..but this….its a game changer…..looks amazing…..looking forward to seeing it in the flesh…..reckon that drive we have promised to do together….got to be the E Type…and this……
Best
Jp

Great photograph…wonderfully dated and full of such atmosphere…seemed to have caught the group in different states of being prepared for the shot…who’s car was the P1800…?

Templates….oh yes….naturally…...by request, the opening is now 1mm bigger than it was originally….to allow for a little thicker build up of paint around the inside of the apertures….this picture shows the chrome surrounds in place to prove it… https://i.postimg.cc/fRJzBFKz/77-EA3-B26-E5-A64-CC9-BCDE...

Part 12 So….where were we….ah yes….Sussex…. Like is without doubt a series of chapters…some positive…and some not….some rewarding and some challenging…but the positive ones help or do hopefully make up for the negative, and in my case, despite the minor set backs when building or maintaining the car...

Cheeky bugger……

Hi Andrew…thanks for the kind words…it has been a journey for sure…..and something of a challenge at times…but so far the skills of Mr C have yet to be beaten….. 8…..am intrigued which are the favoured 2 details…let’s see if I highlight them as the story unfolds….

Thanks Mike…good to hear from you….it is a lovely colour, you’re right…the original for mine is darker…but more of that to come

Hi Graham…an XK150 as a hill climber…wonder how good it was at that..?

Thanks guys… Part 11 Refinements The other true pleasure was mulling over in my mind for hours on end what I actually wanted to do with the car…a process I am still enjoying though the car is soon to go for paint….. It is indeed a wonderful luxury sometimes inspired by the work of others….. This del...

Oh yes….

Part 10 The Metal Meister …part 2 Moving into December 2022 progress picked up in a visual sense as the reinstatement of the cills, plus the A and B posts was a great stage to get to…as all of us who have been through the restoration process knows there is a lot of faith needed at times when money s...

Part 9 The Metal Meister …part 1 The arrangement with Envirostrip that they deliver the car directly to Barry was also to keep the freshly cleaned shell in his dry workshop, as although he was not be able to start immediately, it was a better environment than my slightly moist newly built garage The...