Well first of all I must apologise for a lack of info until now!!!
I'll explain all.......
Firstly I'd like to thank Tog and Jon for their help with getting the information out there about the rebuild.
Tog broke the news about the rebuild on Eurodragster back in November which was great! It got us a lot of attention which was amazing!!!!
Then Jon kindly followed up by running the story on the front page of the UKDRN site which was brilliant! He also set this forum post up for us which is why I'm here now writing this update.
To help us along the way he also got in contact with Custom Car magazine who kindly ran the story in their January issue
We'd planned to get on with the rebuild before Christmas but work kept us busy which stopped us moving the car into our other workshop to start the strip down.
I must say it was very lucky it did however, as Christmas eve we got a call that the storms had caused some damage to the workshop. Off we popped to assess the damage to be welcomed by total carnage!!!!!
A tree had come down over the corner of the workshop causing thousands of pounds of damage! Had the car been in the workshop and the tree fallen a few feet further to the left it could have all ended before it had begun.
Unfortunately that workshop wasn't the only one to suffer from the weather. At the beginning of the year I'd built a new engine workshop in my back garden to rebuild the engine in at home in any spare time I managed to find.
Over a few evenings before Christmas I'd started to strip our old spare engine ready to assess the condition of it and begin the rebuild of a short motor. After a week off for the holidays with the flu and more time spent erecting a repair on the car workshop, I opened the doors of my engine workshop to find the week+ of rain and wind had managed to drive the rain in everywhere leaving an inch of water in my workshop and a coating of mould on the walls inside. Engine parts on my bench were sat in puddles of water and everything had started to rust! A can of wd40 and a heater later and a day of wiping everything over and I'd managed to salvage things but this was not the start to 2014 I was hoping for!!!! While all this was happening John Bockelman of the US based Radio show "Racing' and Rockin' with Draglist.com" had been in touch. RacersReunion Radio is a great radio station which broadcasts every Monday evening at 8pm EST playing rock music and speaking about drag racing. Each week John features a sportsman racer of the week telling the story behind the historic racer and team, and he wanted to run his first European racer feature on us. Obviously we were very honoured and so after some chatting and story telling he put together a segment for broadcast on the 13th of January. And so that leads on to today. I finally managed to get the car uncovered and out of storage and up to our workshop ready for the work to finally begin.
Luckily she still looks great! She's in quite good condition and there doesn't appear to be half as much work as originally thought so we're fairly confident we can have her ready by Easter for the Surrey Street Rodders 40th Wheelsday show.
To continue with the media interest in the car the county paper "Surrey Advertiser" is looking into running stories on the history, rebuilding and return of the car this year to the strip so even more interest and publicity is to come our way!!!
All we need now is someone to invest in sponsorship to take full advantage of all the media interest we are receiving!!!! Should anyone be interested or know of anyone who might be please get in contact with me at carpenterracing@btinternet.com - I'll happily get in contact to discuss options to get you and your company noticed in partnership with our World Famous and Record Breaking Historic Junior Fueler!!!
I'll post more news as and when it happens
- Andrew
I'll explain all.......
Firstly I'd like to thank Tog and Jon for their help with getting the information out there about the rebuild.
Tog broke the news about the rebuild on Eurodragster back in November which was great! It got us a lot of attention which was amazing!!!!
Then Jon kindly followed up by running the story on the front page of the UKDRN site which was brilliant! He also set this forum post up for us which is why I'm here now writing this update.
To help us along the way he also got in contact with Custom Car magazine who kindly ran the story in their January issue
We'd planned to get on with the rebuild before Christmas but work kept us busy which stopped us moving the car into our other workshop to start the strip down.
I must say it was very lucky it did however, as Christmas eve we got a call that the storms had caused some damage to the workshop. Off we popped to assess the damage to be welcomed by total carnage!!!!!
A tree had come down over the corner of the workshop causing thousands of pounds of damage! Had the car been in the workshop and the tree fallen a few feet further to the left it could have all ended before it had begun.
Unfortunately that workshop wasn't the only one to suffer from the weather. At the beginning of the year I'd built a new engine workshop in my back garden to rebuild the engine in at home in any spare time I managed to find.
Over a few evenings before Christmas I'd started to strip our old spare engine ready to assess the condition of it and begin the rebuild of a short motor. After a week off for the holidays with the flu and more time spent erecting a repair on the car workshop, I opened the doors of my engine workshop to find the week+ of rain and wind had managed to drive the rain in everywhere leaving an inch of water in my workshop and a coating of mould on the walls inside. Engine parts on my bench were sat in puddles of water and everything had started to rust! A can of wd40 and a heater later and a day of wiping everything over and I'd managed to salvage things but this was not the start to 2014 I was hoping for!!!! While all this was happening John Bockelman of the US based Radio show "Racing' and Rockin' with Draglist.com" had been in touch. RacersReunion Radio is a great radio station which broadcasts every Monday evening at 8pm EST playing rock music and speaking about drag racing. Each week John features a sportsman racer of the week telling the story behind the historic racer and team, and he wanted to run his first European racer feature on us. Obviously we were very honoured and so after some chatting and story telling he put together a segment for broadcast on the 13th of January. And so that leads on to today. I finally managed to get the car uncovered and out of storage and up to our workshop ready for the work to finally begin.
Luckily she still looks great! She's in quite good condition and there doesn't appear to be half as much work as originally thought so we're fairly confident we can have her ready by Easter for the Surrey Street Rodders 40th Wheelsday show.
To continue with the media interest in the car the county paper "Surrey Advertiser" is looking into running stories on the history, rebuilding and return of the car this year to the strip so even more interest and publicity is to come our way!!!
All we need now is someone to invest in sponsorship to take full advantage of all the media interest we are receiving!!!! Should anyone be interested or know of anyone who might be please get in contact with me at carpenterracing@btinternet.com - I'll happily get in contact to discuss options to get you and your company noticed in partnership with our World Famous and Record Breaking Historic Junior Fueler!!!
I'll post more news as and when it happens
- Andrew