Right.
This thing all of a sudden started to make a terrible noise that should be made illegal.
They didn't manage to shut it off for a while and I wanted to assist them with an axe. It turned out that sadly neither me, nor any of my fellow travellers had packed one for the trip.
This had a typical auction paint job, which sadly doesn't show on the pics.
As far as I could see, there was a nice car underneath all that orange peel and it has this:
"My Vintage Tyre" department:
Mmmmh, gum dipped!
They were fitted to this Canadian Fargo farm truck, which was actually the hidden gem of the auction:
Then it occurred to me that no matter how nice and original this truck is, it doesn't really belong over here.
I mean, you don't tell a 68 year old Canadian to move to the UK and expect him to thrive over here, do you?
I love it when parents build some lethal toys for their children.
This went on my auction game sheet in the Toff Tat category.
Sadly it is incredibly fucked.
The 505 was honest and genuinely good.
I was seriously tempted to bid, but I'm just too poor at this stage of my life.
This MB-texed 116 Woollard Special sadly didn't sport the required "6.9" numerals on the bootlid.
Instead it is not really powered by the Beelzebub's potion pressurised with a witch's hairdryer, which made me wonder why someone bothered to import it and now can't get rid of it.
This should give you an idea how crammed everything was.
Imagine this with a few hundred people added and it becomes quite annoying.
Some nickage was seriously considered for a moment.
This is how they kept things balanced.
And it was a V12. I wouldn't drive through my front garden like this.
More crammage.
Genuinely good stuff was few and far between.
I heeded only part of this advice.
Squire blended in remarkably well.
Seriously nice unrestored survivor.
Typical restoration quality.
Where I'm from it's classed as willful damage to property in concomitance with malicious destruction of cultural heritage.
I'm extremely attracted by the incredible half arsedness of these.