Instead of posting I have been working on stuff, mostly up until 10 or 11 at night. Any remaining time is spent eating, relaxing, getting cleaned up.

Last entry, the van had wheels and they looked flash. Next up, a wof. But first, as it is a week until Saturday, a stereo. See me chop out the old one.


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I'm pretty sure I haven't thrown out many of the various aerosol product cans I have used on this van so far ( Read more... )

AlI can say is,yeah. I fucking hate working on cars.

I mean by that: the essential maintenance and repair of a car is an absolute dirty, boring, bloody chore. Pay someone else if you can.

What is NOT a dirty, boring, bloody chore, is producing a WORK OF ART.


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Still working on the van wheels, one a day pretty much, buffing off the rust, trying a better colour pattern.


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A quick concept job, to see if the colour and dimension balance is right. With added extras from not waiting until the paint was dry to remove the tape.


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It is easy to equate incompetence with malice, as we know, and when I found myself assuming the worst strategic intentions due to the nature of the man's accent I began to try visualising him actually struggling with a busy workload, poor English, poor technical nous, infrastructural hindrance, and the general mental battering that comes with ( Read more... )

Every now and then I kind of know something is the case without having any reason to believe it ( Read more... )

I have a new deadline, and it is weekly. This week's is having the wheels and brakes assembled ( Read more... )