Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on May 24, 2008 11:55:46 GMT
We thought that you would be interested to know that it is no longer sitting in the corner of the scrap yard. It has "escaped".
Yours truly, in a rather protracted moment of sentimental madness, has bought it. In a move that has gone against my policy of only having one old car/DAF, I felt the need to get it away. As mentioned before, all credit to the scrapyard, who really did have a "soft spot" for it, and were keeping it away from the crane and crusher. (The staff have asked for progress pics and reports!)
But the poor old thing was slowly deteriorating standing in the sun and rain, and as there was very little sign of an imminent rescue, I felt that the time had come.
I had been pondering about it for few weeks, but then a chat with DAF Daffer at Rutland the other week, convinced me to go for it.
So, it is now being looked after by Paul DAF Daffer, who has been a rock in terms of allowing use of his garage. He is also going to put his expert knowledge and skills into getting it better - it does need quite a lot of work - and he will fit this in as and when he can.
When done, it is probably unlikely that I will be able to hold on to it, due to "my policy" but also storage and time issues that I have. But hopefully, we will find it yet another new home.
Paul and I are going to treat it as a "magazine project", so we shall be running articles and pics in club magazines detailing what needs to be and will be done.
So there we are. Do I need therapy?!
Yours truly, in a rather protracted moment of sentimental madness, has bought it. In a move that has gone against my policy of only having one old car/DAF, I felt the need to get it away. As mentioned before, all credit to the scrapyard, who really did have a "soft spot" for it, and were keeping it away from the crane and crusher. (The staff have asked for progress pics and reports!)
But the poor old thing was slowly deteriorating standing in the sun and rain, and as there was very little sign of an imminent rescue, I felt that the time had come.
I had been pondering about it for few weeks, but then a chat with DAF Daffer at Rutland the other week, convinced me to go for it.
So, it is now being looked after by Paul DAF Daffer, who has been a rock in terms of allowing use of his garage. He is also going to put his expert knowledge and skills into getting it better - it does need quite a lot of work - and he will fit this in as and when he can.
When done, it is probably unlikely that I will be able to hold on to it, due to "my policy" but also storage and time issues that I have. But hopefully, we will find it yet another new home.
Paul and I are going to treat it as a "magazine project", so we shall be running articles and pics in club magazines detailing what needs to be and will be done.
So there we are. Do I need therapy?!
I'd feel terrible if it ended up being crushed.
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