a fairground life

Still no transport. I went to the auctions again and carefully vetted my choices. The pick of the bunch (for me) seemed to be three ex PO vans. All 1.3 ltr, 54 plate v/hall combo's. So I was there when they started them up to drive them through. The first had no throttle, the engine was powerless and at full rev's took several second to come alive. The second had damage to the drivers door jam and the window fell out when they tried to lower it, but the engine seemed ok. The Third had good body work all around and the engine was responsive, only problem was the pools of engine oil that spat out the exhaust when revved up! So I bid on the 2nd and topped out long before the £1400 bid+vat+sellers fee+1% cash handling fee. Maybe another week.

Was at Kilwinning last night with the DZ for their x-mas light up. It was in a small car park behind the main street. We had pulled in the night before but were unable to set on the plot due to the car park being nearly full. Arriving at 11 am the next morning the ride was set up ready for 12:30 pm . So we hung around until opening at 5 pm. It was nearly 7 pm before we seen any weight of people and we did ride well for an hour, then the heaviest hail shower ever, came down and cleared the event. We dribbled on until 8:40 pm and that was it. We had the ride down for 9:45 pm. Since the other rides were still erected and blocking our exit we managed to manoeuvre the ride through a narrow side exit and bump it down off the kerb onto the road. At that "r" took it back to the mall while I followed in the pick up.