Just for you Sky High!
It’s done.


Gear-box, bodyshell, ancilliary bits…added to something else I recall from earlier in the year, and it’s beginning to sound like a new car is required!!:diablo:
Once the box is in I’ll have basically built a new car! Oh, and my road tax is still free :p
Gear-box, bodyshell, ancilliary bits…added to something else I recall from earlier in the year, and it’s beginning to sound like a new car is required!!:diablo:
Once the box is in I’ll have basically built a new car! Oh, and my road tax is still free :p
…so next time we fire her up you’ll be quite happy to stand right behind the jet pipes then?!
replacement MGB gearbox now nestling safely in the garage awaiting fitting! 🙂
replacement MGB gearbox now nestling safely in the garage awaiting fitting! 🙂
😀 ^ I knew it’d happen! Quicker than I’d anticipated in fairness…!
It had to remain un-cropped, due to the presence of our very own IanF’s head. He’s a creature rarely captured t’other side of the lens! 😀
Either way, much beer will be consumed when the momentous occasion finally occurs. Scott, Rich and myself will just have to get used to the embarrassment of including ‘and a shandy for the boy’ (Ben) when ordering the round I suppose! :D:D:D
Either way, much beer will be consumed when the momentous occasion finally occurs. Scott, Rich and myself will just have to get used to the embarrassment of including ‘and a shandy for the boy’ (Ben) when ordering the round I suppose! :D:D:D
Rich doesn’t believe its an aircraft unless it has lots of prop blades wobbling randomly in different directions Timbo…! 😀
Full update of the weekend’s events tomorrow evening when I manage to get the laptop, the camera and the uplink cable in the same place at the same time, not 50 miles apart :rolleyes:
But for now, some camera phone shots of a shape I never thought I’d see over Elvington’s runway… 😉


I suppose those smaller tyres are Shack tail wheel tyres and not boots suitable for, say, a Victor?! 😀
And we thought we had a spares-fest! Wow.
indeed so. Yet ironically, I suspect she gets more TLC where she is than she would have in certain ‘more suitable’ locations…