cars, sunshine, curry and aussie..

Got an email last week...
Fellow Aussie Vauxhaller and Viva owner Andrew was coming from Sweden to be in London town for a Vauxhall only swapmeet over the weekend.
Wanna join?
Err.... an aussie mate and a car fix??!..
I took about 1.6 secs to scrap my non existent schedule say yaaa huh, hell yes please.

It was 'bout 3 hours north west of the city, so thrifty van in hand, off we trot across the country side.

We were lucky, it was perfect sunshinin' 17 deg weather :D

We saw an un-photo-worthy shed full o' parts, Andrew was stoked with some of the crap he picked up.
I was more tickled pink by the sights outside... 

A young English guy owns this beauty, him and his
boyfriend had a woven picnic basket on the back seat :)
 Suited them to a teeeee!

This baby is a HB viva.. they don't do it for me..
 But still, mint condition, shiny, laa deee da. .! !

a toughy not-so-shiny mat black beast in the mix..
Noice.

The following day we had to swing past a shipping company to drop off some Viva panels and seat covers that Andrew bought for his cars in Aus.

 Customs says, NO dirt. So scrubbed we did....

2 hours later. Done and done.

 

way too godamn happy to be on his
hands 'n' knees scrubbing vynil..

Got me a stylin vest..
First and last time I scrub
car parts in England!

Post packing efforts, to the train we strolled toward beer and a feed...
Pretty station this one. Me likey.

Our 2 day adventure concluded with a delightfully tasty
Indian feed on Brick Lane with a bunch of Andrews mates.
Then to the pub with Dave.

Shit photo.

Splendid cider.

Stupendous couple of days.