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I'm about to ask if anyone in the Essex crew has a brake pipe flarer I can borrow - and thought it might be useful if we had a subforum for these requests? There are loads of engine crane borrowing threads etc...?

Well I think all's been said, apart from my spin on black ice on the bridge over the M1 at Garforth, but that was before I got to the Fox and Grapes. I just did a twirl and ended up facing a Transit van, no damage, but got off better than the Nissan Micra that had hit the barrier just before me. I missed the car pulling out on Buttercup, but I was in front. My car died coming in to Hummamby, but a down hill coast into a pub car park and a fuel problem was diagnosed. Ignition on and no ticking from the fuel pump. Call the AA or hit it with a spanner? Hit it with a spanner and off to Filey. Cafe closed on the Brigg, so a walk down to the Coble Landing for Fish an Chips, then on to Scarborough and a blast around Olivers Mount, a pose around the town centre, (Buttercups normal Friday night acctivity) and an underground carpark later and we pulled up on the sea front path outside a cafe. It was starting to get a bit darker by then so we decided to head for home. A fuel stop and on to the A64. I dropped back a bit on the York bypass as I couldn't see where I was going, rubbish wipers, rubbish lights, a washer pipe that kept coming off and one mirror that I couldn't see anything in. It was nice to meet up with Buttercup and Mr and Mrs Bioman, sorry, I mean Liz, and hope to see you again sometime. I've got the worlds worst camera which only took 3 pictures, so here they are, Fox and Grapes, On Filey Brigg, And the War Memorial at Olivers Mount.

So, What an eventful day we've all Had. To start with the bumble bee was protesting about coming out in the cold but after about 40 min of gentle persuasion she decided to change her mind and got us under way. Luckily for us the others were waiting, standing in the cold for at least 45 min as the fox and grapes was closed, I don't feel guilty at all, NOT. After talking with Martin he was all ready for the run, however excitement was short lived and unfortunately Martin never made the Fox and Grapes, In true topgear style we just left him stood by the roadside awaiting recovery. we were keen to crack on so we set off with a couple wheel spins to warm the tyres. We trundled on down the A64 before we stopped for fuel and the unavoidable toilet stop. We then set off again on the A64 when Buttercup nearly got wiped out by a woman ( Not that gender matters of course Julie) pulling out of a layby, followed by someone else doing the same to me, maybe 2 yellow westfield's were not bright enough to see. The fun started after we got on the road towards Stamford bridge and the traffic died down. We followed our trusty Red Spider down the lovely country roads, beautiful views I might add. We got to a road junction in Hunmanby when Red Spiders hands started to flap and he decided to get out, thought he'd decided to walk but soon realised it was his westfield that wanted him to walk, not him. We all watched helplessly while he pushed the car down the hill into a pub car park where he got laid down on the freezing ground and started to tinker, all it needed was the fuel pump tapping with the back edge of a wrench and we were all off again with a new leader that looked very much like a buttercup. We were now in Buttercup territory. We headed down to Filey sea front without trying to draw attention to ourselves. We ended up at filey brigg café to find that we couldn't park there because it was a caravan park and the cafe was closed so we had to park across the road, we kindly obliged and turned round our cars. A short walk led us to the beach where we found the Chippy, Mrs Bioman and Mrs Rickyboy were on table duty and they did very well by jumping on the next available table. (Result). After the hike back to the cars we headed off up to Scarborough to take in the views from Oliver's mount followed by a drive on the seafront. Posing for photographs on the way. By this time, it was getting dark so we headed off for a petrol station followed by the long cold drive home, which despite the cold and low visibility was quite enjoyable, even the mrs fell asleep. Good day had by all All the best for 2015

Gulp!! I'll require several kidneys then :-(

I'll bite... did they find the number plate then plan a whole trip on it? No way was that bit planned. Presumably their fixers told them they'd get a better reception there than they actually got.

Race Retro at Stoneleigh in February, always a good day out and the group B rally cars being used in anger on the rally stage is worth the entrance fee alone.

Nunny will be in France ;-)He'll be tending my tented erection

With everything painted the assembly of the rear drive shaft housing could be completed. I was slightly apprehensive at this stage as it's been built from parts collected from all 3 cars but thankfully after a small amount of fettling it all went together ok. Even the driveshafts which are modified and shortened mini shafts turned out to be the right length The eagle eyed will have spotted the mechanical fuel pump mounted off the back of the housing driven by a cam on the driveshaft; I'm still trying to decide what to do about fuelling at the moment. One problem with the JW4 was that when the car was stationary the fuel had to be pumped by hand as the mechanical pump would only operate when the car was moving. I'm therefore temped to discretely install a small solid state electric pump to overcome this issue. The final job of today was to fit a pair of mini wheels which I had kicking around the garage, and to also install the seat and steering column.