1960 Austin A35 van revisited

Have a feeling this is going to be good... I'm along for the ride 

Lack of space probably rules out a WW2 tank!

Stop messing about and get on with it, Johnny.   

Sorry to read about your misfortune! It sounds highly unfair from the beginning.

Does this mean you lost the location you built that part "second floor" in too? I can't begin to imagine how your last year must have been...

I'm always in two minds about the old adage "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger"... I have always held this as my personal motto, right up until it all caught up with me and I found myself in a burn-out (of the non rubber variety). I've had help, but I find that it's something that is forever looming, waiting for a chance. What I'm trying to say is, make sure you have enough good in your life to counter balance the bad and stay healthy!

Very cleverly engineered exit from business… walk away from over a million in debt, retire and your son opens up tomorrow with all the assets and no debt. Boils my pi$$ that the liquidator is in on it, manages to find his £75k fee but everyone else can suck hind tit…😡

That's what I feared - all too common and you're right: bastages. 

2 more things.

1. do you have any further recourse? (IE assuming it was a court ordered affair can you not appeal it?)

2. Did you come out of this all with the Mazda?

Leaving the negativity behind, and moving on, you cannot cook a steak twice…😊
Looking at the list of cons with this project, a lot are interrelated. Not looking at what I cannot do much about at the moment, but rather focussing on what I can…

Too many projects- easy fix, keep the Mazda, sell the piaggio ape projects as this has stalled. Was going to be house elf’s uni project,but that’s changed…

Haven’t got the money- time is money. It will sort itself out. Selling off the ape project already starts to yield results. It’s proving easier to sell off the parts as opposed to a project. Taking more time,but for greater financial reward

Wedding anniversary- what’s done is done and I wouldn’t have it any other way, a couple of days away will do us both good

Lost storage- not ideal, but bright side of that is less financial burden every month.

Garage bursting at the seams- another project actually remedies this in a way. Again, something that only costs time,and potentially puts money in the project pot. It’s gone from , “ shut the door and walk away overwhelmed”, to “ let’s sort it out”. Decluttering can be very therapeutic. A lot of the stuff I kept was stock, tooling and jigs I had from ex customers. Not ex customers from having a falling out with them, but because of Turdy Mc Turdface’s actions. Having spent over a year trying to get directly into the end users company’s without any joy,it’s time to walk away. Big skip and in it all goes. Bottle of whiskey to numb the pain of getting £256,83 back having spent roughly £13k on material for parts with an invoiceable value of £25k. The less said about that the better 🙄. Why am I keeping all these jigs,and tooling? You know what? …feck em. If any of these jobs ever comes back,they can pay for all the tooling again. Scrap is at £200 a ton, and that’s where it’s going. Currently filling up skip number 2. Quite liberating. Does one’s mental health a world of good 😊

Dont have a tow vehicle
Don’t have a trailer…. But I do have good friends that do . Problem solved. I am blessed 😊

It’s a non runner… yeah, so am I 🤣, we will get along just fine
It’s a lot of work- well, getting up every morning the last year has been too, but it didn’t stop me then, so why should it now?

It doesn’t have an engine
It doesn’t have a gearbox- why should this be a problem? It also means it doesn’t have a power train that may not have been my first choice.

The incomplete engine I have being too big…let the fat bar steward go on a diet, even if it means going under the knife. It’s going to fit, it’s just not aware of the fact just yet 🤣. It’s incompleteness also can be turned into a positive,in that it might not go back to being complete in the same shape and form as it left the factory.

Ecu and the lack of money to buy one - what’s stopping me from building one? Kits can be had and the missus never knows what to buy me for Christmas. Well ,this year she does.

So that’s where it stands. Lobbing crap and making space and Shekels. Oh, what a glamorous life I lead 🤣. All the while working closer to a 19/20th November special delivery. 😊

I am VAT registered. My accountant has sorted this out that I get maximum benefit from the loss. I won’t be paying tax for awhile