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It's a ford, what do you expect. Best thing I ever did was to get rid of mine. Lol. In all seriousness though, that machine looks awesome. I'd be very surprised if you don't get first place at Newbury. You certainly deserve it with all the time and work you've put into this.

If it's something that going to be used I'm often tempted to use tetroseal underseal, on out of sight bits. It's a lot less sticky than waxoyl underseal

I allways really liked the look of mk 1 transits however after that bl**dy Ford Focus that I had the misfortune of buying I will never own anything with a blue oval again! Pity the show is so far away as it looks a really good one. Some great pictures.

Thank you Richard. It's machines like yours and many others on here that inspire me to do mine. You're certainly right about the aches and pains, my health in terms of my joints is deteriating to the point I'm not sure how many more of these gems I can undertake, plus I'm seriously running out of room. After this and the Dowdeswell is finished, I think I'm going to have a break from them. My next project is going to be finishing off a toylander that is half done, never one to do it the easy way I'm converting this one to Honda power rather than the usually used invalidity scooters. A GX 200 will just fit under the bonnet with a cut out in the under tray and the bulkhead. The power will then be transferred via a centifrugal clutch to a ride on mower gearbox. To take the extra weight there's going to have to be a box section chassis squeezed in as well. I did toy with idea of 4x4 like the real thing but have ruled it out on space and cost grounds. At least with it I can do most the work in the warm living room rather than outside during the winter in the cold.

Heres the decals fitted. Also tonight I prepped and primed a chain case cover.

Thanks for your compliments. Still a few things to do, including the rotor shaft and chain case, but can now see the end. This morning I applied the decals on the rear end plus fitted the tool box. Photos to follow.

Happy birthday nigel

Haven't been on the forum for a while, but I'll be following this with interest. If it turns out half as good as your cub then the results will be amazing.

Due to having a few issues going on I haven't touched this for nearly 2 months. Heres where im up to.

Are you brave enough to say that to micheala?

Liked this car so much that I purchased another one. This time an 1989 car with only 56k on the clock and 18 dealer stamps in the book. Here they are side by side.

I purchased an anvil years ago, believe it or not was at a car boot sale. Big heavy bugger aswell! It took a lot to carry it back to the carpark.

Heres a couple of videos of it running. Sorry for the clanking but im trying to clean out all the set Concrete from inside the drum. Its hunting a little in the videos, in order to improve the running I was going to order a new needle and seat plus a governor spring, unless anyone has any other thoughts?

Im with bt, they really hacked me off too, so I got them to halve the line rental. The only good thing about being with bt is if there is a persistant fault then you can remind them that they own the line so insist that they sort it out. Prior to this I was with EE, I definatley wouldn't use them again! Kept telling me the fault was in my house and they wanted to charge me £100 to come out. Bt eventually tracked the fault down to the exchange but this took them 3 months!

Been having a busy day with the wire brush in the grinder. Due to the rheumatism in my hands I can only use it in short bursts. Plus with the heat today there was smoke coming out of it at the end! The annoying thing is it only takes seconds and a bucket of water to remove the concrete when wet, yet Ive hours ahead of me. Been speaking to Titch and he reckons itll be no problem to reproduce some decals, and ive found a source of Belle Orange paint. I thought i'd try emailing Belle to see if they could give me any information about its age etc, but typical of a lot of big companies they didn't even bother responding after nearly a fortnight!

Thanks Norm. It's been so long since I've done a Briggs that I'd forgotten how cheap they are to overhaul. This one only cost about £30 all in.

Been at a bit of a loose end whilst waiting for paint to dry on my Gem, so have sorted out the engine, and have managed to nearly straighten the drum. Last picture is my little helper/ hinderence.

They can really fuse on to the shaft. I would try soaking it for a couple of weeks in diesel or similar, then with applying a little heat, try a 3 legged puller, maybe even one attached to a slide hammer. I once spent 14 months trying to get one to move and I've had others literally fall off in your hands.

And the green handle grips. I'm sure from memory he was looking for close to £500. You've got one of the very last series 1 's there.Series 2 production started at G4800. It still has the cutout for the air filter on gearbox and the mounting point in the series 2 location. The chain cover has the gem on it which the guy swore was original and looking at the matching patina,he is probably right. A very interesting example from the change over period that definitely needs saving. Let me know your plans, if they're to keep it then next time I speak to my contact I'll get the factory records checked if you like?

heres a photo off my site. The guy trying to sell it claimed he was only the second owner from new. Got to admit it did look a very genuine machine.

I've just looked it up. I bet the serial number of this machine is G4497?There are photos on my website of it. i was offered it a few months back but the seller wanted a lot more than Harry paid for it.

I wasn't far out then. From research late series 1's had the air filter location in the same place as series 2's and the last of them came with "The Gem" embossed on the chain cover as well.

heres the engine I will be using as a doner, although I will probably have to use the tank and carb off the other one.

I just been having a proper look over it, this morning. I may get the engine done quite soon so I can then leave it running with a load of bricks and off cuts of metal in the drum to get off most of the build up of concrete from inside. Found in the past this is much easier than chiselling it off by hand.

Hi, I don't know the code but I'm sure in the past I've used a Kubota Blue as a close match, just watch out as there's a few different shades of Kubota blue.