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A bit of a change of direction!

I added painted wood framing.

In Helsinki last week whilst on a cruise, tiny Toyota Aygo

It's Fathers Day in the UK so one present from each son..

So, back from 2 weeks cruising throughout Scandinavia, I have painted the woodwork as we would have to if outside in all weathers in an acrylic light grey..

Cheers Carl, I'm nearly, nearly there. Thank god for coffee sticks/stirrers!

Nearly, nearly there, thank god for coffee sticks/stirrers...

Wow Bob! I bet though they are expensive? It's OK I've just looked! I do like the shorty De Lorean though!

Nearly there, a few blunders on the way but sorted, away now for at least two weeks!

Superb! We had similar to these in the 1960's, some of had the Vespa, some like me had the Lambretta! Some were standard, others had sports exhaust and chrome plated side panel and stacks of lights on the front! Great times were had as Mods, smart clothes, short haircuts.

Although I have quite a few more flowers in pots to do, I started putting together the greenhouse floor layout..

Another discounted ebay kit..

Test fitting, wheels on and trying the two roof units..

Wow very nice colour!

Thanks Bainford, no issues as yet, seems to be quite simple and straightforward.

Whilst various glued parts of the greenhouse are drying, I've started the Italeri BJ44 Land Cruiser. As two tops come with the kit, I'm painting and test fitting both.. And painting the other what would be a fixed hardtop.. And started the chassis...

Was it designed by a five year old? Sorry nothing against five year olds!

Yes superb build. I saw a few pf these as a rally marshall, as well as we still have a few 'civilian' ones on the road here in the UK.

Thanks guys.

We've always had manual gear shifts, far easier to control than auto's I've tried in the past have been uncontrollable in cold/frosty/slippery conditions and we've only been driving for 40+ years when (as now) automatics were so much more expensive and if you passed your test in an auto, you weren't allowed to drive a manual gearbox version. Although we won't as pensioners be able to afford to buy an EV, being all auto we wouldn't drive one anyway. We also couldn't afford an EV battery replacement.

Our youngest son has a BMW Wagon like that and in that colour here in the UK we have lots of them. I'm gratefull they don't do Cybertrucks in right hand drive as we wouldn't have room for them on our roads, plus we don't have the infrastructure to charge EV's anyway. Plus again they are far too expensive to buy any EV, and the shocker is the price of a battery replacement. In a national paper with a motoring section Q&A, a guy has bought an 11 year old Toyota Hybrid he says is very sluggish, and asks what he should do after being told that a new battery pack for that model is £6000 after buying it fro £2500, the expert said 'Find a car dumping yard to take it away', but will cost £150 to do that!

COR! I wish we had swap meets like this in the UK!

As I Beach Buggy fan and VW Beetle owner X3 this is just brilliant!

Thanks Carl. I should have found and fitted some outriggers to stop it toppling over on corners and an engine hop-up as it only has a 600cc twin cylinder engine, perhaps a V8 or something similar!

From good old ebay another 4X4..