after a fantastic saturday night out in cardiff with rod912 and dude, meeting up with kelster and mave (much bench racing and discussion of new projects was done) it was off up to raceshack to help matty walker with getting his ghia ready for the volksworld show… it’s going to be awesome… 🙂

unfortunately at the traffic lights entering the industrial estate where the workshop is i turned sharp right to follow the road and the car kept going int a straight line and i stacked it into the kerb.

and ripped off the front passenger side wheel.

oops.

dude, who was sat in the passenger seat, took it quite well.

i popped out the lower ball joint and bent the lower wishbone throgh about 30 degrees. not good.

after a few minutes surveying i got on the phone to thomas diamondgeezer iin bristol and got a number for danny P in ross on wye who said ‘no problem, i’ll get you one of those and bring it up… !”

after a heroic roadside rescue by matty and rod we got the jetta to raceshack on the trailer and the afternoons entertainment started.

hand polishing a porsche gearbox to a mirror shine…
…it’s wrong, just wrong – in all the best kinds of ways.

danny p arrived with a lower wishbone he’d pulled off a mk2 golf he happened to have lying around and i persuaded him, with the help of a fistfull of twenties, to fit it all for me while i got on with polishing – it was about all my poor confused brain was good for.

and it got me home and the wheel didn’t fall off either !

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