Full Restoration - of anything

[basilio]

Is this for real ? Has this woman seriously pulled a wreck out of the bushes and turned it into a "brand new deal" with her trusty tool kit ?

Don't know but it makes fascinating viewing. Check out the safety gear in particular ... (Yep that is just for chumps.)

 

[SirRumpole]

I once heard a story about a farmer who went to clear a huge outcrop of blackberries. As he cut them down he found that they concealed a shed, and inside the shed was Rolls Royce, left there during the war and then forgotten.

Maybe a rural myth, but a good one.

 

[Smurf1976]

Is this for real ? Has this woman seriously pulled a wreck out of the bushes and turned it into a "brand new deal" with her trusty tool kit ?

If cost, especially labour, is not a consideration then anything's possible.

Most things are scrapped because either they're outdated or repair is uneconomic not because it's physically impossible to repair them.

 

[sptrawler]

When I moved to Exmouth in 1980, we had a couple of young boys 2 &3 and the wife had just had the third (she is in the pram), there wasn't any TV up there in 1980. .

Well back then money was paramount, that's what we up there for, so I saw this old motorbike on its side in a paddock in the industrial area, with its guts hanging out.

So as I had been into motor bikes since I was a kid, I thought there has to be money in that, if I can fix it.

So in I go and offer them $50 for it and walk away with a BSA 650 basket case, I didn't have a shed (it was a State housing commission rental) so all the work had to be done outside.

There wasn't an internet, or a motorbike shop, so most bits had to be made by hand, including the finishing touches.

8 months later and a lot of hard work and there was $US2k profit, I sold it to a yank who took it back to the U.S.

Now all I have to do is fix up the BMW basket case, I bought to keep me busy in retirement, it's a shame the wife is more interested in cruising, than me restoring motorbikes.

Hey @Smurf1976 see the Black and Decker drill made in Australia, with an alloy gearbox, ah the good old days, when we walked the walk. Lol
Full strip down, clean, repair or refabricate and rebuild, in the front yard and there wasn't even fences.
Back then there was a strange thing call trust and leaving the other people's $**** alone.

 

[farmerge]

When I moved to Exmouth in 1980, we had a couple of young boys 2 &3 and the wife had just had the third (she is in the pram), there wasn't any TV up there in 1980. .

Well back then money was paramount, that's what we up there for, so I saw this old motorbike on its side in a paddock in the industrial area, with its guts hanging out.

So as I had been into motor bikes since I was a kid, I thought there has to be money in that, if I can fix it.

So in I go and offer them $50 for it and walk away with a BSA 650 basket case, I didn't have a shed (it was a State housing commission rental) so all the work had to be done outside.

There wasn't an internet, or a motorbike shop, so most bits had to be made by hand, including the finishing touches.

8 months later and a lot of hard work and there was $US2k profit, I sold it to a yank who took it back to the U.S.

Now all I have to do is fix up the BMW basket case, I bought to keep me busy in retirement, it's a shame the wife is more interested in cruising, than me restoring motorbikes.

Hey @Smurf1976 see the Black and Decker drill made in Australia, with an alloy gearbox, ah the good old days, when we walked the walk. Lol
Full strip down, clean, repair or refabricate and rebuild, in the front yard and there wasn't even fences.
Back then there was a strange thing call trust and leaving the other people's $**** alone.

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All about trust
I was talking to a neighbour up the road a bit from us this morning, and he was bemoaning the sad state of affairs.
He had a phone call from one of his neighbours early in the morning telling him his sheep were out on the road.
Seems some low-life scum bag decided that the pair of 12 foot gates on the road boundary were more needed elsewhere so this shytbag knocked them off.
I said it was probably the same low life that knocked off some of our front fence and star pickets.
Trust and honesty is gradually disappearing in this so-called modern world.