New Home for Nigel’s Crate
Nigel has written about the James Bond style mini-submarine container bought for posting Aston parts to Canada only the Canadians wouldn’t have it.
He thinks I’ve burned it, but actually I’ve put it to good use.  I spotted it was painted in Renault racing colours, and decided it would make an excellent place to store Renault parts.Â
In the mad heat of yesterday (wish I was with Nigel in the Canary Islands where it’s a little cooler) I made some modifications to the crate.  It now has a Bond style fold down door and you’d expect one of Q’s motorcycles to leap out at any moment.
I’d have been getting on with the OI, but the brake servo promised for last week won’t now arrive until this week.
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July 21st, 2006 at 3:22 pm
No. You’ve lost me there; how can you have to wait for the “brake servo promised for last week”, when you’d already stolen “one of Nigel’s brake servos to fix the emergency”? This implies that in stealing one of Nigel’s brake servos, you had secured his promise that you could steal it, but he had let you down on delivery. Or was it you that let him down on collection?
Images of Malcolm donning black mask, black and red horizontal striped jumper, “SWAG” bag on his back, sneaking out from his front door to his barn in the dead of night and surreptitiously detaching a brake servo from ROJ, while no-one’s looking…
Sneak back to house, have a cup of tea, nervously smoke a cigarette, and hope that no-one saw…
Nee-nawww, Nee-nawww, Nee-nawww… Heavy knock on the door (which falls off its hinges…)
“Ello, ‘ello ‘ello; what’s all this then; up to no good again are we?â€
“Honest, guv’, wasn’t me, it was ‘im!†Looks around; no-one there… Oops!
“Ow about a cup of tea officer?â€
“Alright then, but I’ll still have to arrest you.â€
(Nigel arrives off the 00.35 St Pancras to Bedford…)
“Hello Malcolmâ€, he says to the Police officer.
“Are you responsible for this, by any chance?â€, says the policeman.
“Yes it’s a bit of an obsessionâ€, says Nigel.
“That’s as good as a confession for me†says the policeman. He snaps the cuffs, dunks another digestive in the tea and takes Nigel off for a night in the station.
Malcolm fits servo to Oscar India, and accuses Nigel (who now has a criminal record) of welching on a deal involving a servo…
July 21st, 2006 at 7:59 pm
I like that picture of events, but sadly it all happened like this:
The brake servo which had appeared to be fine up until the day before the MOT suddenly started letting air into the system (which is odd as normally they let fluid out).
I stole one of Nigel’s servos while avoiding the attention of the law (cunningly I’d put gaffer tape over ’swag’ on the bag).
Fitted Nigel’s servo but it leaked fluid. Quite late at night at that point so I gave up and drank beer instead.
Ordered a reconditioned brake servo from Puddleduck who seemed to suggest it might arrive in a couple of days, but a phone call the following week revealed that the couple of days was merely the transit time to me once they’d received the bit themselves.
Today I fitted the shiny new looking reconditioned servo which appears not to let air in nor fluid out. If I ever get any actual vacuum from the engine I’ll be able to see if it works the brakes too.
I returned Nigel’s servo and nicked his crate instead.
August 2nd, 2006 at 11:10 am
Renault ‘racing colours’!!??
..oh yes of course..
The Slow Car Racing Team…
I’m really pleased you found a use for the crate Malc.