how did you put away the weekend?

[LOCO XP]

Perhaps this thread will be a flop, but ya can't blame a guy for trying. Tell us a story about a good car-related weekend, pics of course being a bonus....

I'll start

So, I had a dilemma. The weekend was fast approaching, weather being non-conducive to pouring concrete for my shed etc etc..... What can I do? After several weekends disappearing and being disappointing because of the old adage "the best laid plans of mice and men...." and my distant relative Murphy and his laws.... So, I decided, stuff it, I'm not planning anything, I'll make sure that there's enough beer in the fridge, meat for the BBQ, fuel in the old rockets, and whatever happens, happens.

So, after sitting idle for months, in the rain and searing sun, thought, geez, time to do something about those pesky thermo fans. So I got the XP out for a run, and bumped into my mate who was still sorting niggling issues with his Top 60 HT, this time was putting some more mufflers in so that the 5-0 would give him a little less trouble



..... I told the missus I had to do some work on the ute, think that was about 3pm (had to work the Saturday morning shift).... so by 12am, the fuse was replaced, I had, well lets call it a couple of drinks, and a good chat with the boys, and decided to leave the ute where we were working. It was a good night, but it was a slow start on Sunday morning.

9am Sunday, got a call "we're going to pick up that Torana, it's in Deni"..... My mate had been working on an LC GTR for several years, but after doing a lotta work, it was later revealed it was a cut-and-shut..... it had tags, was genuine, but still, he would never be 100% happy with it. So he got rid of it, still came out in front, and was well on his way to acquiring a more suitable Torana to work on. And it turned up about 12 months ago. Today, it finally was secured, with 2 spare shells, 4 or 5 spare sets of doors, etc etc.... we will get back to that....

So, road trip to Deni, a couple of beers, got to the pickup point, noticed an Impala out front (a job for one of the blokes customers "It's a POS, probably only worth $500"), nobody there, but within a minute, the seller was there on his matte black Harley with apehangers and his son as passenger. Real nice bloke, some kind of affiliation with a well known club, and let's just say he had a few interesting projects, toys and jobs in his shed. Also had one of the best bars that I'd seen in his workshop

Not the Torana that we were picking up, but nice all the same. Got paint?



This wasn't the bike he was riding, he was on the recently acquired bike cos it doesn't want to fall apart whilst trying to keep with the rest of the pack, has good suspensionm, and electric start, unlike this one. But this has won many shows and is hard to get near because of the crowd it draws



A couple of other bikes, this one was offered to my mate a while back, but he declined, and is now kicking himself he wasn't asking much, even with reg and finished



Another job for a customer



And I was rather impressed with this XY



..... anyway, back to the pickup of the Torana. Bermuda Blue, with black and white trim. Oh yeah, LC GTR..... VERY rare colour/trim combination, most likely a special order for a GMH executive, and the Torana club has been hounding and offering ridiculous amounts for it as is.... a bit of work to do, but it's a real good start and the price was right





So that's the story of my weekend of no plans, and it was good.