Nigel Mansell eat your heart out.........

For about half an hour last Friday I was let loose on the Grand Prix circuit at Brands Hatch, with an Airstream of course.

Was a real thrill as my escort dropped back and let me lose to put the pedal to the metal.

I then  parked up and waited for the crew to arrive for the shoot.




All good fun......

Then early this week it my was turn to take the role of an escort for a delivery down to London Town -

Selection of Airstream dealer tags

there's a big ship in town......

When I lived in the West Village every so often I'd see the QE2 arrive into town on the Hudson river, whilst out jogging (gosh, did i say jogging!). This was always a site worth stopping for!

The QM2 might be a tad newer but still it brings the same feeling of excitement, this is the second time I've seen her docked in Southampton -

Never one to miss an opportunity and got a bit of video footage -

And finally another hard to find trailer, tandem axle ohio overlander which is my tow for tomorrow morning -

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny

 I had a last minute booking with Professor Steven Hawkins and the discovery channel.

Wet, cold and empty, was like being by the sea in mid winter.

All I needed to do was setup which left me plently of time to meet with clients and also my catering equipment suppliers based close by, who I named the burger van after for the shoot -

My favorite -

Police working late shift -

Filming complete it was time to pack up and head towards home, was a long day -

Davis Products refrigerator face lift model

Nice little fridge in need of a little TLC

A little grease to keep springs working smooth -

Nice font

Quick blast and a power with blow dry -

Inside houses a more modern energy efficient cooling equipment -

Elsewhere in the Old Dairy there is no place to hide as some of the toughest Aluminium gets scrubbed up-

interest in vintage is on the up.....

This month Riga Latvia of all places is top of my list of 'average time per user' spent on my site.

Hello lativa, where ever you are, who ever you are!

In the states, so far this year CA and TX are the hot spots in Vintage Airstream interest with all 52 states showing interest in vintageairstreams.co.uk ....

Thank google for analytics....

my first spartan, by sam harkness aged 42

1955, spartan imperial mansion, 43 foot long - 

picking this lady up and dropping her off was always going to be logistically and horizontally challenging but on the flip side potentially rewarding.

first ups, i needed a wrecking co to get her out of the mud and get some new rubber on those split rims for the journey. Hovis Truck Service fitted the bill, as not many folks like to touch the smaller split rims -

already late evening Hovis held the trailer over night and we hoped to be on the road to port early in the morning.

but a sudden major pile up on the motorway meant we no longer had priority and Hovis Truck looked like a ghost town while all staff hit the highway. while slightly frustrated, we began to realise how bad the pile up had been.

we decided to hit the breakers and find 5 wheels that would last the journey, easier said than done. but despite the remote location and the weather, we managed to get what was needed and finally hit the road, albeit a little behind schedule.

destination baltimore, full steam ahead.........

opps...

two of those wheels had rusty lug holes and had wore out the threads on the on of the hubs..

time to drop the drum off and find a repair shop plus a new rim!

very frustrating, as it did not mention this could happen in the troubleshooting section of the spartan home owner's manual -

time to hit the road again, baltimore 21222 here we come.....

the rest was photographed but because of the port security we are unable to share the photos with you :-) ....

then came southampton, because of towing regulations, we drafted in some help  -

then a little more help to get this old lady to bed after a long journey east -

well, what a journey.......

the funny thing is 'it has only just begun'

stay tunned, my next one involves a newspaper interview int he mid west......