I knocked off work around 3pm today and being a Saturday afternoon all the other factories had closed up and gone, so with little traffic I thought, "well why the hell not" so I jumped into Monty, hit the old starter botton with the left foot and instantly he sprang into life with all the normal body rattles and squeeks one would expect from a car looking as original as this old banger!!.
But wait!I thought, wheres my bloody camera?, so I get out, grab that and soon we are rolling out the workshop door, into the sun and headed over the road to where the "JB" or "Brownie" as some call him operates his tyre business from on the opposite corner to my signshop and he has a big vacant block on the corner where trucks can park and today there were none parked up, so we made the most of doing a good few laps around the bumpy, dirty block with quite a few deep puddles in there from all the bloody rain last night.....
Here is a little peice of footage of it, and please excuse the quality as it is shot only using my small camera not a video camera and I am trying to hold that and turn the corners with the shity wooden wheel....Thanks
In 1969 dad rescued this 1928 Chevrolet (10,485 original miles) off a Gippsland farm, he then stored it for a further 41 yrs in his workshop. A few months before dad was suddenly diagnosed with "AML Leukemia" in May of 2010 we spoke about getting it out of the shed, dads said "We'll get it running but we're not painting it all fancy". Sadly this never happened as dad passed away after a 6 week battle on 14th June 2010, I owe dad this restoration so here is my story of "Monty" our 1928 Chevrolet.
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