A Nice Little Story (Mk1 Consul)

[ChimpofDarkness]

I'm new over here as I'm a bit of a TVR nut these days, but this amazing Ford related thing just happened to me; and I just had to share the story with you.

It all starts with me slowly trying to add some snaps of my old restoration projects to my FB page.

Then I found this FB group discussing old Ford Zephyrs, Consuls & Zodiacs, which was my specialist subject when I was playing with cars for a living.

I do something completely un-car related for a living these days

Then this other Ford specialist I knew years ago contacts me out of the blue, and we get chatting about various cars we restored & where they are now.

Then I posted some grainy old scanned prints of a Mk1 Consul convertible I restored & sent to Germany back in the early 1990's, and he said:

"I know that car, the same guys still have it, & they brought it back to the UK a while ago for me to complete a few small jobs"

Then he sends this photo of the car at his workshop, can you believe it!!!



Almost exactly 20 years ago to the day I completed the restoration and she still looks perfect.

Sorry, but all this just happened to me & I needed to share it, hopefully some of you will get how I'm feeling?

It's like seeing an old friend again & I'm so happy

Thanks for listening folks, Dave.

[ChimpofDarkness]

Right, I've moved it to the Ford form.

Sorry folks, I was just super over excited there for a minute.

Hopefully some of my TVR mates like the story anyway?

Apologies, Dave.

[Jon Brown]

Thats pretty cool, and a testiment to your work as well

[Quietlybonkers]

Its a lovely car and a lovely story - and that car reminds me of my childhood and our Standard Vanguard, not that it was either red or convertible, but of that era.

I wonder if we could get whitewall 888s for our Chimaeras?

[ChimpofDarkness]

Right, even though I duplicated the post over here, it looks like the moderators saw fit to remove the one on the TVR forum.

Thank you to my nice TVR mates who enjoyed the story before it got shifted

I hope the Ford people like it too?

Dave.