Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[FUJIMO]

[FUJIMO]

[FUJIMO]

[jackiewilson]

Have some serious sh-t for you to enhance Fuji !!!!! Remember the three RIVAS I TOLD YOU ABOUT -

YOU AINT NEVER GONNA BELIEVE THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Was asked if it was really necessary to go back in the shop after dinner on a Saturday night. You are over ninety . I dont need reminding .

[FUJIMO]

...agreed, no reminding needed for you j.w. ...out of pure coincidence on that subject, i just learned tonight that my brother-inlaw, who is only in his seventies, and a vietnam veteran, has to be admitted & looked after, by the veterans administration here, due to his advanced dimentia symptoms. sad. very, very funny guy. really like him. his name is jack...

[GENE LANHAM]

[jackiewilson]

Was nearly ten years ago when the only medium i had was firewood—even the motors — but i did try to find HARDWOOD . Should finish all three this next week , FINALLY !

[FUJIMO]

[FUJIMO]

[jackiewilson]

I do try not to show stuff thats no where near ready but this ones a bit different. Needed to think outside the box and do something a bit more creative ——up to date !!!!!! How would an impressionist or a modern go about showing Italian craftsmanship ???? Then there‘s the presentation —- needed to be new and present day or even futuristic . So I’m giving you a first look at something i have been quietly fernagling for the last cheek or so . Must confess that English oak is the wrong choice for for a „“RIVABBATTE“ —- lets see what transpires ———-​„“MUST DO BETTER“

[jackiewilson]

This is what happens when you have a butterfly mind —-state of the shop close of play Sunday night.

[jackiewilson]

Doesn’t look much for eight hours work does it?? Colour was all wrong —-still is, but im getting there . trick is to get a high lustre polish . It is really tactile.

[jackiewilson]

Change from the usual routine today , going to meet my god daughter Georgina down at THE WITTERINGS . Small village at the end of a peninsula .[Englands answer to cape cod or Martha’s vineyard].
HAVENT clapped eyes on her for damn near thirty years , she buggered off to Australia and got involved with hay burners . Made a life for herself out there . I will post a couple of piccies . It’s a posh late buffet lunch on the beach. Gorgeous day for it ,wall to wall sunshine .
sod all work will get done today, going with Sam and Clive , Should be very interesting !!!!!

[powerabout]

Chatting to an old acquaintance of yours on the weekend, Rory Power, OOD for the Thailand race I just did.

[jackiewilson]

Lovely get together with my god daughter Georgina . Some thirty years since i last saw her . Was only here For two days, flew straight in to Scotland for her brothers wedding ——then a 600 mile trip to sussex for a lunch with me . Flies back to OZ tomorrow crack-o-sparrow . Youngsters today do pack a quart into a pint pot .
Listening to her stories of delays and officialdom does not exactly make me yearn to travel again just yet. Give it a few months to settle down before i even start to think of a vacation.