All In One Sat-Car-Day!

Car 1

Started my weekend with cheecheongfun breakfast with TFF. I was supposed to return her luggage which I borrowed but never got the chance to use it.

At the car park, I tied yellow ribbons to her SUV… in support……




Car 2

Went to see the progress of the Fiat.
I have to say I am very happy with the progress. It has been a while and the progress slow, but I very happy and impressed with David Joseph’s resourcefulness. Without David, the restoration cold be extremely challenging. He knows the car inside out and the best thing is – he knows where to source for scarce original spare parts.



Naturally, being Mr. Fussy, I still have a list of thing to be done such as re-chroming and other esthetics…



The mechanical and suspensions works are completed. I actually drove the car around the workshop and very happy with the job done. Suspensions are a lot smoother and less noise from the engine.

David informed me, it’s going to take another month. I am very okay with is.



First, I am not in hurry, I CAN wait – as long as the work done is up to my level of satisfaction and they are pretty much aware of my high expectation.

Secondly, since it takes another month - it gives me a comfortable room to manage my cash flow: the art of stretching payments.



RS got me a bunch of material samples with variety of colors to be considered for the upholstery.

The color of body is BLANKO white. I haven’t decided which color or combination of colors to be used to do up the interior. RS gave his professional advise not to use more than 2 colors. I can agree to that!

I am considering:

Material : synthetic leather – cheaper (a lot) and easy maintenance. The original material is PVC – which is rather ugly.

Colors: predominantly white leather-like with some red.

I trust RS’s taste.





Car 3



David (as enhusiatic as ever) : Did you see the GT outside?

M: Yeah! I thought it was a Corvette Stingray (in Malaysia? You gotta be kidding!)

It’s an OPEL GT – 1969 model only 1 unit in South East Asia – something that we have Jakarta doesn’t.. ha! ha!



Mint condition, left hand drive.









The headlights do not flip up. Instead they turned over to reveal the lights. You have to see yourself how the mechanic works to appreciate it.



Car 4

KW’s neighbour has this classic 1959 Porsche 356A.




Simply sexy! I love it!


p/s
Red Planet, if you read this, sorry to bore you.