Good News, Huey is alive and well and living in de-humidified luxury in Brampton, Cumbria.
I bought the car in Montrose a couple of months ago (co-incidentally the place of my birth 60 years ago!) and only now, am I getting around to registering it with the TR club. I haven't yet completed the full registration of Huey, as the log book is in Cumbria and I am in Liverpool.
Like you, I am hooked on the car. My eldest brother and I went for a test drive late one evening in early September. We fired the car up, looked at each other and broke into ear to ear grins. I drove it through the Mersey tunnel and described it like a WW2 Spitfire on full attack. I have never driven a car with such a sound. We were out marshalling on the Roger Albert Clark rally last weekend and even the sound of the Stratos in the snow of Keilder was struggling to eclipse Huey. Since September I have done a few hundred adrenalin fuelled miles in the car, before only recently parking it up for the Winter.
My initial intentions were to remove everything and bare metal spray the tub. I already own a Froggie and various other projects which I have been working on over the past year. My lifetime friend who owns the garage in Brampton had a horrendous accident just over a year ago and having been made redundant, I travelled up to look after the garage whilst he recovered in hospital. A year later and I am still there indulging in my passion for restoring classic British cars. I have just finished my web site and that will tell you a little bit of what I am about. I hope you don't mind but I have linked your fantastic You Tube clip into my spiel about Huey. Level 42 seems to be somehow just right for the car, the clip and the nostalgia of your video.
I can be found on www.ericneilritchie.co.uk
As I have said, my thoughts are really still to return Huey to "concours" condition as it is such a great basis to start from. Yes there is rust patches on the panels, but they are largely surface rust. The car is structurally sound and the excellent basis for a full rebuild. One of the reasons that the man in Montrose sold the car is that he lost his garage and the car was parked in the street. The interior needs re-upholstering, but when you have the top down and are blasting along with the incredible sound of these exhausts, who is looking at the carpets! If I do fully resore Huey, my son and I plan to drive it to Monza for the 2011 Grand Prix.
I assure you that Huey is much admired and is a credit to all who have looked after him so well in his former life.
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Hi Peter,
Good News, Huey is alive and well and living in de-humidified luxury in Brampton, Cumbria.
I bought the car in Montrose a couple of months ago (co-incidentally the place of my birth 60 years ago!) and only now, am I getting around to registering it with the TR club. I haven't yet completed the full registration of Huey, as the log book is in Cumbria and I am in Liverpool.
Like you, I am hooked on the car. My eldest brother and I went for a test drive late one evening in early September. We fired the car up, looked at each other and broke into ear to ear grins. I drove it through the Mersey tunnel and described it like a WW2 Spitfire on full attack. I have never driven a car with such a sound. We were out marshalling on the Roger Albert Clark rally last weekend and even the sound of the Stratos in the snow of Keilder was struggling to eclipse Huey. Since September I have done a few hundred adrenalin fuelled miles in the car, before only recently parking it up for the Winter.
My initial intentions were to remove everything and bare metal spray the tub. I already own a Froggie and various other projects which I have been working on over the past year. My lifetime friend who owns the garage in Brampton had a horrendous accident just over a year ago and having been made redundant, I travelled up to look after the garage whilst he recovered in hospital. A year later and I am still there indulging in my passion for restoring classic British cars. I have just finished my web site and that will tell you a little bit of what I am about. I hope you don't mind but I have linked your fantastic You Tube clip into my spiel about Huey. Level 42 seems to be somehow just right for the car, the clip and the nostalgia of your video.
I can be found on www.ericneilritchie.co.uk
As I have said, my thoughts are really still to return Huey to "concours" condition as it is such a great basis to start from. Yes there is rust patches on the panels, but they are largely surface rust. The car is structurally sound and the excellent basis for a full rebuild. One of the reasons that the man in Montrose sold the car is that he lost his garage and the car was parked in the street. The interior needs re-upholstering, but when you have the top down and are blasting along with the incredible sound of these exhausts, who is looking at the carpets! If I do fully resore Huey, my son and I plan to drive it to Monza for the 2011 Grand Prix.
I assure you that Huey is much admired and is a credit to all who have looked after him so well in his former life.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Eric Ritchie.