14/11/2018 0 Comments PKE807MAs you might have seen on the Facebook page, PKE807M was swapped around for PKE809M to allow a few tasks to be undertaken and she's undercover - for now. Dramas depending, I'm hoping this work will be undertaken in the new few months.
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31/10/2018 0 Comments The Adventures Of Muffin!I'm slowly getting around to updating the picture galleries. The latest one I've added is for Muff The Bus.
Visit the new page HERE! 24/10/2018 0 Comments New PKE807M Gallery.I must admit I do a pretty rotten job of keeping this website updated. It's always a problem when you're either working on the vehicles or attending shows, time updating a website tends to be not forthcoming. Various people have offered to run the websites over the years but it's just never happened for reasons unknown. So I'm going to be strict with myself and try to get an update in at least once a month.
Also I hope to update the 'Pictures' pages with more galleries on the restoration of the buses. I've started by adding a long needed update on the PKE807M picture gallery. If you click here you can see it! 22/10/2018 0 Comments Happy Anniversary Darling!Who could believe that this website it ten years old today! That's right, on 22nd October 2008 I published the first news item which eventually morphed into the Bus Blog you read today.
That news item was about 7681 a bus I'm pleased to say is still with me - despite being a perpetual pain in the arse! Since then she's been joined by 5807, 7041, 7656, 5137 & 5809 as well as 40301 and the cabs. In those original days she was in company with FTU392T an ex Crosville Leyland engined Bristol VR who was later sold so I could rescue MLK550L - now Paul's beloved DMS550. With 7681 still off the road and FTU long gone the obvious choice was to do something that involved DMS550 this weekend. Paul and myself included a little run out with some work on B124BOO - his Leyland Tiger coach- to mark the 10th Anniversary. 15/9/2018 0 Comments Website Pictures Added.It's been a really busy but rewarding season this year. It's been really nice to have been back into the swing of it all and get at least two of my old girls out to shows. The pictures from all of these have now been uploaded to the sister Southern Counties Omnibus Collection site.
southerncountiesomnibus.weebly.com/events.html 8/8/2018 0 Comments Weald Of Kent 2018On 4th & 5th August MFN41R visited the Weald Of Kent Steam Fair. This is one of my favourite shows of the season and so far (touch wood!) we've never had bad weather for this weekend. This was also Muffin's first visit to this show and her longest journey since I got her in 2011. On the way there I stopped off in Pencester Road in Dover - somewhere I don't think Muff has visited since 1993/4. On the way back I stopped for pictures at Wingham Church.
21/7/2018 0 Comments Ten Years On...I've just been looking back at the old News Page posts on the website. It's hard to believe I started this website ten years ago this year. In fact the first post on the news page was on 22nd October 2008 with an announcement that SKL681X had passed her MOT - something she'd struggle to do nowadays with her oil leak. By this time I'd owned her for 7 years. Then the news time line travels through the purchases of PKE807M and MLK550L as well as shows at Herne Bay and Chilli Farm in TFN980T and WKO137S, it's almost like reading old diaries. Since then I've certainly learned an awful lot about bus preservation, it's been an interesting learning curve. But if I could do it again would I have done anything different? Well maybe chased a bit harder after certain vehicles that have slipped through my fingers, but probably not. Unfortunately events in 'real' life often interfere with hobbies such as bus preservation and there's no doubt the buses and myself have been through some good times and some bad times together which is probably why they're not as restored as I'd like them to be! They might not be restored to everyone's standard but the main thing is they're safe and still in the UK (unlike many other VRs.).
So maybe in October I might commemorate the 10th anniversary of the website with a little run out around east Kent (or East Kent) in PKE809M and look forward to the next ten years. 14/7/2018 0 Comments MFN41R Goes Racing!Well no, not quite but Rosiy, Paul, Muffin the Bus and myself did visit Lydden Hill Race Track in Kent for the Classic Weekend. Lots of old blasts from the pasts here with classic Fords and BMC cars as well as the Group B Rally cars from the 1980's.
7041 was nearly back on her old stomping ground having been based in Folkestone all of her life and the Lydden valley would have been on one of her runs from Folkestone to Canterbury. 1/7/2018 0 Comments Back To Green...Work continues on PKE809M with the upper deck refurbishment nearly finished. I think if I see another seat frame that needs repainting I'll scream! Fortunately the lower deck is a lot tidier and doesn't need that much attention. Rosiy has been hard at work scrubbing all of the seats and the results are amazing. 45 years worth of grime, nicotine and muck vanished before our eyes! Took advantage of the hot day today too and took a scraper to 809's battered exterior paint. After an hour of sitting in the sun, the paint becomes quite easy to get off. It's very similar to wallpaper stripping if I'm honest. Underneath the grey and red was the NBC green which looked very bright in the sunshine.
18/6/2018 0 Comments SKL681X VideoHere's a new YouTube video of 7681 being reversed into her new space after being dropped off. |
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