Amazing barn find and a journey of discovery

210bhp · Post by **210bhp** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:22 am

Thank you Jarvo for being a pleasure to deal with. We look forward to meeting you in the near future.
It would be great if you could pick up the baton and continue the story of restoration on this thread. I am sure there will be continued worldwide interest.

Oh, and welcome to DDK. Lots of help and advice available on here for you I am sure.

Regards
Mike

Post by **Bootsy** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:28 am

Welcome Jarvo great to have you on board. Looking forward to updates as Eve is reborn!

johnM · Post by **johnM** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:37 am

Hi and welcome. I am sure you will find DDK a friendly place. Look forward tobiour updates.

Kind regards.

Post by **Bootsy** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:39 am

Ps, are you going to Hot Rod it!

MdR · Post by **MdR** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:50 am

Bootsy wrote:Ps, are you going to Hot Rod it!

Gets my vote

Jarvo - A warm welcome.

964RS · Post by **964RS** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:38 pm

Bootsy wrote:Ps, are you going to Hot Rod it!

Mike's first choice is for it to be made into an ST replica I believe

WELCOME JARVO

Please keep the story going here...

Mick Cliff · Post by **Mick Cliff** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:48 am

Welcome Jarvo....

Let me guess...... will Lee be doing the bodywork?

Hope it turns out as well as the discoverers hoped it would

If I've guessed wrong then apologies

murph2309 · Post by **murph2309** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:24 pm

Jarvo - welcome aboard - I think the answer to your question is yes - we'd love to know what happens to this car. And there'll no doubt be a bunch of help and expert eyes if you need or want them.

And demands that you hot rod it too - nice one Bootsy...

R

jarvo1 · Post by **jarvo1** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:34 pm

Gidday folks,

Well Eve certainly looks set to grace this forum for a while longer then!

Apologies for the delay in responding, I'm in LA at the moment with a parts shopping list for the other projects.

To answer your questions in brief:

There are three of us involved in a somewhat loose restoration partnership which has been ticking along for some years. One of them is a 'specialist' and yes his first initial is L. (I was sworn to secrecy but looks like there are detectives amongst you). Myself and (we'll call him M) are wandering vagrants from NZ. Between us there are a half dozen or so projects on the go.

Eve was bought on the spur of the moment over a pint of beer on an I-phone bid.

That's not to say her purchase was ill-considered. We'd followed the forum for ages. But it does mean that there hasn't been much time to seriously think through the options.

Restoration will be carried out in the UK. Once that's done, she may be shipped to NZ, but that's years away from a decision being made.

Most likely, the vehicle will be restored as closely as possible to the state she left the factory as a factory RHD conversion.

We have other cars that would be better suited to 'hot-rod', and one of these days I'm going to have to go and meet this Magnus fella who ironically is located only a few miles away from where I always stay.

It is going to be a while before we have any photos of Eve to share with you. I'm tempted to start another thread to show you the standard of work to be expected. We've got E no.40 in final assembly. Any interest?

Jarvo.

keith fellowes · Post by **keith fellowes** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:38 pm

Any interest?

No, I doubt it!

left4dead · Post by **left4dead** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:42 pm

jarvo1 wrote: I'm tempted to start another thread to show you the standard of work to be expected. We've got E no.40 in final assembly. Any interest?.

Jarvo? Some of us log onto this site like 60 times a day hoping to see a new thread with such content. You bet your bottom dollar we're interested. And photos, we l o v e photos.... Please.

jarvo1 · Post by **jarvo1** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:47 pm

Oh well, ok then. We've been operating below the radar for so long that this is an alien concept..

Give me a few days to return to NZ and dig out a few photos.

Jarvo.

bjmullan · Post by **bjmullan** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:59 pm

Welcome Jarvo, Mike and I look forward to meeting you, M and I over a beer in the near future. Will Moneypenny be coming as well?

left4dead · Post by **left4dead** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:13 pm

bjmullan wrote:I look forward to meeting you, M and I over a beer in the near future. Will Moneypenny be coming as well?

I always loved the cryptic element to this thread and just as I thought it all over a whole new level of cryptic-ness emerges...

bjmullan · Post by **bjmullan** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:11 pm

Eve would like to thank everyone for their support and has made a donation to the £10K for 10 years. After all she was responsible for causing Bootsy lots of headaches and it the least she could do.

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