Friday, July 25, 2014

The king is dead, long live the king !

Yep, I didn't hang around, the old one is gone, and a new one is already filling its space.  Another bargain GTO appeared on Gumtree.  This time its a MK2, so no flippy head lights, and it has a few other issues that need resolving (needs a service, 4 wheel steer is faulty, some paint issues, and a few other things) but it was acquired for the pitiful sum of £500.. cash.  Its crazy you can get a beast like this for such little money.



Note: There is a distinct lack of tree shaped dent in the back :)

This car wasn't bought with the intention of using it for the ScumRun this time, although the price is right, so we can use it as a fall back if necessary.

I will be taking it down to our friends at MitsiArt for them to give it the once over and if it all checks out I will throw some coin at it to get her back up to par.

Gone to the great garage in the sky...

Well, that's it.  The GTO is no more.  MitsiArt (or a man with a trailer on their behalf) came to collect her to strip her for parts today, and so the driveway is now clear.






Wednesday, July 16, 2014

MOVING PICTURES !!!

During the run we had an on-board camera connected to a laptop recording time lapse (4 frames per second) video of the entire trip.  This has been sat on Greggs HDD ever since and not touched.  Finally, I managed to prize it out of his death grip and edit the footage into something meaningful, so here it is in all its glory....


ScumRun 2013 Time-Lapse video from Adrian Bawn on Vimeo.

(Note: It seems I cant embed vimeo videos so just click the link above :) )
Fixed the embeddening - Cabe.