Fastidious as charged Peter.
Perhaps I should explain the extra furniture attached to the fire wall.
My little MOG is something of a tribute car to my Gran Dad, my father and family. Gran Dad was a mechanic who ran garages around Essex in the early 1900s. I have his original
Special Certificate of Mechanical Competency awarded by the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland dated 1908.
The Club later became the
RAC and that is why I have a vintage RAC badge (circa 1930) on the front of my car.
Gran Dad immigrated to Australia mid 1920s, started a very successful engineering business and expanded his passion for cars. The oil can would have sat on the shelf of his garage alongside his “Sunday” car – a
1926, Type 40 Bugatti. G’ Dad bought the car in Australia in 1936 and kept it in pristine condition (fastidious you see) until his death in 1952.
This original Bugatti was then pushed into the garage, put up on blocks (cranked over occasionally) then sold in 1977. That now explains the Bugatti owners badge on the rear of my MOG.
The oil can passed to my Dad then to me. It has great sentimental value.
The RAC plaque on the firewall I kept from my 1990 London to Brighton run in an
1896 Peugeot owned by West Australian Peter Briggs at the time.
The tyre pressure gauge belonged to my father who was fastidious with tyres on all his cars. After it had been sitting at the bottom of my tool box for the last 20 odd years I thought it could make a reappearance.
The green LED torch was a recent Father’s Day gift from my son.
Crikey mate! Now you have identified yourself as a "Fastidious Owner". Tyre pressure gauge, oil can and torch all mounted on a stainless plate together with the RAC plate!
You must be trying to live up to your reputation as "A Morgan Identified Fastidious Owner..."
