I have noticed this place (lake-view) before...Is this you?
Yes, that's me. I'd all but forgotten all about the car in that video clip.
It has the unique distinction of being the only car where all my driving has been captured on video - i.e. that 3 point turn on the forecourt was the only time I ever used the car. I sold it soon after that footage was filmed.
The car (WVT) was later advertised in Driving Force for months, maybe years as an unfinished project.
I am glad I saw that footage because for years I had a horrible feeling that car had a set of Rostyle wheels on it when I sold it but I can see that it just had the S-trims on ordinary wheels.
Thanks for the kind words about the videos - I don't do it as often as I used to but I might put the GoPro on soon - the weather is nice at the moment on the Isle of Man.
I use Lake View garage for all the work on my Rover 3500S too - Tom really is a wizard with these cars.
When I was last there I noticed this great picture on the wall, of the garage back in the early 60s when it had petrol pumps. Thought you might like to see it.
Just love pictures of old garage forecourts - in the days when they really had character.View attachment 10370
Tom cares about his customers - I think that's what makes the difference.
He kindly scanned some of the old photos (but by no means all of them) and they are on my Flickr channel, including the example you showed with the Austin Healey.
So, while Roger the Bodger was busy rectifying this "unacceptable" patch of rust he didn't manage to even get all of it out in his rush to stuff up your paint work and lighten your pocket?? Or, is corrosion on the Isle so bad it started fizzing on the bit adjacent to the door shut after the repair?
I'm not sure to be honest - maybe a bit of both?
I can manage the bad weather - I have plenty of garage space in Douglas - but the lack of skills for keeping the cars fit and well might well bring my Manx adventure to a premature end - for instance Hildegarde is stranded at my home with a leaking fuel pump and I am struggling to get anyone decent to come and sort it - if it were any other fluid (except maybe brake fluid) I would have a go at this myself.