Transporting early, light cars
Saturday, March 20th, 2010This shows my method of strapping a veteran car to a trailer or transporter without risking damage to axles, wheels or paintwork.
A guide to 6HP Rover cars
This shows my method of strapping a veteran car to a trailer or transporter without risking damage to axles, wheels or paintwork.
Some advice for anyone contemplating restoring a Rover 6hp, based on my experience of completely rebuilding car and on my many years of experience in maintaining, restoring and adapting a wide variety of machinery.
A description of how I made sure that my brakes would work reliably, and my opinions about where modifications may be necessary in the interests of safety on the road.
Published in the Gazette of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, April 2008
How I turned down a new bearing to replace an obsolete one
Published in the Gazette of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, June 2003
David Bliss continues the story of his restoration of a 1906 Rover 6hp, which began in the December issue. Some useful insights to anyone who has to have parts made from scratch!
Published in Freewheel, April 2005
This gives further details of the restoration I carried out on the car and mentions some of the excursions we made on the car in 2004
Published in the Rover Sports Registers Magazine ‘Freewheel’, December 2004.
This is an account of my early dealings with DL 126 many years ago, and some of the problems I encountered when I bought the car in 1998 and carried out a major restoration on it.
First published in the Gazette of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, December 2001.