Renault 1929 RY1 Monasix

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Hello Ivan

How nice to hear from you again.

If I was doing all this for profit I would have stopped even before I started 50 years ago. But the good news is that a very big van has just driven off having deposited an extremely heavy box on my drive. Less than a week ago it was sitting in my friend Jean-Paul's garden in South-eastern France. My reward is the number of new people I get to meet through each restoration. Like minded enthusiastic people from all around the world! That is worth far more to me than any profit I may gain could ever be.

There are still just a few people around who do not count everything in terms of Dollars and Cents. I like to think that I am one of them. I may never have a lot of money but I sure have a lot of friends and even better I have a huge store of memories.

Bj.

5-4-2015

Hi Ian

In some ways you are right but I must be a supreme masochist. The excitement generated by the arrival of the delivery and the pleasure in unpacking the crate more than out weighs the pain. That and knowing that at last I can do something constructive on the Renault.

What did hurt was discovering the engine from NZ, which cost almost as much, was a total dud and basically only good for scrap. The cost of buying and shipping the engine from France was less than trying to make any sort of purse let alone a silk one out of that particular sow's ear. I guess the only satisfaction in that deal was knowing that I had made one rotten KIWI happy and helped him earn another 100 Bonus Points. 

For those who do not know, there is a theory that Kiwis (People from New Zealand) earn 100 bonus points every time the manage to DUD an Aussie. For those who do not understand the term DUD it is a synonym for Cheat or Rob. 

It is like them calling one brand of their Export Cheese "MAINLAND Cheese" implying that New Zealand is the "Main land" and Australia is the "Third Island".

Bj.

5-7-2015

Thank You John

The box opened up after removing about 100 screws. Everythingwas really well packed in and secured The Dynastart which weighs over 20 kgs was packed down at the bottom of the box well strapped down. Everything there including all the loose nuts etc tied into a plastic bag and then taped up in a cardboard box. I have still to finish unpacking the engine as I have been busy as co-organiser of a VSCC One Day Trial (Competitive Tour). Once that is out of the way I can finish unpacking the motor and start stripping it down