A week after Buxton

A relatively successful trip was had heading up to The Pavilion in Buxton for the H&H Classic Auction last week. We came away with 4 cars ourselves and a 5th made it’s way down on our car transporter for some work required by our team in the workshop.

The car’s have now arrived with us and unfortunately, as is often the case, it is not as plain sailing as we would have liked. It is very difficult to look at a car in the auction environment and be 100% certain that you have bought right. We are certainly not disappointed with our purchases but more work is required on all of them than first thought which is a real pity. It is often the seller who refrains for telling the full story and we pride ourselves on our honesty so it is always a bit of a blow when cars arrive out of fuel, who with no reverse gears, not running on full power. None of the work is too much for us but it eats into valuable time in our workshops.

On a plus note, the team at H&H were as brilliant as always, I had a wonderful time. Channel 4 were there filming some bits so I might be on TV in the near future and I met with Lewis from The Crescent, Buxton who took me on a tour of the hotel and spa. We put our heads together to come up with some great ideas that we will now look to work on in 2025.