Ahh... we finally made it. Today was the day of our DVLA inspection in Maidstone. Andy and JJ took the day off work and loaded the old girl, in the rain, onto the car trailer on the back of JJ's DS Safari. They drove to Maidstone, the combined rig so long that they had to steal a coach parking slot at the inspection garage to get parked

In the event, our "inspection" took 5 minutes, and seemd to comprise the bloke checking we had the correct chassis number on our paperwork (although he might have cast an expert eye over us too, to make sure we were as old as we said we were (November 1961)

JJ was rather sore to find, having used half a tank of juice trailering the rig from Walmer to Preston (nr. Canterbury) and over to Maidstone and back, that the inpector guys are actually willing to come out on site and check your car where it stands.

So now, we are Registered, with docs and a registration number coming in the post in a few days. The plan then is for Andy to hand paint some period number plates, we all get our insurances changed to the number plate (rather than the chassis number) and then to get a few English miles on her with a support vehicle, as a "shake down".

There is also the small matter of finding out why (and solving) the dynamo will not put any amps into the battery

The future has always held our dream that one day we drive her to the two towns involved in her original twinning gift-ery, La Chapelle d'Armentieres (in Northern France), and Birchington (North Kent Coast)

Wish us luck

Matt

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