11/09/10 (12 hours)

The alarm went off at 0445 this morning and I wearily got into my car and started the 280 mile journey down to the depths of Cornwall to pick up this C Type. Now bearing in mind I had only seen pictures of this car I was quite excited to finally be picking it up, it was just a shame it wan’t a bit closer! When I arrived I met Chris Johns, the son of the owner of this car and we went straight to look at it, I hadn’t got my hopes up that it would be an easy job getting this onto the trailer and it certainly wasn’t!!  As the car had been resting in the same spot for the past 25 years or so there was a certain amount of foliage, frogs and soil to clear! With the assistance of some local manpower we managed to man handle the car trailer up to the C Type Buckler and push it into a position where we could use the winch to pull it up the trailer. On the way down to Cornwall I was thinking that I didn’t really want to move/bend the chassis too much so I could keep it in one piece, having looked at the car I realised I didn’t really need to worry about that as there was not much of the Chassis left! The car had broken its back and was sitting on the floor, along with most of its rusted chassis! We dragged it onto the trailer and tied it down ready for the return leg of my journey. Off I set with leaves and bits flying out of the back of the car, cars were certainly keeping there distance behind me!! After 9 hours of driving today I made it back to my house in London and went straight out to a party I was a little late for, the car would have to wait!

12/09/10 (2 hours)

I had secured a garage to put this car in but after stripping it down today I realise I just need cardboard boxes! The body shell is in a bad way but definitely salvageable with a little elbow grease. The chassis is nonexistent though and definitely beyond saving.  I’m not sure about the ancillaries connected to the chassis as I didn’t get much time to look at them after stripping the body shell off.

19/09/10 (3 hours)

I started dismantling all the extras from the chassis today and surprisingly my restore box is getting fuller! I have finally got the front of this chassis stripped and I'm in the middle of trying to identify which Mark of Buckler it is; at the moment my money is on a Mark V?