It all started one Saturday morning! An early morning drive to Derby to pick up my bargain basement Sinclair C5!
My first thoughts were "What a mess!". It was filthy, stained, scratched, had some kind of "gum" all over the seat, deep scratches across the body, black stains, but I finally had a C5 and that was the most important bit!
I was lucky enough to get a phone call from Chas, who lives nearby and he invited me up to his house to give me the quick start guide on c5 ownership, and was made incredibly welcome by him and his wife. He has a fantastic collection, showed me how to strip down my C5 for cleaning, and sold me some spare parts! I am incredibly grateful to Chas for his time and generosity, so hopefully if he comes to the MK run, I can at least buy him some lunch!
So, got home and set about the cleaning..
This pic almost shows the level of filth on the c5 tub, its horrible. It's actually so horrible that I have not even sat in the C5 at all, just dragged it around!
More dirt...
This pic is proof that nearly all C5's photograph well, even those covered in crud!
So, me and my son luke set about giving it a good old scrub
and scrubbed..
and scrubbed some more..
and Luke scrubbed some more!
The front of the C5 is quite badly scratched..
but it started to clean up
You can see the right hand side of the C5 horribly scratched (this is after a VERY hard scrub!)
And the left hand side, stained and scratched
Inside, horrible. dirty mess
After a while..
The rear wheel arch is looking very nice!
The seat almost looks like I would want to sit in it!
The nose came up quite well, but still needs a lot of TLC
Right hand rear wheel arch beginning to look like new!
Inside the boot was filthy.
The frame, after a quick brush down:
So, now we are getting somewhere.
New tyres, brake cables and wheel cover inserts are on their way to me, and tomorrow evening should see another round of cleaning.
Stay tuned...