It was part of your childhood, your favourite top trump card, Hot Wheels model and poster on the wall, and no matter how much time passed it always held a special place in your memory. After all these years, though, the time has finally come to get it on the drive and experience that favourite car for real!
The hunt for the right one took weeks, but not a moment of it was a chore; seeing everything from pristine examples to utter rust buckets but then there was the one. No rust and just enough dents and bumps to negotiate a deal… or so you thought.
A smile shining through undermined any attempts to haggle or get the price down and a token couple of percent off was all you mustered, but the drive home proved that every penny you spent was more than worth it and you’d have paid up even if the price were raised.
Then followed years of weekends spent with filler and oily fingers, refurbishing wheels, repainting, and then of course there was the interior. Sending the car away for weeks, agonizing over whether that original interior was the right choice. All this effort and all this toil and then…
It’s finished… not just close but finally complete, all but one little touch. That Hot Wheels model that’s been pride of place on your desk for all these years finally finds its home on the dash, a resplendent model of what you’ve yearned for and earned!
Whilst you’ve driven it a thousand times before, this time it’s different and you know it. The wait for a dry and sunny day was worth it and your favourite road is experienced like never before.
All this joy highlights how this object transcends its inanimate nature.
Now, however, you must part ways with this treasure that you’ve built. It’s a day that’s been coming for a while but today is it and you have the car cleaned and ready to go.
Sure, you could have made a pretty penny on it and passed it on to a collector to sit in a garage for the rest of its life, but as you hand the keys down to the next generation you know it’s the perfect choice.
Here at CWS 4×4 we love to hear of a car being lovingly restored and thankfully we’ve provided genuine manufacturer parts for many a restoration over the years. If you’ve finally made the decision to buy or fix up that project and need a little helping hand getting those hard to find parts then worry not as we are here to help, simply contact us today and we will be more than happy to help.