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Community => Marketplace => Topic started by: tizaala on March 26, 2012, 11:49:51 pm

Title: Dennett Gig Restoration Project
Post by: tizaala on March 26, 2012, 11:49:51 pm: Would anyone likes to make me a sensible offer for this poor neglected carriage circa 1800. I found it abandoned in the back of my barn and don't have the time or patience to restore it myself. I think all the metalwork is still there but the woodworm will need a lot of attention. I have also advertised it on eBay.
Pm for any questions you have.

THIS IS NOW SOLD
Title: Re: Dennett Gig Restoration Project
Post by: Polished Arrow on March 27, 2012, 12:12:18 am: Do you reckon it would fit in the back of a LWB high-top Transit van?
Title: Re: Dennett Gig Restoration Project
Post by: Bangbang on March 27, 2012, 05:33:03 am: Looks great...unfortunetly my life is littered with to many unfinished projects..
good luck with your sale. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Dennett Gig Restoration Project
Post by: tizaala on March 27, 2012, 07:43:15 am: Hi Polish Darrow , ( could start a new trend here ) High top long base trani ? give me the internal dimensions and I'll have a bit of a measure for you, I don't know if the shafts undo yet as I haven't cleared all the junk away from it yet. So get yer stick of inches out and tell me what it says.

Just had a measure : overall length 11' 6" width 6' hight 4'6"
Title: Re: Dennett Gig Restoration Project
Post by: tizaala on March 27, 2012, 10:58:42 am: Polished Arrow , have PM'd you.
Title: Re: Dennett Gig Restoration Project
Post by: Polished Arrow on March 27, 2012, 09:30:29 pm: Hi there, Tizzy (zee what I did there?!) :D

I will measure the van tomorrow and see if it will fit, first. I have NO idea what something like this would be worth, but will have a serious think about it if it will fit, and will come back to you. Tomorrow is a very busy day (final-proofing daughter's engineering dissertation, collecting a hen coop from north of Birmingham and out to do a small holding visit as well as normal farm life) so it may be Thursday before I come back to you.

I know that at the very least the doors could be left open (wheels wedged in a stop position before driving off!) and the height would fit, so it is just a matter of width.

I have no use for it at the moment though have thoughts of selling one of my motorbikes and buying a horse to work the farm alongside us.
Title: Re: Dennett Gig Restoration Project
Post by: colliewoman on March 27, 2012, 09:33:32 pm: Make sure said botormike gets an ad on here please ;D
Title: Re: Dennett Gig Restoration Project
Post by: Polished Arrow on March 27, 2012, 10:25:00 pm: Quote from: colliewoman on March 27, 2012, 09:33:32 pm
Make sure said botormike gets an ad on here please ;D

I have two, and have to decide which I could most live without. Probably the Italian - Aprilia Falco - a whizzy, whizzy bike that make you go 'Whoop!' when you ride her :D
Title: Re: Dennett Gig Restoration Project
Post by: tizaala on March 28, 2012, 12:45:36 pm: "I have two, and have to decide which I could most live without. Probably the Italian - a whizzy, whizzy bike that make you go 'Whoop!' when you ride her ":

Where could you find a girl like that ?
Title: Re: Dennett Gig Restoration Project
Post by: Polished Arrow on March 29, 2012, 11:01:57 am: Quote from: tizaala on March 28, 2012, 12:45:36 pm

"I have two, and have to decide which I could most live without. Probably the Italian - a whizzy, whizzy bike that make you go 'Whoop!' when you ride her ":

Where could you find a girl like that ?

Italy? :D