News
in (more or less) descending time order.
Photo credits : New
World Motorsport Paul
Cherry Peter
May Michaela
Greene juice
photography
Record Sales
It`s been a busy old time
down on the farm. We`ve continued to enjoy record sales. In our financial
quarter to the end of January - always our quietest, we trebled last years
figures! At the moment the success of the Internet site means some cars are
being sold less than 48 hours after arriving with us and happily the trend of
customers returning or recommending friends use us is increasing. Thank you all
very much.
In the press
We
have had quite a bit of press and media coverage over the past few months as
well. Classic and Sports Car did a 6 page spread on the Ferrari Testarossa (in
stock) and the Lamborghini Countach (sold) for their December issue. We had half
a day at the testing circuit near Bracknell putting the cars through their paces
for the camera. It`s a hell of a job but someone`s got to do it! The miserable
old gits did promise us photos from the shoot but they never materialised, in
fact we even had to go out and buy our own copy of the mag. What a tight arsed
bunch.
In the bookshop
We
did send a silver 911 Turbo (930 VTO), off to Midsummer books in London for a
photo shoot with an American supercar book (they were supposed to forward prints
which never materialised), keep an eye out for the car in your bookshelves and
let me know if you spot the car! Stop press - car back in stock.
On the telly
Channel
4 popped round at the end of last year and spent a day and a half filming a
piece on the 911 SC. Mike Brewer hosted the item and was a lovely man in spite
of trying to snog Sharon - still when you`re that ugly you`ve got to grab it
when you can! Keep an eye out for Deals on Wheels some time in early May.
Rummaging around a scrapy
Our noble leader has applied to go on channel
4`s Scrapheap challenge. The Sunday evening show where the teams have to make
various vehicles, weapons or civil structures using the contents of a scrap yard
and a few tools. An application video is winging it`s way to the production
company as we go to press so fingers crossed and we might see Henry getting his
hands dirty on national T.V.
They found a body in the back of one of our cars
We are always sending cars off for use on the
telly. That was our blue 911 that Jacko used in "Babes in the Wood"
when he was moonlighting from brush strokes - Denise van Outen may have sat in
the passenger seat in one shot - Henry took it out of the car and has it under
lock and key in his private collection. The 911 turbo cabriolet. used in
"The Wonderful You" was ours and we`ve just had a red 944S back from a
shoot so if you see one on the telly with a blood splattered villain inside
that`s ours. The phone call normally goes something along the lines of, "Hello
Henry, we need a car that will take a dead body in the boot, something sporty
like a Be Em, ideally in black. Have you got anything in stock that would do -
we need it for three days." If anyone ever bugged our phone
lines we`d be arrested for sure.
