Good friend David Harvey was visiting from Derby this weekend. When Dave visits it's normally to help work on one of my cars, but there was nothing much to do this weekend, so we were just having a chilled out time.
We were both up and about early Saturday morning, so we decided to visit the breakfast meet at Billericay. I decided to take my Green Cortina today to make sure the electric fuel pump upgrade that I had done the day before was all in order.
Our other friend Gavin was there in his Triumph, Keith was also there in his Mk1 Lotus Cortina and Martin was there in his Mk1 Cortina GT. There was a good selection of cars there and we sampled the breakfast there too, which was, I have to say, very good. This will be a good meet in the summer.
Around lunch time we made a move, but instead of going home, we decided to pay a visit to Burton Engineering in Gants Hill. (Or Burton Power Products as they're known now) Dave had never been there before and I had other business with them.
When I had purchased a set of Magnecor plug leads from them a few weeks previous, they arrived when they should have done and I had fitted them to the car. However, a few weeks later, another set arrived through the post which I hadn't ordered. Obviously an error has been made somewhere and these are not cheap, (£140) so being the decent and honest chappie that I am, I returned them to them. Now, a few people may think I'm daft giving them back, but Burton's have always been very helpful to me whenever I've been there, so I could see no reason to take advantage of their mistake.
They were very grateful and appreciated my honesty. In fact they were so grateful that when I bought a new set of windscreen wipers for my Cortina, they gave me them for nothing.
So, all in all, it was a very good day out and included a bit of a feel good factor by doing, and receiving a good deed. ☺
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