cumbrianvoyager.bsky.social
@cumbrianvoyager.bsky.social
Chief Engineer, hammer hurler, wizard and test pilot at Area61. Sometimes takes landscape pictures when not inventing and making things nobody understands.
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It's been like old times at Bluebird Project headquarters today. Skin pins & rivets in our Ford RS200 chassis. 😊

#bluebird #RS200 #Ford #rally #restoration #carrestoration
#teamwork
January 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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With talk of an engine going into K7 here's how to do it. There was never any reason to take it out again, of course but hey-ho.

#bluebird #jetengine #teamworkmakesthedreamwork

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Installing The Engine - The Bluebird Project
YouTube video by TheBluebirdProject
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January 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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This week's RS200 video is up. We've been getting bolder still with the resin & making more good progress.
Our Aussie cousins tell us that RS stands for rat droppings. Not far wrong at this stage but it's getting better.

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Ford RS200 Rally Icon Restoration Part 15
YouTube video by TheBluebirdProject
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January 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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All that remained of our beautifully crafted canopy after it went airborne & destroyed itself on K7's first fast run. In trying to fix one problem we inadvertently created another & blew the canopy off. We never got to chase that gremlin out.

#bluebird #teamwork #restoration
February 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Ems is taking on the challenge of her first EVER drive of a car being in the RS200 at Elvington.
She has only 3 weeks to master it whilst not being allowed to drive a car, at all. We have a plan.

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Taming a rally monster in just three weeks. Can Emily do it? #Ford RS200
YouTube video by TheBluebirdProject
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February 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Back in the day when I owned trucks, Scania’s were the machine to have. But now I would have been buying the brilliant Volvo FH460 I-Save Aero had I not sold my outfit a long time ago.
January 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A couple of photos from our cold snap last week in the Lakes.
January 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The last truck I drove. The sensational Volvo FH750.
January 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM