Rebuilding TRIUMPH HERALD 63 "ORIGINAL CONVERTIBLE" for my son (Spitfire)

[Haroon_Tarar]

bhai ji ................... lesson learnt..................mitti pao...............apna khoon na jalao................show him that you can manage it without him as well.......do it better than him.
world is full of talented people. we just need to find the right person needed. koi help chahiye to hukam karen.

[spitfire]

@CAPSAT.....
I think that they develop this feeling after a good amount of time That they are "IRREPLACEABLE " and nothing can be done without them....probably my guy also had the same thing in his mind....But brother you see ...people die and life goes on........When a person is gone ...some one else comes in to fill the vacuum....I have lost my parents....but living ......one day....our kids will loose us but they wil live INSHALLAH ......So life goes on and on......but when extra efforts/favours are put in for some one and for such a long time ...one feels bad.....After receiving such a return.....He was just a mechanic(which he proved) and a replacement will be there soon .......
But this was a bad shock for a sensitive person like me......
I apologize in the end for wasting your good amount of time reading all this bore stuff......
Will take and share the pics of water damaged cars in the morning.
Regards.

[spitfire]

bhai ji ................... lesson learnt..................mitti pao...............apna khoon na jalao................show him that you can manage it without him as well.......do it better than him.
world is full of talented people. we just need to find the right person needed. koi help chahiye to hukam karen.

Thank you so much dear for your offer ........GOD BLESS YOU.....Watching 2/3 guys working and assessing their hand.....will pick one out of them.....Thanks once again ..

[margallar]

Rehman bhai can you post some pics of the paint damage, maybe it can be fixed. As for your servant dont bother calling him again, ek dafa demag kharab in logo ka ho jaye sahi, apnay aap koh pta nahi kya smajhnay lag jatay hain.

[Teeboyuk]

You are absolutely right brother.......you just talked my heart out.....At our age and stage....and specially like me with a serious health problem (Back surgery and prolapsed discs ) Things become more compromised....and we cant do what we want to and what we used to do in past ........developing a little frustration....I used to do every thing on my cars with my own hands .....enjoying a lot.....even over hauled an engine alone of triumph herald which is still lying with me brand new ....never used after that....
But now Cant open a tight bolt.....
You very Rightly said that it does not matter that for how long these people are with you and they do not realize and appreciate ,What good things you have done for them during that time ......even going out of the way......
Let me Share another thing with you brothers.....which has touched me a lot .....in fact hurted me a lot ......
All you brothers Which are with me During all these restorations.......Must Know "RAEES" a lot of his pics in all these restorations.....
That guy was with me for last 15 years and did not know how to hold a spanner in the beginning ........I taught him every thing in details ...how to overhaul an engine,suspensions and built his confidence by offering him to work on expensive and sensitive vehicles like Land cruiser and BMW even.....
When we Bought this triumph herald.....we were assembling back the red spitfire which was newly painted and dismantled....finding its parts scattered all over the house....
Now herald was parked in the lawn...waiting for restoration....I asked him to leave work of spitfire for 3/4 days and dismantle Triumph herald So that we may Give it to USTAAD Zahid .....a long way to go ...so he may start making different panels of the car and then we shall resume our work on spitfire......I don't know why ,he did not want to disassemble herald.......and was working on the car as if we are going to give it to Kabaria and not for restoration......
I made him Realized that this is for Hassan (my son)as a gift...so please gentle....But he was sort of ignoring and mishandling .......
As you know That there are two clips on top of the windscreen frame for locking the convertible top....When he was opening that I asked him very politely that be care full.....obviously bolts are stuck.....we are working on a 50 years old car....but he again ignored....I asked to spray WD 40 and leave it for a while.....I came in for a while ad when went out ....he was hitting the stuck bolt with a screw driver and a hammer ......Right over the wind screen A missed hit or slipped screw driver and wind screen is gone....
I shouted to stop.....But by that time ...that clip was broken and both bolts as well in the upper frame of the wind screen....
The wind screen frame of these British classic convertibles are very special and fragile .....they put a steel plate inside before punching the outer and inner sides together .....and screws of the convertible clamps are bolted into that plate...So now Both bolts of one side are broken into that plate ....which are extremely difficult to drill out without stripping the threads....threads are very thin and fine so its very unlikely to drill and save the threads as well .....The moose (a tool to make threads ) will also be very difficult to find of this particular threads and size....
I only said...yaar what have you done....you are not listening to me for last few days .......I know You are a "BIG MECHANIC"now.....But at least you should listen what I am saying.....He kept quite and after a little while the session ended and he left....
Did not come for 3/4 days .....So i sent my cook to him to see every thing is fine .....He told my cook that "I am very much Insulted by Rahman sb so I don't want to come and work any more"....
I pampered this guy as my own child For Last 15 years ......as far as financial matters are concerned ..........I don't want to go in the details summing up with these words that I Was always there with him In all THICK N THINS .....for fifteen years....in all affairs of life.....rescuing him always going out of the way .....
And after fifteen years.....see what I received in return ......I am just like his father in age....
I AM SORRY FOR SUCH A LONG POST......But as you said that no matter for how long they are with you and what ever you do for them ....they hardly remember any thing .....
I try to share every thing about these restoration with you brothers......
I felt that this sad story is also a part of this game......:)....So you may know This "TWIST IN THE STORY".....as well
REGARDS...

Hi brother..i think you need to go and tell him how you feel, leaving it this way he will alway think that you were wrong for talking to him the way u did, it sounds like you've lost a friend, more than a staff member, if it was me I would sit him down and have a heart to heart, 15 years is long time to let go of over a few harsh words. This only my opinion brother......

[spitfire]

Hi brother..i think you need to go and tell him how you feel, leaving it this way he will alway think that you were wrong for talking to him the way u did, it sounds like you've lost a friend, more than a staff member, if it was me I would sit him down and have a heart to heart, 15 years is long time to let go of over a few harsh words. This only my opinion brother......

I fully agree with you....One thing I forgot to mention in my above post ,That After our cook came and told what he said .....My wife called him (without telling me ) and told me afterwards ......to sort out the things and to ask him why he was behaving like this.....After so many years .....but instead of giving her a little respect......he started arguments ......that Rahman sb has insulted me and bla bla.....but she being a very patient lady kept on talking and convincing him that don't you remember any "GOOD THING " done for you by Rahman sb .....and asked him to come to work.......But He said " I WILL THINK ABOUT COMING BACK"......lolzzz...
I did not know about this .....so may be a little feel of guilt was there .....But After I came to know about this phone call........I really felt bad and decided that even if he comes back .......i will not accommodate him....
Actually the guy has this thing in his mind that none of my cars will be able to run without him...A sort of black mailing......He was being accommodated financially "EXTRA ORDINARY" which I don't feels good to discuss here in details......
Any How I feel that his Chapter is closed now....

[spitfire]

@Capsat ...and @margaller.....

As per my commitment ...I managed to take a few pics and here they are for your viewing ....

These are two cars which are parked in the front lawn of the house.....Under covers in rains...

[spitfire]

Another view...

[spitfire]

As you can see ......typical green garden cloth is on top of them ...which restricts sun to a good extent but rain water comes through it.....

[spitfire]

As you can see that red spitfire is under re assembling After about two years of storage..... painted in this bright red colour...

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This BMW was parked here to be driven at will.....

[spitfire]

But neither I drove it nor worked on red spitfire ...and they stayed here under covers for I think 20 day or may be a month....having rain ...and sun...again rain then sun ....covers not removed...

[spitfire]

And results......:(.....right in the middle of BMW bonnet....

[spitfire]

From another angle....you can see that a good area of this mirror like paint is ruined /blistered ....

[spitfire]

Another view of this sad situation.....:o

[spitfire]

Similar situation with spitfire ...but to a lesser extent.....on this fender ...above the groove ...

[spitfire]

tried to capture a close up.....don't know how much successful....I think not much.....

[spitfire]

And at the corner of boot lid ......

[spitfire]

SORRY for being off topic .....but some brothers asked ,So I captured and shared these pics here......
I am not very expert at it but I think That nothing less than Repainting the effected panels can work..

"NATEEJA" .....:)....

NEVER LEAVE YOUR CAR UNDER COVER (SPECIALLY PARACHUTE COVERS) AFTER RAIN FOR LONG PERIODS....

[Marschall]

Sir thats an amazing couple British spitfire and German bmw peacefully under the green shade.