I chatted with the guy that did all this sanding, he told me that it took him just over a day. I can't start to imagine how horrible that must have been.....

The paint shop owner called me and said that the red door hinges were too worn to allow reasonable alignment. He wanted the original door so that he could cut the mounts off and weld them to the red door, seeing as I had ditched the vandalised door I had to source another, (helpfully?) in white:


I chatted with the guy that painted the inside, he said that painting the 'ceiling' was grief, he had to paint a little then tip the gun down to get some more paint to the bottom of the pick up an hundred times over...




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The van had been with them around 10 weeks at this point, I was struggling along in the little hatch back courtesy car every day.... Naively I thought that it would only be a couple more days before it came back to me....