I had a thoroughly pleasant weekend in West Sussex at the 82nd Goodwood member’s meeting, made all the more pleasurable by driving my mates 1965 series 1 e-type to our accommodation (a stones throw from the kennels) and back home.

Amongst the highlights for me was watching the beast of Turin competing in the S. F. Edge trophy.

Lowlights was watching Mark Walker lose control of his Darracq 200hp 40 yards before the finishing line, thankfully he was thrown clear of the car and managed to walk away.

There was plenty of exotica on show around the racetrack but this one caught my eye, fans of Retropower will know exactly what’s special about it!

For those that are interested the part 1 video has just gone up from Painting Classic Cars on the bodywork repairs and repaint they are carrying out on my 997.

I’m currently doing a job I’ve put off since we moved here and that’s painting the garage walls white, well I’m forced into it really as I’m having the concrete floor resin coated in a couple of weeks and want it done before then. I thought the worst part would be emptying the garage, which was a herculean task in itself and involved a 6 yard skip full to the brim and our garden room stuffed full of garage paraphernalia! What is actually the worst bit of this job is the coverage of the paint. I’m doing all the joints with a brush, then doing the blockwork with a roller afterwards, see below.

I can’t get over the lack of coverage though, the paint I’m using is called Resincoat Garage Wall Coating, and whilst it’s great at filling the holes and marks that breeze blocks seem to have, the actual coverage isn’t great.

In the photograph above, the wall on the left with the pipework has had two coats, the wall adjacent to it has had three and the wall on the right has had one. I realised it would need two coats but i’m surprised I’m going to have to do four (never mind the expense)!

Am I doing something wrong or is it simply the current low temperature that’s affecting coverage? I’m following all the instructions that came with the paint.