These three episodes weren’t planned as a trilogy — but they became one. What started as a careful first service on an extremely rare car quickly turned into a lesson in restraint, improvisation, and living with the consequences of working on something that simply doesn’t have spare parts. This is the short story of Episodes … Continue reading “Black Betty — Service, Survival, and a Bodged Headlight”
Written by Paula BlacktagOctane
Episode 4 — One Mistake = Game Over Some days in the workshop are calm. Methodical. Predictable. This wasn’t one of those days. Episode 4 was supposed to be simple: get a new ramp into the workshop, give Black Betty her first proper service since we bought her, and call it a win. Instead, it … Continue reading “Black Betty – 1934 Triumph Dolomite 8C”
Written by Paula BlacktagOctane
Black Betty arrived the hard way. We didn’t ease her into life.We didn’t start with short test drives.We didn’t warm her up around the block. We pointed a 1934 Triumph Dolomite straight at Bavaria. A thousand-mile journey.Across borders.Across languages.Across common sense. And that’s where Black Betty stopped being a car —and became a responsibility.. The … Continue reading “Black Betty — The Trip That Made Her Ours”