So far Team Ireland has acquired two core engines for the vehicle, both fifty year old 36 hp lumps, both were sourced within the UK, one kindly came via Ken Blomer at Automanics in Yorkshire and for that we are forever indebted, the other was purchased via a contact on Volkszone ( thanks fuzzyduck dude!)

The engine is due to arrive in Belfast tomorrow ( Wed 18th March 2009) upon arrival it will go to the workshops of the legendary Damien Doherty who will disassemble, blueprint and re-assemble the shortblock. This Friday evening, Rob Judge from RNJ Motorsport will fly to Ireland and meet with Damien and discuss the build, Rob will return to Ireland with the heads which he will be re-building, at this point our utmost thanks has to go to Rob and Damien, without their kindness and help this journey of ours would be infinitely harder.

Once the longblock is built, it will be shipped direct to Art Thraens ACE Speedshop in Salt Lake City, where Art has kindly donated shop space and time for our turnkey assembly and installation of this years engine into Happy Dayz, the engine will be run on Arts dyno prior to installation. The ancillaries for this years engine are being prepared by Ed Fall at Vintagewerks in the U.S. Ed will be checking and re-building ( if required) my ex Keith Seume Bosch 010 Distributer and Ed will also be rebuilding our 28 pict carb and fuel pump.

Again our eternal graititude goes to Ed and Art for all their kindness and help.

**update** the engine destined for Happy Dayz arrived in Belfast today (18/03/2009) on schedule