Kest
Club Member
Hey there guys,
Let me introduce myself, my name is Adam Kesterton (prefer Kest), and I am now the proud owner of a 260 2+2. Well a project at least. Which I hope to fully restore and get to some sort of condition where it meets some of your guys approval here. I guess I’ll start a thread a little further down the line to track the progress, that seems to be the normal course of action for projects, so more on the specifics later on I guess.
Now let me rewind a little. Some of you may have recognized my last name Kesterton, well yes I have been around the club for 30 or so years but mostly as a tag along, my father was Brian Kesterton, he ran the heart of England for many years back in the day and at least I feel one of the bigger fan boys for the 280zx. I recognize many names amongst the forums so I know many of you will have known Brian personally or at least heard of him (he was always helpful sorting parts for many club members), or at the very least he was on the top gear episode where Clarkson was a d**k to everyone in the club.
Sadly I am sorry to inform you all that my father passed away in October of last year following some tough times with Alzheimer’s disease. Times were hard, truly hard, but even after us his family failed to be recognizable to him, he still checked in on his car and admired it, his car was everything to him. The cars and the club were such a big part of his life, so I thank you all for being apart of some of his truly happy memories throughout his life.
Prior to his death other shells and projects he possessed had been scrapped due to garage spaces and some reality of his abilities – It was so saddening what was disposed of. However his 280 remains as does his last project that we both worked on side by side before he became too ill to work down the garage.
The 260 fat ass is now my own and I aim to finish what we both started many years ago.
my ability is against me, I gave up working on cars maybe ten years ago now, and my experience with Zs is they are normally ZXs, but my heart is in the right place and I have 30 years worth of 280 parts to assist. So with your guys help, guidance and occasional ire or passive aggressive forum comments I'm sure I can put something together that would make my old man proud.
It's certainly not staying yellow.
Let me introduce myself, my name is Adam Kesterton (prefer Kest), and I am now the proud owner of a 260 2+2. Well a project at least. Which I hope to fully restore and get to some sort of condition where it meets some of your guys approval here. I guess I’ll start a thread a little further down the line to track the progress, that seems to be the normal course of action for projects, so more on the specifics later on I guess.
Now let me rewind a little. Some of you may have recognized my last name Kesterton, well yes I have been around the club for 30 or so years but mostly as a tag along, my father was Brian Kesterton, he ran the heart of England for many years back in the day and at least I feel one of the bigger fan boys for the 280zx. I recognize many names amongst the forums so I know many of you will have known Brian personally or at least heard of him (he was always helpful sorting parts for many club members), or at the very least he was on the top gear episode where Clarkson was a d**k to everyone in the club.
Sadly I am sorry to inform you all that my father passed away in October of last year following some tough times with Alzheimer’s disease. Times were hard, truly hard, but even after us his family failed to be recognizable to him, he still checked in on his car and admired it, his car was everything to him. The cars and the club were such a big part of his life, so I thank you all for being apart of some of his truly happy memories throughout his life.
Prior to his death other shells and projects he possessed had been scrapped due to garage spaces and some reality of his abilities – It was so saddening what was disposed of. However his 280 remains as does his last project that we both worked on side by side before he became too ill to work down the garage.
The 260 fat ass is now my own and I aim to finish what we both started many years ago.
my ability is against me, I gave up working on cars maybe ten years ago now, and my experience with Zs is they are normally ZXs, but my heart is in the right place and I have 30 years worth of 280 parts to assist. So with your guys help, guidance and occasional ire or passive aggressive forum comments I'm sure I can put something together that would make my old man proud.
It's certainly not staying yellow.