You may be conscious that Richard Hammond was making a brand new workshop for his basic automobile restoration enterprise. And final week, it lastly opened.
In a latest video from DriveTribe, the prolific TV host offers us a tour of the not-quite-finished-but-ready-for-business store at a gap ceremony. And it’s, certainly, an enviable store.
With area for as much as seven automobiles, the store has amenities for metalwork, prepping, and portray, with the intention to get basic automobiles from dirty to superb. And, though he’s clearly drained after working 21-hour days to get the store able to open, Hammond can also be clearly very excited.
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At each station, he finds one thing he’s giddy about. Whether or not or not it’s a thick metal desk for welding that may be its personal jig or a sophisticated paint room with air flow that exits via the ground with the intention to have an effect on the paint as little as attainable, or just ducts which can be labeled “Gin,” “Tonic,” and “Tea,” he’s clearly very excited, if slightly overwhelmed, by all of it.
The store will likely be featured on “Richard Hammond’s Workshop” which follows the progress of his restoration enterprise. The enterprise and the TV present, Hammond is keen to level out, will not be mutually dependent although.
“[The shop] exists exterior of the TV collection,” says Hammond. “The TV got here after the workshop. The thought was, you recognize, ‘Lads, let’s do that collectively,’ after which after a while I stated ‘Wait a minute, that may make a pleasant TV present,’ however that’s it – the TV present follows what we do, so we’ll be doing anyway.”
Certainly, Hammond is closely invested within the enterprise having been pressured to promote a number of the basic automobiles in his assortment with the intention to fund the brand new workshop.
