the car and the palace

We was very proud of our car years, later I find in Internet a similar model (ex Lord Mounbatten) 420 Jaguar,the two small shields of the royal automobil club for Spain and England, are similar to the shields of our car only the exterior color was different, our was navy blue. The fireball was running about 200 Km per hour ¿ can you imagine that? charged with a luggage rack attached to the ceiling plenty of glass furniture separed by foam mattres tied by elastic ropes, in Spanish routes with full throttle. We was never stoped by the Police!!!

The palace of Mondragon was a magnificent andalusian monument builded through several century, we had there some rooms and a big hall with mudejar ceilings as show room ¿What More?

As expected the first client we visited was "House & Garden" Madrid, the Paco Muñoz Bottin store, in his first command he buy all the models as two or three differents colors each. Enough to pay all the bills and financing the next months to work. But sometimes God is just ¿who is in the shop offering some shaming creations for himself? Was Mario "Vagina" Conio, and his products, tables in ordinary wood with a glassed top showing an fake silk tie on back down. I tell him...Nice to decored taylors windows.

After we go to visit other shop named "Corro" in Madrid to, her owner was the Countess of Maronne, aunt of Don Juan Carlos the next King of Spain, this charming Lady, commanded a series of models also. With this background on our pockets we start to entry on the others shops around Spain speaking like the best interior decorators crafters of Europe, the result was...We sold on all the places where we go to offer the goods. A succes.

Back home we went to work earnestly, now had fulfill the commitment and finally two months after we go to delivery. I think it was on this trip we went to Barcelona to see and hear the rolling stones All the way was a party with thousands self stopers dresses craziest way. Unforgetable.

How we coming back with money, the serpent start her work!! A member for the work community was a argentinan young man follower for the Guru Maharaghi...If was it is own idea or an sugesting for Mario "Vagina" Conio we never know but the result was, this mistic spirit at my back, had convinced other members to go to Holland buy LSD to bring back and sold at Seville. They was catched for the Civil Guards in his first day and go to jail.That was the beggining of the end, was a sad history but the youngs are good boys, one of them, go with is wife in jail to.The atmosphere was other, the police came each week to register the workshop and Alistair Boyd stop to rent the Palace and we must move to other house with the workshop.

The car was going out to. One day my partner coming with this new. The Allowing for the car to stay in Spain was finish, his car was matriculated in England. Day to day troubles of relation with the community members blast. We decided delivered the last orders, but in this travel the truck driver arriving San Sebastian fall deep sleep and loss the route giving two turns finishing with the four-wheel looking the sky, my partner, the driver and me, inside. Luckily no hurts. Quickly we go out to search a police office to denouncing th accident and take contact with the insurance company.I don't remember how we coming back, perhaps in train. The driver coming alone with the broken goods and arrived three days after.That was the sad end of workshop in the paradise.