Pinner Local - Andrew Pearce

Focus on Andrew Pearce and his Business together with his hobbies

	Andrew Pearce Property Consultants are an established team of estate agents specialising in helping people buy and sell homes in Pinner and the surrounding areas of Hatch End, Eastcote, Harrow and Northwood. A New Name At Number 10 their independent practice is led by Andrew Pearce, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with more than 40 years' experience. They offer the full range of estate agency services, along with a thriving commercial property department, from their brand new office that you will find at number 10 the High Street in the centre of Pinner Village. Andrew has two main passions Vintage Cars and Yacht Racing which he explains below.

Vintage Cars 1936 MG SA 2.2litre 6 cylinder engine. 4 seater Tickford body. The chassis and engine would have been driven from the MG Factory at Abingdon to Salmons Tickford factory in Newport Pagnall (now part of Aston Martin) for the body to be fitted and then sold through the MG dealership as normal. I have owned the car for 18 years being my 3rd pre war MG which I have owned continuously since 1973 having bought my first restoration project a 1939 MGTA when I was just 20. I try and drive the car every week, 52 weeks a year as this keeps brakes and general mechanics in good working order and not seizing up. The previous 2 MGs I rebuilt in *nut and bolt* restorations, enjoying the ‘hands on’ side of a restoration project. Most satisfying to take a non running wreck of a car completely apart and gradually rebuild it. Both these restoration projects took 4 years each of evenings and weekends so not a quick process. Finding suitable replacement parts is not as much of an issue as one might imagine. There are sufficient pre war MG’s about to ensure that there is a thriving ‘cottage’ industry of small manufacturers prepared to make, cast, manufacture new parts to original specification. The car is fine driving in modern traffic one just needs to make allowances for brakes and acceleration that are not quite the match of modern cars. Out on the open road then she will quite happily cruise at 65/70 all day long and has a soft easy motion and so a delight to drive in the country.

Yacht Racing Another passion I have always had is yachting, having been taught to sail by my Father when I was only 6 years old. Being a competitive chap it is yacht racing that has predominated over the last 20 years. The present yacht is Magnum 111 a Ker40 and last year we were selected for the Great Britain team to race in The Commodores Cup in June just before the Olympics. This is an all Nations event with teams of 3 boats from competing Nations. This year has been just as competitive with 65 races scheduled and won the IRC National Championships both in class and overall and so are National Champions; 2 weeks ago we competed in Cowes Week with a 2nd and last Week we competed in the Fastnet Race and won Class 1, came 6th overall out of 350 yachts and was the top UK boat.