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Love the comment about the "very old fashioned disc radio thing".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SKyAN-q8CQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SKyAN-q8CQ
Love the kids review. To think, when that car was made there was no such platform for young talent 
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I very, very, very nearly bought that car (R666UFO). I travelled all of the way down to Bournemouth from Wolverhampton to go and have a look at it.
It was a 4.5 registered as a 4.2 like all of the early ones, and it presented very strong evidence for being one of the first real lightweights. It was rumoured to be one, and a few confirmed they believed it was when I started ringing around for bits of service history. It had a very floppy bonnet and the bootlid felt a bit light too. I remember the wings sounding what I thought was more hollow and my initial scepticism on it being a lightweight was rapidly subsiding the more digging I did. It had done a few miles as well which was nice to see and until it was put into storage, it had been used regularly. Of all of the cars I went to view, this was the most original.
It was being sold by a mad old chap (I never expected a bloke with a walking stick and shrapnel in his leg to make a car shift like he did that) on behalf of a friend who was terminally ill and because of this it took a very long time to dig up some service history, most of which was from Steve Howard, because of so much property being put in storage in anticipation of his passing.
I waited a good number of weeks for them to find some history and just as it started to trickle through, I went and saw the car I later bought. The price/upgrades to the car I bought swung it and if what later became mine hadn't been advertised, I'd probably have that one now instead.
Great to see it's gone to a good home!
. I very, very, very nearly bought that car (R666UFO). I travelled all of the way down to Bournemouth from Wolverhampton to go and have a look at it.
It was a 4.5 registered as a 4.2 like all of the early ones, and it presented very strong evidence for being one of the first real lightweights. It was rumoured to be one, and a few confirmed they believed it was when I started ringing around for bits of service history. It had a very floppy bonnet and the bootlid felt a bit light too. I remember the wings sounding what I thought was more hollow and my initial scepticism on it being a lightweight was rapidly subsiding the more digging I did. It had done a few miles as well which was nice to see and until it was put into storage, it had been used regularly. Of all of the cars I went to view, this was the most original.
It was being sold by a mad old chap (I never expected a bloke with a walking stick and shrapnel in his leg to make a car shift like he did that) on behalf of a friend who was terminally ill and because of this it took a very long time to dig up some service history, most of which was from Steve Howard, because of so much property being put in storage in anticipation of his passing.
I waited a good number of weeks for them to find some history and just as it started to trickle through, I went and saw the car I later bought. The price/upgrades to the car I bought swung it and if what later became mine hadn't been advertised, I'd probably have that one now instead.
Great to see it's gone to a good home!
Edited by NuddyRap on Monday 24th October 16:06
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