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Just taking the Mickey.

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Just taking the Mickey.
Ray White Offline
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#1
27-07-2022, 02:37 PM
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195232541373?...SwaP9i2IOj


Sorry, but even after all these years this sort of thing still leaves me baffled and irritated.  

Sad I just don't see the point. Huh
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#2
27-07-2022, 02:42 PM
Sad thing that.
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#3
27-07-2022, 02:47 PM
"Still a bit of work to finish it off" = I've done the easy bits, but I don't know how to do what's left!
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#4
27-07-2022, 03:29 PM
Dare I say that the body once adorned what is now an Ulster style special?
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#5
27-07-2022, 04:59 PM
Judging by the work being done by the trolley jack and axle stands in the first photo, it should have been advertised as 'a pile of disparate components'
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#6
27-07-2022, 05:33 PM
It’s a shame it’s been chopped because the body itself looks pretty sound and could have helped a Ruby owner who needs a decent body.
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Tongue  27-07-2022, 06:08 PM (This post was last modified: 27-07-2022, 06:09 PM by Ray White.)
Not wishing to labour the point but what exactly IS the attraction??.  When I was a teenager it was very much the in thing to make a hot rod out of an otherwise scrap car but the scarcity of pre War cars now makes it nothing short of vandalism. 

In my opinion, it's a bit like returning to the Barry Bucknell days of Victorian house "modernisation". Sad
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Wink  27-07-2022, 06:08 PM

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Oh , come on !!!!!!
I would build it
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#9
27-07-2022, 06:52 PM
Yes, so would I, but it would be a proper job, not like what we have here.
Alan Fairless
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#10
27-07-2022, 07:52 PM
I have to say the car in the ad is not what I would call proper hot rod building...some of the hot rods I’ve seen are real masterpieces, but I would never condone rodding a rare car.
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