15-12-2018, 12:03 PM
In the early 1980s I bought a basket case Triumph Spitfire from a neighbours nephew for £25 and over a couple of years turned it into this, for about £500:
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I used to go to the local technical college on a Wednesday evening to use the metal bashing facilities and I met a guy called Billy Cawthorne who one day asked me if I was still using the kit car. I said "yes but not much these days". "Do you want to swap it for an Austin Seven? and that's how I came to be the owner of my RP Saloon. I would have been about 37 at the time. "Trust me, it's all there", he said, when I went to collect what looked like a basket case. He was right. Almost. Took me 7 years to get it back on the road. This was taken shortly after the rebuild, somewhere around 1996/7 outside Rekkers Towers. I don't know if the "Midge" is still about. It's on the DVLA site but not taxed.
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I used to go to the local technical college on a Wednesday evening to use the metal bashing facilities and I met a guy called Billy Cawthorne who one day asked me if I was still using the kit car. I said "yes but not much these days". "Do you want to swap it for an Austin Seven? and that's how I came to be the owner of my RP Saloon. I would have been about 37 at the time. "Trust me, it's all there", he said, when I went to collect what looked like a basket case. He was right. Almost. Took me 7 years to get it back on the road. This was taken shortly after the rebuild, somewhere around 1996/7 outside Rekkers Towers. I don't know if the "Midge" is still about. It's on the DVLA site but not taxed.