27-11-2017, 05:36 PM
There didn't appear to have ever been anything else there. The hood didn't come to us with the car.
The present owner bought the car in the early sixties, when he was a medical student in Edinborough. As he lived near London at the time and made regular weekend trips home, usually in the dark, he painted the Nippy in "Jaffa Cake" colours to make it more visible!
I haven't specifically asked him about the studs, but the extent of his work on the car 50+ years ago seems to have been confined to the paint job and running repairs. I would imagine that the studs came with the car when he bought it and as it was under thirty years old at the time, I should have thought that these would have been original.
Although not a Nippy, our May 1934 PD still had what appeared to be its original duck hood with Lift the Dot fasteners when we bought it in 1974.
The present owner bought the car in the early sixties, when he was a medical student in Edinborough. As he lived near London at the time and made regular weekend trips home, usually in the dark, he painted the Nippy in "Jaffa Cake" colours to make it more visible!
I haven't specifically asked him about the studs, but the extent of his work on the car 50+ years ago seems to have been confined to the paint job and running repairs. I would imagine that the studs came with the car when he bought it and as it was under thirty years old at the time, I should have thought that these would have been original.
Although not a Nippy, our May 1934 PD still had what appeared to be its original duck hood with Lift the Dot fasteners when we bought it in 1974.