Ulster - MV 1344

[Ian Williams]

Lots of interesting views, so for what it is worth here is mine: Tempting as it may be to fit the TT body the result would be wrong on so many points, " an unsupercharged TT? " being just one of them. Keeping the car as it is just recommissioning it, well if it had evidence of competing at 750MC events in this form maybe, but I disagree that it is a beautiful body, yes a lot better than many home attempts from the 50's but even so not beautiful to my eye. That leave's the third option, restore it closer to its original form, without having seen the car I think I am leaning more this direction, I would like to know how much of the original body survives under the 50's structure. If enough is there and usable you would be restoring an original body, provided it was documented well once finished you would have a matching numbers car with reconstructed, but never the less still the original body for the car. How you dress the body from there is a personal thing I guess. Fitting touring wings etc may be tempting to some but as Austin says he has one of those, the main point from my perspective is that the chassis, engine and the floor remains stay together no matter what happens.

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And yes I agree if it stays as a the builder intended the 50's spinners must remain also.