Joined: Aug 2017 Posts: 1,334 Threads: 34
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Location: Cheshire
Car type: Race Ulster, 1926 Special, 1927 Chummy, 1930 Box
I hope it’s not about to become an Ulster Rep.
Alan Fairless
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Location: Sherwood Forest
Car type: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
I would take the mileage claim with a pinch of salt; there are a number of features which point to extensive use, and with a speedo that only records 99,999 miles it could easily have gone round the clock once or even twice.
Joined: May 2018 Posts: 2,942 Threads: 557
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Location: Peak District, Derbyshire
Car type: 1929 Chummy, 1930 Chummy, 1930 Ulster Replica, 1934 Ruby
By the summer - with luck and Covid-19 permitting - a fully-rebuilt very early Ruby should be back on the road.
Joined: Jun 2018 Posts: 517 Threads: 90
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Mine wasn't on the register either when I bought it. It is now.
Jamie.
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what ever happened to the "buy it strip it clean it put it back together and see if you can drive it attitude", when I first bought a Ruby in 1971 thats what I did there was no spares chain ,there were none in the scrap yards in the south Wales valley where I lived in fact I was innocent enough to believe that I had made a great discovery , I could not afford to pay anyone to do anything for me .it was a learn how to do everything myself ,my attitude back then as now was the people who painted it or did the trim or wired it were just like me with two arms and legs and a brain so with the enthusiasm of youth and blind faith in my about to be aquired skills got stuck in and six months latter got it MOTd and I know that that car is still around today. surely I was not the only one back then with that attitude that is how most of us who started to save cars were all of the same mind .best regard to all Rob,
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Location: The delightful town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
"what ever happened to the "buy it strip it clean it put it back together and see if you can drive it attitude"
Rob, that's been my attitude all the way through. Bought my seven in 1986, fully stripped it, paid someone to grit blast the chassis, but I stripped it, welded it, filled it, sprayed the paint. Paid someone to re-bore the block. Everything back together, started first time. Persuaded a V5 out of DVLA. Taxing it today, should be driving it in a week or two. it's taken over thirty years though.