Talking about keeping it "original"

[Tony Griffiths]

Well, this might need a spot of work:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154089033493?ul_noapp=true

[Dave Wortley]

Pity it’s been sold in bits. The body looks restorable (at the current price!)

[Duncan Grimmond]

A classic ploy, there are so many traders who will buy a machine, strip it into parts and sell them piecemeal. Motorcycles are a favourite for this butchery.

[Ivor Hawkins]

In total agreement with you Duncan, I’ve seen it so many times and it just saddens me...I wouldn’t be surprised if the owner has sold the registration plate already...

[Charles P]

On social media when the same was suggested the vendor said:
"it's not a complete car, the bits photographed are just a few in the house, I have multiples of almost all parts. The body was left over I believe when this car and others got split to build racing specials."
He's also posted some other details and pictures of racing memorabilia he found when clearing his uncle's workshop.

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[Tony Griffiths]

Pity it’s been sold in bits. The body looks restorable (at the current price!)

Yes, it really would be wonderful to preserve as much as possible of the original. I wonder what it will finally go for? I'd guess, possibly, £750... Edit: and have been proved comprhensivly wrong.