Resto on a budget !!!!

[flywheel1935]

    In the process of recommissioning my ARQ Ruby, and plan to recycle as many of the bits that were on it when purchased off Sir Anthony Jolliffe back in 1991.
Mrs P kindly recovered the rear window surround for £2.20p. Hope to be back on the road in the next few weeks. Door cards next !!!!

[Ivor Hawkins]

Try not to put it in upside down!

[flywheel1935]

I'm in Australia. only joking, the photo was the right way up, but the attachment link seemed to spin it.

[Malcolm Parker]

The head-lining on my Pytchley evocation cost 50p, an old woolen blanket picked up in a charity shop.

[Steve kay]

Eagerly awaited, the next Yorkshire contribution. “50p for an old blanket, that were ten bob! Our mum kept the whole family thriving on mutton and mash for half a crown a week when I were a lad, dad took the other half crown of his wages to build a JAP engined Seven special. To save petrol getting to hillclimbs, he’d tie it onto the back of a passing tram.”

[Colin Morgan]

Get the rest of the restoration of the car as good as that, and it will be fine. I remember the satisfaction of fitting that item - it was the very last one!

[Nick Turley]

50 p !

I thought you would use the wool off your girlfriends sheep and weave the material - think of the saving Malcolm.

[Malcolm Parker]

Good thinking, Nick.
The other day I was waiting at the A170 junction to go down to Thirsk when I saw what looked like a compost heap coming up the road towards me.  As it passed I realised that it was a Smart car that had been completely covered in artificial turf.  I cannot think why anyone would want to do that, apart from disguising your embarrassment at driving a Smart car?  Nick's posting has given me the idea of covering my next project with the fleeces from Margaret's sheep, complete with 'dags' around the exhaust.  There could however be a problem with sheepdog Gus rounding the vehicle up and preventing it leaving the farmyard!
More environmentally friendly than an electric Austin 7?

[Tony Press]

Half a crown- you were lucky !

[flywheel1935]

    In the spirit of keeping costs down & using bits & bobs from around the house, Mondrian meets Herbert Austin meets Andy Warhol/David Hockney  for the inner padding of our Ruby's door cards. It will be in the Tate Modern in 2054 !!!!