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Ray White · Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6309 Location: Derby

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20932/lot/211/

http://www.prewarcar.com/magazine/previous-features/which-engine-would-fit-best-a-1903-lacoste-battmann-update-keep-it-as-it-is-022015-2.html

While I fully appreciate that this car, like any other, belongs to whoever bought it and as such they can do whatever they want with it, I can't help questioning the veracity with which some people approach historic car ownership.

On one hand, it is encouraging that the new owner chose to ask advice. On the other, it is worrying that someone with evidently little experience should be asking these questions at this level.

I say that hopefully a rethink will reflect the opinion of most enthusiasts and this exquisite veteran car will be left "as is".

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh

It could make a really unique banger racer but better with a bigger engine.

Peter Rolling Eyes

NOT!
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Ray White · Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6309 Location: Derby

When I think how much care and attention I could devote to a car like that and still keep it nice and original it makes me wince when I read comments like those of the new owner. Crying or Very sad

I don't suppose the chap is a bad person - he is probably just not yet educated enough to appreciate the real thing when he sees it.

He probably encountered a steep learning curve if some of the responses are anything to go by.

Give me strength!!!!

colwyn500 · Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 1745 Location: Nairn, Scotland

The old phrase "more money than sense" applies here I think. Sad

Ray White · Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 6309 Location: Derby

Just recently I took a look on Google Earth at the house where I grew up. It is a lovely old property dating back hundreds of years and I can remember spending a summer holiday (over 40 years ago) helping my Dad rebuild the roof and refitting the old clay peg tiles. To my horror, some idiot has replaced that beautiful ancient roof with modern concrete tiles which are all the same shape and colour and give the old place a "modern" look. I could have cried. Actually when I found they had also replaced all the wavey glass in the windows with modern plate glass I did shed a tear.

I just see the comparison with this car and if my hunch is right before long it will appear with a shiny new paint job and brand new leather.

Maybe some Wolfrace wheels and dirty great V8 engine can be shoehorned in and there you have it. Another hot rod.