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"Shed find" Frogeye Sprite - sounder than it looks
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 4:12 pm    Post subject: "Shed find" Frogeye Sprite - sounder than it looks Reply with quote

It looks pretty desperate in its current state, but is there a moderately-sound (bar the sills) project lurking within this jumble of assorted parts?

http://bit.ly/1bC23ia



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pity Gillings got to it first.

Nobody ever contacts me about a garage that needs emptying because the estate is being sold.

With Frogeye`s fetching good money it was worth the effort getting this out of the very tight space it was found in.

Poor old thing looked like it had been dumped in a supermarket trolley.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 2:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It says there are no paperwork, but with both reg & chassi no, and owners name, cant this easely be resurrected from DVLA ?


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JC T ONE wrote:
It says there are no paperwork, but with both reg & chassi no, and owners name, cant this easely be resurrected from DVLA ?


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If the car is still registered, then there's no problem.

If not, you would need some piece of original paperwork, confirming that the chassis number belongs to a car with that registration number. An old logbook is perfect, but if that doesn't exist then a new owner's only hope is to try and see if original, pre-computerised (pre-DVLA), records exist in a local council's archive for that car.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Makes you wonder how many suburban garages are hiding a treasure like this.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ukdave2002 wrote:
Makes you wonder how many suburban garages are hiding a treasure like this.

Dave


I suspect that 1950s-built suburbia is far better hunting ground than leafy farming areas.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 10:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Definitely........

It is a bit like living in a large or small town.....you are non descript, you just melt in.

You can live in a street for years and not know the person who has lived in a nearby house until they die and you see the house for sale.

These are the circumstances where interesting items are turned up.

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