bpirie1000 wrote:the car is originally Old English WHITE.
found all sorts of colours on the roof. GOLD BLUE etc....
seams teh boot was taken from a surf blue at some point.
think the car originally had oil cooler but no race history....
the handles are the same as teh ones on my 1961 van. i don't see them as different.
I was meaning that the handles do point backwards, not forwards as per your (very nice) van.
I am sure I saw similar conversions in the past, together with a few mods meant to modernise a car ...
JK would probably agree ... alloys, bigger front indicators, reflective number plates, etc.
About that race feeling, yes, cut outs, but also all those colours.
and maybe that oil cooler as well.
I would personnally have tried to keep that racy identity, second to me it is part of the history of this particular car,
but it is also representative of a certain approach at a certain time. This is how certain gents did in the past !
But this is certainly a very personnal point of view which doesn't mean I do not support your effort to rebuild the car back to original specifications ! And if I can help to do so, I will happilly !
Which were the brakes "originally" fitted to the car ?
