good start into this week

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good start into this week

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This week seems to get a good one...

Look what I bought today:

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beautiful !!!! :D
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Never mind the cover, lets have a look inside!

Nice purchase.
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Very nice copy Andreas, as I am sure you know John Rhodes Autospeed catalogues are VERY, VERY rare!
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I know they are rare, because You do not have it on Your site.

I like rare things.... ;)
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almondgreen wrote:I know they are rare, because You do not have it on Your site.
I hope that's about to change now? ;)
You can't have too many cars. Just too little space...
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I hope that's about to change now?

So do I, A copy would be brilliant for the site if possible :roll:
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I have the catalogue here now.
It is very nice, it has even with two pages with Tuning tips from
John Rhodes...

I will scan it and give the scans to Mark for his site.
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Thanks Andreas!
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I always assumed that John's top tuning tip would be get John Cooper & Ginger Devlin to arrange for the building of your car & let Downton build the engines :lol:
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Good one :D very nice.

these old catalouges, or old magazine articles, are a GOLDMINE of info.

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