Around Christmas time one year I saw it advertised in a small add in the local newspaper where my parents live.
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It belonged to a Doctor from Normandy near Guildford.
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I bought the car for
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£100 which is a laugh considering what you have been offered for it now! It was broken down on his drive but I got it running and drove it home to Gloucestershire.
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It came with lots of service history and receipts including one for
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£1200 for replacing all four calipers with Toyota Items.
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The bill broke down to
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£250 for each caliper and
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£200 labor.
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When I had a look at these
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"new" calipers they turned out to be refurbished ones that were available for
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£70 each in the trade at the time.
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That garage made a tidy profit that day!!
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It underwent a rather slow restoration over the next few years after I got it and was finished off with a respray done by a friend who had once been in the panel beating trade.
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His workshop had a pet mouse and the cellulose fumes killed it off! They also almost killed the sprayer off since all he had for protection was a dust mask!!!
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I sold it to a guy who bought it over the phone without even seeing it.
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I put quite a lot of new parts on it but I don't remember changing the dampers so I assume the guy who bought it from me must have fitted more good parts to it.
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I actually put a new vibration damper on the drive shaft and I wished I had
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removed it before the sale because I have never been able to find another one
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(not that they do much).
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Unfortunately I do not have many pictures of the restoration and those that I do have are on film rather than digital.
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Hopefully I will see it at one of the shows some day.
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Andrew