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john.wigley · Jul 1st, 2020, 11:08

Perhaps 'restoration' was the wrong choice of word, Alan, and I could better have said 're-commissioning' or bringing back to life.

As I see it, 'restoration' can take many forms; from a gentle 'bringing back to health' while preserving the 'patina' of age, which I feel is essentially what you are doing with the R.B., to a full-on, 'better than new', job, which I would personally consider to be, in most cases, a mistake. It is a truism that a car (or anything else, for that matter) can be original only once.

Semantics apart, you said earlier in the thread of your brown brogues that they had been soled and heeled many times. Are they not still the same pair of shoes that you purchased back in nineteen hundred and strawberry jam, but have 'restored' to a wearable condition in order to facilitate your continued enjoyment of them?

That is what I meant by 'restoration', and it chimes well, I think, with what you are doing with the R.B. Whatever you choose to call the process, I think you're doing a great job, with both the car and the thread!

Regards, John.

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john.wigley VOC Member since 1986 Last Online: Yesterday 23:54 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Leicestershire	Perhaps 'restoration' was the wrong choice of word, Alan, and I could better have said 're-commissioning' or bringing back to life. As I see it, 'restoration' can take many forms; from a gentle 'bringing back to health' while preserving the 'patina' of age, which I feel is essentially what you are doing with the R.B., to a full-on, 'better than new', job, which I would personally consider to be, in most cases, a mistake. It is a truism that a car (or anything else, for that matter) can be original only once. Semantics apart, you said earlier in the thread of your brown brogues that they had been soled and heeled many times. Are they not still the same pair of shoes that you purchased back in nineteen hundred and strawberry jam, but have 'restored' to a wearable condition in order to facilitate your continued enjoyment of them? That is what I meant by 'restoration', and it chimes well, I think, with what you are doing with the R.B. Whatever you choose to call the process, I think you're doing a great job, with both the car and the thread! Regards, John. __________________ Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana .....