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Old May 2nd, 2019, 12:42   #9
Joseph Martin
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Rothesay, Isle of Bute
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Originally Posted by SteveP View Post
If you can... keep at it, hopefully any welding shouldn't be too expensive - looked like that car had potential and they're only getting rarer, I remember seeing the for sale ad.
I drove it back from Southampton to Glasgow in the one night (12 and a half hours, car managed it but it was a long drive for me), and apart from an erratic idle, possibly from a poorly set up carb or throttle body, the car drove back absolutely spot on and didn’t miss a beat. 477 miles all in.
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