Car dilema- Pics up on P3

[Dr S]

I can't keep both. Problem with old cars (as with old bikes) is that they need constant fettling. I fettle old cars all week and in the past when I had loads of old cars I would spend my days off fettling old cars. I decided that I would just have one or two. Problem is I have quite a few projects in storage and the cost soon mounts up.
Finding warm and dry homes for them over winter is always a nightmare every autumn too.
For those reasons it's got to be one in one out from now on.

 

[Dr S]

Had a few requests for photos of the car in question, so here you go

Could you sell it?

 

[BobCatMax]

That is stunning Dr S, and no i couldn't

 

[cyfa2809]

no!
whats the step nose look like? differences?

 

[suburbanreuben]

So that would originally have been supplied by Thomson &Taylor of Cobham?
The most beautiful car ever made, in my opinion.
My mum had a K reg 1750 GTV.
When she was sherried up, she DROVE it!

 

[Dr S]

Here's a pic of a step front. Doesn't look too different but every panel bar the roof and bootlid are different. Also has a much nicer dash and a steel bodied car is 150kg lighter. Engines are 1600cc but i would be fitting a supercharged 2 litre if I buy one.

 

[Dr S]

So that would originally have been supplied by Thomson &Taylor of Cobham?
The most beautiful car ever made, in my opinion.
My mum had a K reg 1750 GTV.
When she was sherried up, she DROVE it!

I think so. It was first registered in Surrey and then sold to Alan Day's dealership in London. It then went to a guy in Weybridge for a few years and then was sold to the lady I bought it from in Brighton. She moved up here in the late 80's and put the car into storage until I bought it in 2005.
I'd love to trace the original owner as i guess it was him who took it to Le Mans in 1975- it still wears the sticker in the top of the rear screen.

 

[legrandefromage]

I'd love to be in your position, just bear in mind some of us have to scrabble around just for some wanky bike bits. (sighs)

I might have to put my foot down at home and get another SD1 or W126 or something...

I cant even look at Classic Car Weekly without getting the 'itch'

 

[Kestonian]

She sure is a beauty. I just know I couldn't do a car like that justice.

 

[IDB1]

Course I could get rid . . . since the purpose would be to get my mitts on something I wanted more.

Tis a beautiful thing though Dr S . . . . and an unenviable choice.

If you ever need a pair of middle-aged cripples hands to help out.. .. .. *whistles*