02-01-2018, 04:12 PM
Keep it as it is and continue to use it Ruairidh. I don't particularly like cars that are so over-restored that their owners cart them about in a horse box or similar and spend all day at shows waving a nenette over them. OK if that floats your boat, whatever but I prefer to see a car with a bit of patina that gets used for what it was intended.
Sadly I haven't any history of my car prior to approx 1978 - it was at that time owned by someone in the Bakewell area but I have no documentation to substantiate it. I think it's original number is on a Roller somewhere. Since I acquired it in the early 1980s it has been in regular, but not quite every day use, and I'm certainly not one for molly-coddling it. (annual outings in the snow can testify to that)
It's nice to see cars that have a long family history, and you can't beat some decent provenance if you're selling but what's more important is that they are still running and being used!
Sadly I haven't any history of my car prior to approx 1978 - it was at that time owned by someone in the Bakewell area but I have no documentation to substantiate it. I think it's original number is on a Roller somewhere. Since I acquired it in the early 1980s it has been in regular, but not quite every day use, and I'm certainly not one for molly-coddling it. (annual outings in the snow can testify to that)
It's nice to see cars that have a long family history, and you can't beat some decent provenance if you're selling but what's more important is that they are still running and being used!