16-09-2020, 03:33 PM
Having owned an eighty-plus year old car that was still in its original factory paintwork and trim, I would not like to repeat the experience. As Charles and Steve suggest, it's an onerous task to preserve without further damaging what has survived. I stuck it out for nearly ten years in which time i nearly doubled the car's mileage, before I baled out before destroying it. As far as I can tell, the buyer, who still owns it, has done less than 500 miles in the last eighteen years, so he has been able to preserve it in a manner that I could not - it was a delightful car which asked to be driven!
Unfortunately many of the 'oily rag' cars around are not preserved originals, but run-down examples of a fifties 'tidy-up', and as such I can see no point in trying to preserve them in their present neglected state. But hey-ho, each to his own ...
Unfortunately many of the 'oily rag' cars around are not preserved originals, but run-down examples of a fifties 'tidy-up', and as such I can see no point in trying to preserve them in their present neglected state. But hey-ho, each to his own ...