12-02-2018, 11:16 AM
I quite agree with you, Colin. A labour of love is how I also would describe such heroic restorations. I have a theory that many cars are taken on with a "head in the sand" approach. If my friend, Ian Watson, who started restoring a derelict Austin Swallow saloon 10 years ago, had realised quite how much would be involved, he would probably have walked away but he stuck with it and it is only now that the paint is going on. 
Maybe we still think of the Ruby as being in plentiful supply and unless people see something in them over and above their price value they will continue to be overlooked and even chopped up to build a 'special' of some kind.
Maybe we still think of the Ruby as being in plentiful supply and unless people see something in them over and above their price value they will continue to be overlooked and even chopped up to build a 'special' of some kind.