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Scilly Leafer? |
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By: Sunny Jim Date: July 11, 2016, 3:40 pm |
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Spotted at Porthloo, St. Mary's Scilly Islands. The chassis |
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looked good, but the body was looking a bit corroded and could |
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do with painting - patina is fine, but it is difficult to |
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preserve decay! That said, vehicle maintenance in the islands |
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seems to mean something different from what we are accustomed |
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to. You can also leave vehicles unlocked with the keys in as |
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there are only about 4 miles of roads and no easy way to get |
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them off the islands. |
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I guessed it was about 1950 from its features, and then cheated |
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by looking up the registration to confirm (the original from |
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Staffordshire Aug 1950). |
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[URL= |
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http://s1070.photobucket.com/user/Sunny-Jim/media/Scilly%20Islands/80%20inch%20… |
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Sunny Jim |
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Re: Scilly Leafer? |
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By: D4B Date: July 12, 2016, 7:15 am |
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Excellent photo thanks. In my opinion, painting it would be an |
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act of vandalism...... |
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Looks just fab as it is 8) 8) |
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Re: Scilly Leafer? |
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By: Sunny Jim Date: July 12, 2016, 1:33 pm |
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Her Ladyship offered me some tissues! |
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Sunny Jim |
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Re: Scilly Leafer? |
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By: rambler Date: July 12, 2016, 5:40 pm |
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[quote author=D4B link=topic=9722.msg101532#msg101532 |
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date=1468325755] |
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Excellent photo thanks. In my opinion, painting it would be an |
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act of vandalism...... |
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Looks just fab as it is 8) 8) |
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[/quote] |
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^^^ get's my vote just the way it is too dogwalk |
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Re: Scilly Leafer? |
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By: hippydave Date: July 13, 2016, 3:49 pm |
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I agree leave it as is, it looks bloody nice. |
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Re: Scilly Leafer? |
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By: niteram Date: August 14, 2016, 9:59 am |
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It looks quite good, compaired to some I've seen on the islands. |
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it looks like it's got new seats and new headlamp trims and a |
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new exhaust, even the front dumbirons look nicely painted black |
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Re: Scilly Leafer? |
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By: Sunny Jim Date: August 16, 2016, 4:12 pm |
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It had obviously had a lot of work done on the chassis, but the |
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body and bulkhead were corroding badly. It is all very well 'not |
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painting it' but it is difficult to 'preserve decay' and |
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eventually it will rot away. Aluminium panels are not immortal |
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if unprotected, especially by the sea - I would clean off all |
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the corrosion and paint it. I have had mine nearly 40 years, and |
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for most of that time it has lived outside. There is no way it |
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would have survived all that time 'as acquired', and it has had |
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three paint jobs in that time. That said, I wouldn't do one of |
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those immaculate restorations that go for �40 - �70k where you |
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wouldn't dare take it out of the garage! |
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Anyway, I spotted it on E-bay a couple of weeks ago - it was |
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over �10k at that point. |
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Sunny Jim |
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