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[leaky]

Far to rare to scrap! Gonna start looking around for body shops to take on task of fixing her now. There is a really good classic car garage near mine that also restore cars. They have a mini pickup in there and the only panel that arnt new is the roof and front and rear bulk head so they should be able to do this one haha.

[leaky]

Got her up on to a pallet so she's easier to move about the drive.

 

 

Then dropped the front subframe off.

 

 

 

She's now been moved out the way in to the corner of the garden so I can get my red mini in the garage.

 

Thanks.

[steven]

I love this !

[leaky]

Right well nothing has really happened on the car but an interesting update anyway!

 

I had a message from a guy on the retro rides forum after seeing my build thread on there. He sold the car a few year back for a scrap man friend as he didn't want the car to get broken up or cubed. He also had some information on the car!

 

The first owner was Blanche Gulliver who bought it new in 1962 and who lived in sturminster newton, she sold it to Peter Papworth 10 years later for £75. He was a local farmer and eccentric who put it and around 40 other cars vans lorries and even combine harvesters he bought over the years in a series of sheds and barns scattered around his property. When he died the collection was divided up between the local dealers as none had enough money to buy them all.  One of whom was this guys mate. 

 

This was great to get a bit of history about the car but it gets even better! The guy has the early green logbook the old style blue reg doc a bill of sale from 1972 and a letter from blanche to peter about the handbook, which he only found after as sold the car and could never get hold of the guy he sold it too to send them too them. Thankfully he kept them and as he is coming up this way at the weekend he has offered to drop them in and take a look at how the car coming along.

 

​So yea piecing the history of the car together bit by bits. Would love to find out if Blanche Gulliver is still around now to ask her about the car and would be even better to find some old pic of her.

 

Long shot if anyone on here lives in sturminster newton and would know of a way of finding out if she's still about t it would be jolly handy.

 

 

Anyway that is about it for now. Thanks for reading.

 

[minimissions]

Thats some good news its always good to find out some info on the cars past history makes all these projects worth while :)

[leaky]

Agreed. I like having history on my cars and finding something like this on a car of this age is great. My dads the 3rd owner of the car and the guy reckons the milage is genuine. Which I don't see why it wouldn't be if its spent most of its life sat in a barn.

[minimissions]

Sweet thats good to no mate :) wish i could find more out about my van just have log book thats all...

[victor young]

You Jammy Nowt ! Fantastic how things find their way home over all these years. I have a little history on my Woody, I found a photo on flicker of mine the other month and made a comment on it and then someone else made a comment that they owned it in the early 1990's so I have sent him a message to try to talk to him/her.

 

Good work and nice to see someone else chasing the tinworm around a flat roof woody shell. 

[leaky]

Well here are the bits the guy dropped off at mine.

 

 

 

 

[minimissions]

That is defo some history worth having there, and £75 what a bargin lol back in the day...

[domdee]

what a great build this will be. lovely bit of history with them old receipts!

[leaky]

Cheers guys! Yea I'm pretty stoked with it to be honest. My dad was well impressed. Nice early xmas gift for him! His words were. Well if you can find that you should have no trouble finding all the other hard to find bits for it then haha.

[java gt]

Great having the history to go with,will add to the car in years to come.I was lucky enough to meet the 2nd owner of my 61 van and he was able to fill in the history of it from new.

[Jared Mk3]

Really great to have that kind of history to go with the car.

[spike 25]

Great history  your so lucky to have it with one of our Great British iconic vehicles.

Good luck i will watch with interest as I'm doing a 1966 Traveller.