[Tech1] Car restored

[Alan Taylor]

Am I right in thinking that in his early days Savile used to drive around in a Bentley with a Rolls Royce radiator stuck on the front?  Far cheaper than a Roller and plenty of people were fooled by it.

Like many aspects of his life, what mattered most to him was the image.

Alan Taylor






On 8 Aug 2021, at 8 Aug . 15:24, Steve Edwards via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:

> No, it had nothing to do with the AA…….
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> <image.jpg>
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> As it ‘appens, Sir Jimmy had the car painted JCB yellow from its previous black paint finish - lots of the originality was then lost as many parts like bumpers, trims and chrome door handle were painted over their original finishes.  However, it sold for somewhere around £22k at auction shortly after he died but just before the news of his wrongdoings finally broke out. Consequently it reappeared on the market again for less than half the original hammer price as unsurprisingly nobody wanted to own it!
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> Leaving Jimmy to one side, it was otherwise a pretty good car with a low mileage of -I think-  around 9k on the clock and the former unsympathetic restoration was mainly cosmetic meaning the possibility of restoring it back to its its previous condition would be viable proposition.  It has since been sold on again.
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> Steve
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>> On 8 Aug 2021, at 13:37, Dave Plowman via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Wondering, by the colour, if it is to do with the AA? They always seemed
>> to want the smallest vehicle on the roads - when they were the AA.
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>> In article <722DD7C3-82C4-4438-A78D-3D29E06F6963 at btinternet.com>,
>> Steve Edwards via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>>> ŒŒAnd finally to take us back to the original question Alan was asking regarding lights & modifications classic cars, this photo is a typical example of what not to do and shows the unsympathetic out of touch and total disregard of originality retro fitting of safety features:-
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