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PostPosted: Tue May 14, 2013 6:34 am 
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This little car was used by the staff at the factory until somebody managed to drop a storage container on it in the late seventies. The workers secretly dumped it in the tunnels under Longbridge, where it stayed for thirty years as a hidden memorial of the British motor industry.


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One of the latest UK magazines has a full write up about the car and how the owner is going to restore it.


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It is up for auction.


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PostPosted: Tue May 14, 2013 9:24 am 
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Some big arguments over it now too.
In normal Forum style :roll: :lol: :lol:

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that trolly looks like a niffty idea & supercheap to whip up castors would be the expensive part


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Thinking the casters were a bit close together then realised they look like the front end of a supermarket trolley - so even cheaper :wink:

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Wombat wrote:
Thinking the casters were a bit close together then realised they look like the front end of a supermarket trolley - so even cheaper :wink:


Ha ha ha that's funny!


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