Hi Bud,
A small but important point.
Bud wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:33 pm
According to Laurence there are now five out of every eight SP's produced has been accounted for.
This means he knows what happened to them, where they are…… or where bits of them are …..
Take my garage for example.
I have my car that I'm restoring
I also have 2 complete "extra" body's, with tags. plus another 1 in pieces ( No Tag & No ID ) .
I have 3,5 "eaxtra" Chassis, no ID's, 2 are is really good & 1 is basically scrap. The half is only the front end of a chassis
I have 2 "Dart" engines. 1 in my car & 1 came from a scrap yard in Scotland around 1976, along with a gearbox, windscreen etc etc. The Engine & Gearbox number clearly identified the car, which was scrapped in 1976.
So, according to Laurences list, I can positively account for 4 cars …… ( Mine, 2 "extra" Bodies & a scrapped car in Scotland )
only 1 will ever run. ( Maybe 2 since I'm slowly collecting enough parts )
I would argue that the other "2" that I have will NEVER be complete cars … no Chassis, no engine, pedals, window winders, etc etc etc ie they have not survived, but are accounted for.