On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, at around 22:06:43 local time, Guy Singleton
<guy.singleton@virgin.net> wrote:
>If anyone is interested I have just heard of an Equipe which is available -
>possibly free , it is in someone's garage , under a tarpaulin , a friend of
>the owners had looked at it and says there is quite a lot of rust ! The car
>is located near Bedford , I have not managed to establish which model it is.
Dear All,
I have now been in touch with Stuart, and have arranged to go and see
this Equipe. Not that I had been looking for one particularly, but
when a car like this turns up on your doorstep, you have to feel that
Fate has taken a hand...
Stuart tells me that the car has been sitting under a tarpaulin in a
garage for at least the last ten years, and that he thinks it may have a
four-cylinder engine (so, maybe a GT2+2, a GT4S or a GT4S 1300 - most
likely a GT4S). He also says that the bodywork is in terrible
condition, and that the floor pan on the driver's side has rusted
completely away. Rusty fibreglass?? Something doesn't add up here.
Anyway, assuming that this really is a Bond Equipe, and not, say, a MkII
Ford Escort with a 007 bumper-sticker, what should I be looking out for?
I assume I should look at the engine as though I was looking at a Spit,
and at the chassis as though I was looking at a Herald, but what about
the bodywork and the interior?
And, given that this car hasn't moved in ten years, is there anything I
can do on site that might permit me actually to start the engine?
Presumably all the rubber components will have perished, all the
electrical contacts will have corroded; all the pistons will have seized
in the cylinders, and so on. :-(
Can anyone point me in the direction of a website that shows commission
numbers for Bond Equipes, and tell me where I might find the commission
plate?
Should the engine number be in the normal Spitfire sequence (assuming
4-cyl)?
ATB
--
Mike
Ellie - 1963 White Herald 1200 Convertible GA125624 CV
Connie - 1968 Conifer Herald 1200 Saloon GA237511 DL
Carly - 1977 Inca Yellow Spitfire 1500 FH105671
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