Well Well! talk about no surprises here,
In the 2000 Register the car is shown as being owned by a Mr Hedley Bates, at the time Hedley lived in Farnborough and we dug my donor car for "Fay" a Normale from a bramble patch in his front garden, it was an absolute wreck as it had been sitting in the brambles for years, when we turned up to collect it his Wife said " I don't know who you are but you're my friend for life" so to say she was pleased to see it taken away is to say the least, Hedley had owned the Normale from new, but it must have been sitting in the garden for many years going by the state of it, if anything it was rather worse than this one but I wanted the glass.
however I have no idea what happened to the cut up remains of at least two Milleotto's that were still lurking in the brambles.
Surprised to see there are 8 bids on it so far even though there are still a lot of good parts on it, but I think it would be an optimist who thought it was an economically viable restoration.
Brian
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