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Giving the Bentley MkVI some attention

Having waved goodbye to the TR6 project recently, I’ll keep tabs on its rebuild. The car’s new owner Craig regretted selling his previous TR6. I’ll probably also regret selling that TR6 as it is a solid base for a restoration. I passed it on at a minor loss, but that’s fine because there had to be a project cull: the convertible two-door Bentley, the Blower replica, the Miata/Ford Cobra and the Mini Marcos are enough to be going on with.

While I had my sensible head on, something sank in regarding the convertible Cloud project: I’m not going to keep one of those because it’s a commercial

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