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PROJECT GT SHELL SHOCK

“I realised that these should have been soaked in penetrating fluid weeks earlier”

It was the first time of many with the Downton. That point in a project where you think you’ve reached a significant milestone, and it’s all going to be downhill from there on. Then reality bites…

After realizing that a complete strip down and repaint was the only sensible option, we’d got stuck in

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