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Back home, but not quite done

The trouble with using someone else’s facilities is that you have to work at their pace. This is particularly problematic when your usual rate of progress is much slower than theirs! As some of you may remember, last month I was using a friend’s spray shop to repaint Lily, my 1967 Morris Minor four-door saloon, and at the close of play last month I’d left the car in primer.

My friend has since applied the colour, and once the topcoat had hardened, we embarked on a busy and intense period of

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