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Lowlight Tourer is back in one piece

Having spent some time out on the road in the Lowlight saloon, I have now been back home and plugging away on welding the 1950 Lowlight Tourer. The key objective was to get the welding finished so that I could complete grit blasting and painting before the winter.

When I’d last focused on this, I’d managed to replace the chassis legs, floors and rear spring hangers. However, there were still lots of patches and seam welding to complete to tie everything together and make the car structurally sound. Although

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