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THE WAY I SEE IT...

“Paul decided to convert it to a two-seater by removing the occasional seats in the rear”

When Paul Ziller and his partner Jenny bought the elegant Austin-Healey 100-6 featured on these pages in 2015, it cost just £6000 on eBay and was a totally rusty wreck. It is not stretching the truth too much to say that Paul virtually swept it off the trailer when he collected it from a farm in the Midlands. Why did he buy it?

'Because I’d just sold a Jaguar E-type and fancied a Healey,' he says with a grin. 'They have that lovely 1950s look about them. Mine is a 1957 model, which was originally exported to America and then

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