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Remember the Austin A35?

As always, there is too much to do and not enough time to do it. Some of you may remember that I wrote about assessing the Swanage Railway’s 1965 Austin A35 van to fix it up and sell on their behalf. What with work, the lockdowns, volunteering on the railway as a fireman, a few summer holidays, running repairs and the 1950 Lowlight Tourer taking priority, it was now going on a year from when I last looked at it!

Before winter truly set in, I decided to retrieve the vehicle back

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