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IS IT A RESTORATION, OR ARE WE PAPERING OVER HISTORY? JOIN MORLEY IN THE SHED TO FIND OUT

If you’ve been playing along at home, you’ll know that I recently inherited my father-in-law’s 1924 Model T Ford. This came as something of a surprise (to me, anyway) because, while we both had a bit of a thing for anything mechanical, and he certainly knew I was in to cars in a fairly major way, there was no hint that the T would be coming my way when his time came.

But as well as surprised (and, frankly, flattered) by the gesture, I’m also well aware that this old Tin Lizzie will always be Gordon’s car, and fair enough. And equally, I know that I now have a responsibility to preserve the old girl and not muck it up in the process. By which I mean it deserves to be running properly, have the lost bits found and the broken things fixed, but as far as changing the look of it, I just know that can’t

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