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Rich
Thanks for that. I had thought that ours was meant for export having read the Iota article you mention.
The car is not a stretched chassis and seems always to have been a 500 - the chassis plate reads 5/20/48. Some updating was done in period ie it now has a steering rack rather than a box and the rear shock absorber mounting has been modified. There is also an LSD. There are also mirrors in little housings either side of the screen
As to colour, it was red when acquired by Ewan and although he has stripped most of it back to bare metal some still remains. This appears to be the only colour layer so unless it had a bare metal respray (!) at some time we are assuming it has always been so.
Tony Hodson
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