[Robert Darwent]

Well there was nothing for it really but a full restoration. I needed to get rid of that horrible black paint and I could only do that properly by completely stripping the chassis. Obviously all the wiring needed replacing too, it was just downright dangerous. Once I had a bare chassis, I removed the black 'treacle' quite easily thankfully with a jelly type paint stripper applied to small areas at a time. The chassis was quite discoloured underneath due to light rusting in places and was the reason for the black paint I assume. I repainted with silver Smoothrite for most of the metalwork, with black on the underside, as per the original finish. I was quite pleased with how it turned out.