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Old 12th March 2010, 16:02   #7
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Default Part Six

While the egg timer slowly runs out of sand before the next installment, we're running around amassing more bits to replace or fit to get the project car looking and running a lot better than it is at present. One such issue to resolve is the wheels, which as you will know by now was shod with steel wheels. In the grand scheme of things this is quite an irrelevant tale, but it serves to show how you can save money and get a great end result if you take a few minutes to shop around and ask the right folk.

After being alerted by David Spriggs to a parts supplier selling off brand new steel wheels for just £15 each, he was most kind to fetch 3 of them and hand them over to Lates with a spare he had lying around, where they were scooped up last weekend for some tyres. A search on the bay of fleas came up with a company selling a set of part-worn Contintental Premium Contacts for £80. These are close to the Eco Contacts that the car would have worn originally (I like these sort of details ), and they were ordered and fitted on Wednesday.

And here they are.


Did I say they are part-worn? To the extent that 2 of them rolled about 100 yards if that! The remaining two can't have done more than a thousand miles, they are that good. So, at long last we'll no longer have different alloys on the project car and S525 will continue to look better and better.
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