Vintage value
21st May 1992, Page 50
21st May 1992
Page 50
Page 50, 21st May 1992
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• With reference to Mr Wells' letter on the subject of vintage values (CM 30 April-6 May); I can assure your correspondent that the new owner is only too aware of current market values.
Mr Wells may have misunderstood that the AEC in question is a unique machine which has survived, in working condition, for 20 years. All other heavies of the period are either in scrap condition or have been restored. Restoration, unless done intelligently, destroys what little reality there may be left in the scrap.
Were this precious machine to fall into the hands of an over-zealous restorer, it could lose all its character at a stroke. As it stands it has been "frozen in time" and the new owner means to keep it that way. Peter J Davies Flitwick, Bedford.
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