my old 408 FPF 678 B

[Geoff Dowdle]

George,

408/7043 was sold to Perth/Australia c2007 .
A repair/restoration was started but never completed.
In 2015 it was sold at auction to a new owner in South Australia but I have not heard it is back on the road yet.
See attached photos c2015 or earlier

Geoff

[geo]

Geoff,

It looks as if the rumour that it had gone to Australia was correct and thanks for confirming this.

Its Brown colour is not the cream over chocolate it was in my ownership (GWR colours) that was done by the previous owner.

I was going to say that from your photographs, it seems that the cills that were replaced during the time I had it have not survived well, but thinking about this again, these photographs are circa 30-odd years later and the original cills did not last that long either!

I really enjoyed driving this car across Dartmoor where I lived at the time, but one local farmer complained that when I was emerging from T junctions it blocked his LandRover's road on the steep downhill.

I hope the owner in South Australia gets as much pleasure out of FPF 678 B as I did.

Many thanks for this information, I shall no longer keep an eye open for it turning up at a UK auction.

Perhaps my question and your reply could be moved to the 8-cylinder thread as a new owner is more likely to see it there?

George