Steel tube chassis glass'd into the bodywork. All kinds of potential for lurking horrors.
I like Gilberns. I've wanted to own one for years. I just haven't been daft enough to do it so far. And that's coming from a serial Scimitar owner.
To be fair, would *you* trust some ex-miners from the depths of Glamorgan to build a GRP car? - I mean, really....
Anyway..... try getting *any* panels for a Gilburn from anywhere. If you've got dodgy GRP then you're into the world of paying a specialist to sort it.
Plus, the Gilburns were never *that* good anyway.
However, I do like 'em, but I'd only ever buy a very minty one that had photographic evidence of work done. I certainly wouldn't buy a dog from ebay.
*ding*
Local body shop is very good at it. So good that the local flying club brings in aeroplanes for repair.
Well, they were built in Pontypridd.
I'm unfortunate enough to live 15 mins drive from Ponty.... so I know exactly what I'm talking about.
Ahem. Not sure where you think the 'depths' of Glamorgan are, but be careful what you say about Wales...
Which, I'm told, has a bookshop now.
The Gilberns were decently made for their sort and their time. The GRP work is likely to not be the problem (except for the eternal problem of paint..). It's the built-in chassis that has always worried me about them.
I'd love a good one. Mk.2 Invader Estate auto, by preference (there were at least 3). It's finding and recognising a good 'un that's hard.
Hello! In which direction? I don't know about being unfortunate living
15 minutes away from Ponty - it's got to be better than living *in* Ponty. But 'depths'? Glamorgan hasn't got any depths, has it? Nowhere's remote enough to be called that in Glam surely... or do you mean as in 'pits' (as in "it's the pits" as opposed to "it's fantastic!")?
What, a new one? What sort of books? Or is it a general one? Ponty's had bookshops of various sorts for ages.
Well, Ponty may not be all that far from Cardiff, but, lets be honest, it's about as far from civilisation as you'd want to get ;-)
I'm just up the road in Ystrad Mynach.
/me waves from Rhondda Fawr, just a bit short of Treorchy :-)
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