Tallman
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I thought I’d share a project I did a while ago. A lady friend of mine working in JHB told me her Turkish boss had many “old cars” and one of them was standing outside with the window open. I asked her to take a pic and to my surprise it was - what I thought at the time - a RR Corniche, so I got a bit excited. A visit was arranged and I found the car in terrible state under a shade port, more or less exposed. Fortunately the weather in JHB is dry, and even though there are frequent rain storms in summer, it dries out quickly, so it wasn’t a total disaster. The engine was in parts in a crate in a shipping container on the property and the boot was full of parts (also the pistons, which were unfortunately a bit rusted). After doing some research I figured out it was a pre-Corniche 1970 Mulliner Park Ward Drop Head Coupe with the 6.2L Engine - V8 of course with ”Enough” power as they then advertised, so definitely worth saving. Being a petrolhead and having grown up drooling over 60’s/70’s British cars like Jag/Healey/RR (and who remembers the Panther P6?), my emotions got the better of me and I decided to put in an offer. I ended up shelling out R25K “to get rid of it for him” and he took my offer - at the time about £2.5k. I had just moved to the Cape so I had the car and parts transported to Stellenbosch and stored the car under a cover pending a restoration.
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