Cape Town M Type

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Ian Grace
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Cape Town M Type

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Down in Cape Town, Neil Beck is restoring a 1929 M Type and is looking for help with 12/12 rep. body drawings or patterns. If anyone can help, please let me know. He has a copy of the original Carbodies Plans, but they are very faded.

Here's his chassis:

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Sam Christie
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There is a plan circulating which purports to be a Carbodies drawing but it is a fake.Copies of this plan have been on sale at times as "genuine" but on closer inspection it is clear it is an amateur effort based (badly) in part on the Profile Publications illustrations.This is the one to avoid-


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Re: Cape Town M Type

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Thanks Sam,

Yeah, I have one of these somewhere and it is a fake. I suspect this is what Neil has.
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