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<blockquote data-quote="Hugo Myatt" data-source="post: 7268" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>John,</p><p>You are right, of course. I chased a Rudge Special for 30 years after the rider fell off and slung it in the back of the garage. He never would sell but his executors did and they knew the current market. You have to grab anything in any condition when you can. A cautionary tale. My brother and I (He is the Scottist in our clan) went to buy a Bugatti 40 years ago. It was at a knock-down price. Still expensive but just within our grasp at the time. My brother looked it over and then said "It's useless. Some idiot has fitted a Wilson pre-selector gearbox. We could spend the rest of our lives looking for the correct Bugatti box." and so we did not buy it. 35 years later I was reading an authoritative Bugatti tome which said Count Someoneorother had ordered from the works a special Bugatti fitted with a Wilson pre-selector gearbox.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hugo Myatt, post: 7268, member: 99"] John, You are right, of course. I chased a Rudge Special for 30 years after the rider fell off and slung it in the back of the garage. He never would sell but his executors did and they knew the current market. You have to grab anything in any condition when you can. A cautionary tale. My brother and I (He is the Scottist in our clan) went to buy a Bugatti 40 years ago. It was at a knock-down price. Still expensive but just within our grasp at the time. My brother looked it over and then said "It's useless. Some idiot has fitted a Wilson pre-selector gearbox. We could spend the rest of our lives looking for the correct Bugatti box." and so we did not buy it. 35 years later I was reading an authoritative Bugatti tome which said Count Someoneorother had ordered from the works a special Bugatti fitted with a Wilson pre-selector gearbox. [/QUOTE]
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