More evidence of the reshell in the following month's magazine. Tony writes:
"This latest visit was prompted by a call from Baz Haselock. 'When are you coming to collect this engine? Your car's almost finished'. Well, to me, 'almost finished' means handing over the keys and telling me to take it to the nearest MoT station but apparently to the House of Haselock, it means that Baz and his merry men had been contemplating the dismembered remains of Rattletrap's bodywork and wondering how the hell they were ever going to find enough good metal to turn into anything suitable for refitting to a repaired and repainted floorpan that's ready and waiting!
It was as this stage, apparently, that Mr H. decided to put Plan B into operation. The only sensible course of action, he decided, was to cannibalise another body on which, fortunately, he had already been given an option in case this situation arose.
So that explains how, when Peter and I arrived, they'd already managed to produce a bodyshell that looked so much more like a Beetle than Rattletrap did, last time I saw it."
Caption's to photos printed said "Meanwhile, down in the paintshop, Rattletrap's new body is acquiring coat upon coat of primes, basecoast and topcoats to eventually land up in gleaming Rattletrap Black."
Why the black paint on the inside just above the rear window? Evidence perhaps that Baz maybe used an Oval shell then welded the split window from the original Rattletrap shell into it???
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