Saturday 9 July 2022

A desirable CS1?

 


-SG- Thanks to Frank who recently sent me the attached photo of a restored, UK-registered CS1. He knows that I deplore the tendency - which seems to be on the decline - of over-restoration and thought this one would produce some appropriate comments from me!  How right he is! Even show models in the twenties did not sparkle like this one - in general there is an excess of plating and polishing and a further cosmetic rebuild would be needed to get back to anything like its original state.  I have to say I am unsure if the plating is nickel, as it should be, or chrome ...