worst year for minors

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I would add to all the comments that, having replaced a wing a couple of years ago the weight of the replacement was much lighter than the original, Doris was built in 1965.
Of course this is an irrelevance if the new item is protected somehow from the dreaded tin worm that the original succumbed to.
If however you wanted to point at rust bucket disease in the 70s, you need look no further than our 1940s apprentices, the Japanese.
Cherrys, Sunnys and all the others were fitted with A series copies that were built to a high standard, even supplied with the green rocker box covers, the bodywork however was built to a price.
As part of the Marshall plan post world war two and our need for an ally in the pacific, to counter the "Soviet threat," we taught them well ref mechanics, dispatching our brightest and best to Tokyo, along with Leonard Lords designs for multi purpose tooling, the bodies however were never up to Morris standards.
History has proven though, the Japanese learn very quickly.