David's got a dream of a drive... David Dew's achieved what most of us only dream about - he's managed to combine all three of his passions in life into one gleaming, fuschia pink, musical mean machine.
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With a mere £1,000, two years' hard work, and a lot of help from his friends, he now has half of an old Austin A35 - in shocking pink - complete with a 299-track jukebox inserted under the bonnet. "It’s a 1957 A35, in half - I bought it for spares to finish renovating another A35," explains David. "My son (Simon, 37) sprayed it. He decided pink would be the colour.Ìý The Jukebox originated from a pub in London but we got it off Ebay." | "I'm chuffed to bits with it" | | David Dew |
The finished jukebox car is already in demand at local events - but David says he won't be charging a penny for his labour of love. The car was bought, already in a dilapidated state, for the princely sum of £120. The front half had already had a makeover, but the other half was ready for the scrap heap!
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David says it's hard to put a price on what it's worth now, but, being a bit of a guru when it comes to jukeboxes, he claims that it's possible to buy unusual examples like this for about £8,000.ÌýÌý So will he sell it? "I don't charge anything for it," he says. "I've got friends who use it and I used it for my wife's birthday the other week.ÌýNo, I'm definitely not selling it."
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