A young man in America by the name of Mark , a Forum watcher, has been in touch via the forum pm system. He bought the stripped ally LHD 1949 Bond Mk A from the RM auction. We Mk A owners are few and far between and LHD rarer still , I intend helping him find some missing bits. I will also encourage him to contact Alistair at RUM .The car is original and certainly has U.S. Paperwork dating way back. To those interested its A/12/347 ken weger in america also has A/12/361 - very close in numbers and I imagine exported together - I still wonder if mine ,made 2 months earlier , was a demo as it came back to the uk a year or so later.