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PAUL D
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any one ever see one of these??

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saw this at a fair today and decided to buy it aparently it fits in the grill where the bonnet release lever is and it locks it or something.any one ever see one? :D

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Not for years, and only then in a shop.
Autocare when they were in Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre used to sell them about 20 years ago
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Had one fitted many years ago.
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Something very similar was standard fitment on the 1983 Mini Sprite. 8)
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The Marcos Graveyard wrote:Something very similar was standard fitment on the 1983 Mini Sprite. 8)
i remember Elaine had one (or something similar) on the front of her silver mini special a few years back!
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As fitted to the afore mentioned 1100 special,now owned by Eamonn Fahey.
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