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Does anyone with frame building skills and kit want to try and rescue this? It's a genuine Gillott 1950s 531 frame but has been in a front end shunt or two. I had new dropouts fitted by Varonha a year or so ago but then had a front end crash into an Uber eats delivery type scooter thing at maybe 10-15mph or so. This bent the forks and fork steerer column so these def need looking at, and in the past the top tube seems to have got a little bend out of true near the headlug- I rode it like this and it was fine but considering the later crash with me you'd probably want to check them properly. I spend £100+ getting the dropouts fitted and cleaning the frame up before the crash( it's in original paint I think but with new waterslide decals) so would want recoup a little, but considering it is unusable as it is shall we say £20? Could be used for lugs and some 531 tubing at least if nothing else, but I reckon it salvageable with the skills and kit, I just don't have these or them inclination to spend £100-200 getting it fixed by Varonha.
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