Mel Hawkins comments:
A shot of my bike in the SPR pits in late '68.  The frame had just been painted in Chevrolet "Fire Frost red".  My Dad used to work at Harold
Radford's coachbuilders in Chiswick at the time and got me a sample tin of the paint but it wasn't enough so I imported another 2 litres from Du Pontin Sweden.  Unfortunatly I hadn't figured on the freight and import duty so my measly apprentice wage took a real pounding that week!

Harold Bull of "Stripduster" fame did all the bronze welding on the frame and, the following year, re-sprayed it in metalflake purple from paint left
over from his dragster