Seeing a metallic brown one brings back very fond memories
My brother purchased a brown Super series 3 from a guy in Reading back in about 1989 - PBL 712 X, one of the first series 3 in this country.
He later PX'd it for 128 SL Coupe fitted with a 1500 X1/9 engine in, with our mate Pete Sands, who later sold it on to me. After a few months, in late 1993, I sold it on to a guy called Alistair Nichol, a South African, who later took it to Scotland when he moved there in 1994.
Went like stink when I'd fitted the carb from my old black Sport JPD 969V....
Not a spot of rust on it either, and it only had 65k miles on it when I sold it.
Ah, the memories.....the painful memories