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Vintage Thing No.22.4 - yet another other Siva Llama

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I've just been talking to the owner of yet another Siva Llama. Chris Griffin has owned his car from new. It's his only car and the mileage is just coming up to 27,000 miles. He works on a farm and only has to travel about half a mile to work, which he usually cycles. He's regularly covered the chassis in old engine oil and the only things that have rusted so far are the steel brake pipes outboard of the flexible hoses at the rear. Apart from two or three water pump seals and the occasional throttle cable, Chris's car is just as it left the Aylesbury factory. I asked him what attracted him to the Llama in the first place and he said that he was looking for something reliable, fun, adaptable, rustproof and that looked a bit different. He first came across the Siva Llama when it was advertised in one of the farming magazines, probably Farmer's Weekly. He visited the Siva factory in Aylesbury with his father in the summer of 1974 and saw a number of cars under cons...