Something has made my day!
When I was a callow youth in the late ‘60s, I bought a 1947 Lea Francis Sports like those shown here:
http://www.lfoc.co.uk/vehicle/lea-francis-14hp-sports-1947-1949/ .
Only 120 were ever built, so they were rare 40 years ago, never mind today. It was great fun, but had to go after I got married in 1969; my wife couldn’t stamp hard enough on the rod brakes, and never really mastered the manual advance and retard

A fit of nostalgia took me to the LF Owner’s Club website and the photos in that link. On a whim, I emailed the club registrar to ask if he knew anything of DRS 209 (the registration number of my car). He replied:
“Thanks for your enquiry. You'll be glad to know that your car is surviving in good shape, and is in our Club. I see it at our annual rallies most years. Maybe you'd like to come along to Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire on the second weekend of June (or maybe the first) and you'd stand a good chance of seeing it!”
He also offered to put me in touch with the present owner.
Knowing that it has survived and seems to be in good hands has really cheered me up on a dull January day.

The car and I both date from 1947. I’m worried about seeing it again, because a comparison between its present condition and mine will show that the years have treated me less kindly than the car.
Andy