Hi folks
This is my first post here so please be gentle

Here is my old BSA A7 1948 I think. I am now its second owner.




I have now got enough spares to make a second bike , with a plunger frame 1949.
The bikes history is known to me and, it is quite special as it belonged to a local character who ran a motorcycle repair come village shop in a remote part of Shetland.
I would like your opinion on the following points.

I believe some parts on it are not genuine, like the headlight and front mudguard. Can anyone confirm this, I don?t want to waste time restoring something that?s not original.
Where would you start?
What would you do with the sidecar?
I had thought of keeping the sidecar chassis and trying to build something like this i found in the national motor cycle museum later on.

What do you think its worth at the moment (just curious I am not selling).
Any useful tips and advice gratefully received.
These are the photos of it still in the barn

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The exhaust is tissue thin


