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Look at the back window on the Jensen. Can I see tape? If I can, that is probably the reason she was parked-up, a smashed window. Those huge back screens on the Jensen were/are worth just about as much as the rest of the car, if you can find one. The rest looks pretty good. Is not an FF though....only a single air grill along the side, so was a bit less complicated than the 4WD version. Still a thumping good motor car.
Second to last pic looks a bit Saabish.
The top pictures......sort of under the tarp, a Triumph Spitfire, the other ??????????
Yes of course, they are both Spitfires.
No, thats no Saab......could it be an Edsel?
Saab looker under the tree is an Alfa AMC072
More likely a Crosley, I would have thought
David, with your encyclopeadic knowledge of motor cars, I hesitate to question you on an identification, and as there is no exclamation mark after the word 'thought', I have to presume you are not kidding us. Just exactly which car do you think is a Crosley. Crosley spelt with one S, as against Crossley, a very prestigious vintage touring car, with a beautiful V radiator. The only Crosley, one S, that I can think of, was a terrible American concoction of the early fifties, and the only suitable description of the car I can give comes from the ubiquitous Tom McCahill........Crosley Super Sports....'This thousand dollar tobacco can on casters can't take on an Allard, but it wont give your bank roll an extra large shellacking either' !!!!!!!!! I await your reply.
McCahill WAS a bit of a blow-hard............Candy Poole's PBX..Crosley-based racer showed up well in the under 1500cc classes on the east coast of the US.................32 finishes out of 35 starts and a whole lot of class wins along the way..............there were numerous Crosley-based 'specials' racing in period.
Not forgetting the 1950 Sebring event.............won by a Crosley. ... that was singularly ill-suited or prepared for the race
I think Tom, and not forgetting dog 'Joe' thought that the Crosley went rather well, despite his rather colourful description of it!! In fact it probably could have beaten an MG TC in the under 1500cc class. But a frightful looking thing. Tom's reports certainly make for entertaining reading, if you like that sort of thing.....I do.
Bry3500, do you know the man named Brett Richardson that posted this these pictures of the Escort on facebook? I have been trying to get hold of him via Facebook messages but no reply? Im keen to get some photos of this car to compare to the ex Harrington/metropolitan car I have with also ran OCSA. Maybe some usable bits? who knows?Maybe he just doesnt want me to know where this car is?
I Find it frustrating that these guys post pics of these cars saying "what a waste" or 'Nooooooooo!' but yet they wont tell anyone where these great rotting cars are?
1949 Crosley chassis fiberglass bodied barn find
Duncan, who raced the "other" Lycoming Special in South Island events in the 1950's, was an avid hoarder of cars. When he died a few years ago, he had about 300 cars in various states of repair at 2 addresses in Richmond, and more (which couldn't be recovered) at his original home at Leslie Hills, North Canterbury. A few examples :
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http://s6.postimage.org/3qqz028hd/Fiat_Stude.jpg
Photos are from a story in "Heaps More Grady's People" by Don Grady, Nelson.
It is a human peculiarity that some are compelled to hoard all manner of things, cars particularly. If you Google "Alex and Imogene Miller (of East Orange, Vermont) you will find the story of a couple who, over many years, hoarded Stutz cars, Bearcats and other models in sheds and barns made of scrap materials built with recycled nails on a ramshackle farm property. Neighbours thought they were impoverished recluses, but the eventual auction netted millions, most of which went to the IRS for unpaid taxes!
Stu
Australian Owner requires info
http://users.tpg.com.au/normv/RACECAR/RACECAR.html
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Nice one Bry.
In 1982 a group of members of the Austin Healey Club NZ attended the 30th anniversary of A-H in the US.
While in L.A. we were interested in finding a few parts for the various cars we owned or were restoring as
used spares for British sports cars in NZ at that time were rare and expensive.
We were directed to Foreign Parts West by the LA club members as a good example of a typical wreaking yard
and it was owned by a couple who were also LA AH cub members which was a bonus.
This was at a time before classic car prices soared in the mid 80's and a lot of non too rusty cars were bought up
by others around the world who also discovered these goldmines in the "drier" States.
As you can imagine we were completely blown away by what we found in these yards.
I rediscovered these old slides the other day - not the greatest quality, but fun to look at.
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If I remember rightly the lines of virtually complete cars parked out front could be purchased as is but if they didn't sell they were broken up.
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Wow, just awesome! Thanks for sharing those BMC.
A few more
Again, I hate to question your knowledge, but is that not another Spitfire? So much positive camber (swing axle rear on a Spit, vs beam axle) and the stud pattern on the wheels is very Triumph looking, whereas the photos I have of the Crosley are very distinctive.
Absolutely no doubt about it Oldfart. They are twins, as I said in P123. For a start the Crosley does not have a front that lifts up, although the front has lifted and completely gone on one of them.. the swage line along the door, positive camber rear axle, same instrument panel, same windscreen, windup windows. The bloke must have been going to make one out of two, instead both have died and gone to heaven. Our American correspondent had some good things to say about the Crosley, and the stuff he has unearthed seems to back this up, but I will bet my bottom dollar that not one car has survived.
The Torino stock car in post 143 is pretty cool. I wonder if its still sitting there.
Re that Escort OSCA racer posted at the start of this thread, has anyone got any photos from when it was racing?
This was on Facebook
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;)....the Roaring Season as a 'NEW' reality game......Hot of the press,Free!!!!!...with every 6 Tee shirts purchased.....:confused: 'FIND OUR DALE ':confused:...spend hours looking through Mustang wrecking yards,:)fun for the 'Whole Family'...more fun for Dale!!!!!......MJ:cool::cool:
More neglect
Hey Markson.....your favourite car, and my least favourite car. Last pic, a series 5 Alpine, might even be a Tiger judging by the gap in the chrome side trim where someone has removed a name......'Tiger' being the most desirable name to pinch, I would have thought.
Then from top of post 154.......XK 140; a couple of very interesting machines...American ?; A Peerless; Lotus Elan; Next, Texas plate?????; then the Sunbeam.
Markson, my Alpine was a BIT better than that. The reason I think it may be a Tiger are the wheels fitted to it, but I'm sure you will put me right on that.
The Peerless was Triumph TR3 powered, and did well in the 1958 LeMans race finishing 16th overall, and winning the 2 litre GT class.
Right on the money AMCO72..it's a Tiger for sure.... 2nd from the top is a 1958 Devin, the Texas plated car a Corvair.
Yes of course, a Corvair. You can see the grill along the base of the rear window.
Wasn't it the Corvair that got Mr. Ralph Nader's tits in a tangle...... 'Unsafe at any Speed'..... and started the big 'anti car' revolution.
It sure was, when i worked for Ernie Ransley back in the day, we had a Corviar Monza Spider in to work on . It was turbo charged,surely before Saab, who most people list as the first turbo charged car and had the dreaded swing axle which Nader took a dislike to, forgetting that Volkswagen and a few others had it as well. It or NSU started the dog bone grill of Mk1 Escort and Simca fame.
Here is an old one, I'm sure alot of you have seen...
Some of you say neglect.....think opportunaty!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhMMPa3tQKM&feature
So this is where they all went Graham Attachment 9448