Eastern Creek Classic 22 August 2010 - Dial up warning - low VW content

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 8:48 pm

Evening all,

Rolled along to the Eastern Creek Classic today and saw a huge number of cars, a few of which I'll share with you

Let's start with the Alfas:

And the Montreal yum

(read more about it hear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Montreal )

Note how the gear shift is sitting up on a little box:

Now for an Austin 7

There were quite a number of these and you forget how tiny they are. One limped back in following a genteel parade lap weeing coolant all over the place.

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 8:49 pm

Now for this piece of Australian Motoring History

The Buckle GT 2.5

Read more here: http://www.carsguide.com.au/site/news-and-reviews/car-news/my_buckle_gt_tourer

More to follow

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 8:51 pm

Then came the Cadillacs. My knowledge of which is imperfect:

More to come

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 8:55 pm

Then we'll chuck in a few other yank tanks:

more to come

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 8:58 pm

Then onto Fiats:

When I was a kid I remember getting a matchbox model of one of these and wanting the full size one desperately. Now... not so much

Given this is Australia I'd feel guilty if I didn't include a photo of one of these:

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 8:59 pm

So next up some Fords. See if you can guess which type is from England and which ones are from America....

more to come

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 9:01 pm

While we're talking Fords we'll have fun, fun, fun in the T-birds:

Still more to follow

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 9:04 pm

Lincolns are Fords aren't they??

Anyway, here is a car far longer than it really needs to be:

According to the web, this sucker is 5.92 metres long

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Continental

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 9:07 pm

Now we've got the big ugly cars out of the way, we'll look at some more:

This is a 1904 Innes. So far google hasn't helped explain anything about this one:

Then the Jowett Jupiter.

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jowett_Jupiter

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 9:09 pm

Messerschmitt time

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200

I actually remember walking to school in the late 80s/early 90s and someone around Baulkham Hills used to drive one of these quite regularly.

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 9:12 pm

When you get caught up in the minor differences between the different year model Beetles and Kombis and so on, you forget that some other cars also changed a lot. Seeing these two stuck together reminded me of that:

I'm also not sure what was going on with the back of this one and whether it was a factory job or not:

A rear engined cousion that we try not to talk about (although I think it looks quite good):

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Dauphine

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 9:14 pm

Mmmmm Studebaker

And then the very lovely Sunbeam Alpine

More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbeam_Alpine

Pollywaffle · 22 Aug 2010, 9:15 pm

I saw these two minis today when I was driving home from Palm Beach. They looked great.

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 9:17 pm

Our aircooled cousins:

The white one here is for sale $65,000 I think, I have a photo of the phone number if anyone is interested:

The best one was in the car park:

Craig S · 22 Aug 2010, 9:19 pm

And finally the VWs

I didn't spend much time looking at them, but I did dwell over this kg

I think that's it, I hope you enjoy them.

Phil74Camper · 23 Aug 2010, 7:58 am

Gwendolyns Master wrote:I didn't spend much time looking at them

Why not?

t1 time · 23 Aug 2010, 4:32 pm

Phil74Camper wrote:
Gwendolyns Master wrote:I didn't spend much time looking at them
Why not?

With so many motoring delights to inspect why waste time on the Volkswagens that we see all the time, smart thinking Gwendolyn.