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.

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

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









More to come

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













more to come

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:

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









more to come

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







Still more to follow

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 

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 

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.

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 

Mmmmm Studebaker





And then the very lovely Sunbeam Alpine

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

Quote:

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:

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.