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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 08:48 PM |
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Eastern Creek Classic 22 August 2010 - Dial up warning - low VW content
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.
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 08:49 PM |
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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
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 08:51 PM |
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Then came the Cadillacs. My knowledge of which is imperfect:
More to come
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 08:55 PM |
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Then we'll chuck in a few other yank tanks:
more to come
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 08:58 PM |
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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:
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 08:59 PM |
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So next up some Fords. See if you can guess which type is from England and which ones are from America....
more to come
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 09:01 PM |
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While we're talking Fords we'll have fun, fun, fun in the T-birds:
Still more to follow
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 09:04 PM |
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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
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 09:07 PM |
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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
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 09:09 PM |
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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.
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 09:12 PM |
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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
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 09:14 PM |
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Mmmmm Studebaker
And then the very lovely Sunbeam Alpine
More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbeam_Alpine
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 09:15 PM |
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I saw these two minis today when I was driving home from Palm Beach. They looked great.
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 09:17 PM |
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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:
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| posted on August 22nd, 2010 at 09:19 PM |
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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.
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| posted on August 23rd, 2010 at 07:58 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Gwendolyns Master
I didn't spend much time looking at them
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Why not?
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| posted on August 23rd, 2010 at 04:32 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Phil74Camper
| Quote: | Originally
posted by Gwendolyns Master
I didn't spend much time looking at them
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Why not?
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With so many motoring delights to inspect why waste time on the Volkswagens that we see all the time, smart thinking Gwendolyn.
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