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AMCO72
02-04-2014, 02:35 AM
bry3500, this is what happens when you sell classic/expensive cars to mobsters, and brats like Justin Bieber. They buy them cos they can. When they go wrong, or they no longer match their latest hair-do, they ditch them and move on to something else.
These twerps shouldn't be able to buy anything more fancy than a Toyota Corolla.

Makes you weep to see these things abandoned. I guess some of them have been saved but of course this should never have happened in the first place.

You are obviously very interested in these poor forgotten machines as you started this thread a couple of years ago and have posted some really interesting stuff.

Cant say I 'enjoy' seeing these pictures but keep them coming.........keeps my adrenaline pumping!!!!!!

Growler
02-04-2014, 03:54 AM
I just wish I was loaded so I can spend my days going around the world buying these cars and restoring/race them...

bry3500
02-20-2014, 05:15 AM
http://www.roadandtrack.com/go/car-culture/priceless-ford-gt40-found-in-garage?src=soc_fcbks

bry3500
07-11-2014, 04:12 AM
http://www.rustinpeacephotos.net/

Oldfart
07-11-2014, 06:08 AM
I believe the bus in #245 is sold!

GeebeeNZ
07-11-2014, 07:16 AM
I believe the bus in #245 is sold!
Do you mean 246

Grant Sprague
07-11-2014, 07:27 AM
Wooooooow just amazing ..never seen these before .........school boys dream ..well big boys dream to come upon these in an old shed ....not so much in NZ..but yes I know there are a few about but nothing like these :cool:

Oldfart
07-11-2014, 09:20 AM
Do you mean 246
Yes

silicanza
07-17-2014, 11:36 AM
25472
Something different- Sitting in Mexico....somewhere

Oldfart
07-17-2014, 08:45 PM
Looks like another one for you Nige

bry3500
07-18-2014, 12:25 AM
From facebook

John McKechnie
07-18-2014, 04:12 AM
Looks straight forward- remove roof outer skin, rear quarters and front guards.
Get body blasted to get rid off rust.
Surprised no one has got on to it

bry3500
07-25-2014, 02:18 AM
another one from Facebook

Allan
07-25-2014, 04:02 AM
25562

markson
07-26-2014, 06:00 AM
Hi John
I would not go to all that trouble
Just a clean up,find some wheels, a coat of paint, and just leave it on a trailor Markson

bry3500
07-31-2014, 05:14 AM
Alfa

bry3500
08-03-2014, 06:32 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlzZqtSeC8

Oldfart
08-03-2014, 06:44 AM
Is there anything on there worth the effort?

Oldfart
08-03-2014, 06:52 AM
Hang on a mo. The Dunny is worth saving along with a handful of Skodas :)

bry3500
08-09-2014, 06:11 AM
Another one from Facebook
Steel body with a Rover V8 - any ideas what it is?

Ross Hollings
08-09-2014, 08:37 PM
Quick rego search via Trade Me /Free says it is based on a 1971 Rover 2000. Looks like South Island to me,black plate is in nice condition though.!!!!!

Oldfart
08-10-2014, 04:02 AM
It's not a buggered about Furi is it?

Jac Mac
08-11-2014, 02:27 AM
Some more factual info on the history of that car ( post #270) on the alan dick autonews facebook page.

Oldfart
08-11-2014, 02:36 AM
Actually his Autonews page Jac, took a wee bit of finding.

Bryan
08-11-2014, 11:00 PM
Actually his Autonews page Jac, took a wee bit of finding.

Autonews Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Autonews-NZ/238723802947384?fref=ts)

bry3500
08-12-2014, 03:28 AM
Assorted Muscle

bry3500
08-12-2014, 03:29 AM
Phil Spectors Daytona Coupe

bry3500
08-12-2014, 04:05 AM
Meanwhile...

Kiwiboss
08-12-2014, 04:22 AM
Didn't it sell for 4.5 million in this condition? makes the M8A look cheap, LOL. Dale M


Phil Spectors Daytona Coupe

Jac Mac
08-12-2014, 05:45 AM
Didn't it sell for 4.5 million in this condition? makes the M8A look cheap, LOL. Dale M
Yes something like that, but I doubt a Kiwi would be allowed to take it out of the USA if he bought it! Think its on that 'protected species' list they introduced a couple of years ago.

RODERICK
08-17-2014, 08:58 AM
Hi I am new to this forum - name "Roderick Rankin" . The Dynafour design was originally discussed at Ted Thompsons workshop in Kumeu and the rolling chassis and 2 Lawrence Power motors were built up by Curley in collaboration with Ted Thompson, this was the car that ran at the Aka Aka sprint. As I had been present at the early discussions about the construction of the car and had shown an interest in the Dynafour Ted Thompson told me about the car being for sale, I purchased the car from Curley as a rolling chassis with the motors out of the chassis. On getting the car home we found that the motors could not be easily put back into the chassis. So myself and my close friend "Colin Beanland" of Bruce McLaren fame cut the chassis off behind the seat bulkhead and rebuilt the rear chassis and modified the suspension at the same time. The motors were then installed. The name DYNAFOUR came from the fact that the Lawrence Power motors were aircraft standby generator motors, generators being DYNAMO'S and there was FOUR cylinders, hence DYNAFOUR. Each motor (approx 500cc each) was a twin opposed air cooled motor, magnesium construction, overhead valve with twin spark plugs per cylinder, magneto ignition, dry sump with crank, big end, little end. rocker gear all running on needle bearings. The motors were coupled together, the rotation of one motor being reversed so that a chain drive sprocket was fixed to the centre coupling, this drive then went to an Albion motor cycle gear box (a weak link) from here the chain drive was to a sprocket on a fixed drive swing axle rear suspension. A lot of the running gear was Renault. The rack and pinion steering being centralized by using two small sprockets and a coupling chain. The timing and ignition system had been reconfigured by Ted Thompson so that one magneto fired a spark plug in each cylinder of the motor it was driven by and a spark plug in each cylinder of the other motor, the same happened withe the other motor/magneto. Each cylinder was fed by an Amal Carb, a challenge to tune. the motors in this configuration would rev to 16,000RPM. Quite a scream. The body was built one saturday when Colin and I took the car plus a sheet of aluminum to a friend of ours Ivan Cranch. Ivan cut the ally by eye and then we were on the end of a wheeling machine with the body ready to trim out by mid afternoon. The wrap around windscreen was formed by cutting a cardboard pattern then perspex, placing my parents CONRAY electric heater on its back in the garage and slowly heating the perspex while rocking it backwards and forwards until the correct curve was achieved, amazingly no distortion. The photos of the hill climbs were with myself driving and were both in the Pukekohe area of South Auckland. First Grand Prix at Pukekohe was cut short as going around the loop at the stables (old circuit) one motor starved of oil due to no baffle in the oil tank, at the revs being pulled there was a large bang with a con rod exiting the side of the crank case. The pieces of the crank case were welded into place by Jim Mcoslum in Newmarket (don't think I have spelt Jim's name correctly) with the other spares I had the motor was rebuilt and I drove the car at a number of club meetings painted Blue. The gear box was always a problem in selecting the correct gear but we had tuned the suspension so that the car had led well even to the stage of passing Jim Boyd in the Cooper Bristol coming over Rothmans at Pukekohe. The car was then sold on to my friend Garth Taylor ( the photo in the Vercoe book is myself driving not Garth). If anyone has any idea as to were the DYNAFOUR ended up or is I would be very interested to know. Rod Rankin. (not Robert )

Oldfart
08-17-2014, 05:43 PM
Thanks for that Rod.
I remember looking at the car with an eye to buying it in Rotorua. I suspect that was 65 or 66. I could drive to the house pretty much central Rotorua still, but never saw it again. Memory tells me it was brown and had a 105e motor crossways in the back with the Dyna motors lying alongside. I asked a few people in Rotorua about the car just last week and there was no memory at all.

John H
08-17-2014, 10:50 PM
Thanks for that Rod.
I remember looking at the car with an eye to buying it in Rotorua. I suspect that was 65 or 66. I could drive to the house pretty much central Rotorua still, but never saw it again. Memory tells me it was brown and had a 105e motor crossways in the back with the Dyna motors lying alongside. I asked a few people in Rotorua about the car just last week and there was no memory at all.

For what its worth I remember this car. Four short exhaust pipes and I seem to remember it was a very wet day at Puke. Also a hill climb somewhere in Bombay? Chrs

RODERICK
08-18-2014, 07:29 AM
Thanks for your comments. I would like to know where the DYNAFOUR ended up as I would be interested in obtaining what may be left of it, any help would be appreciated. 105E installation would have been a very good idea. Lawrence motors in the configuration they were in revved high but not a lot of torque. Cheers Rod.

RODERICK
08-18-2014, 07:33 AM
Quite correct about the exhaust system I could not afford a fancy exhaust so what there was, was built up by a gentleman that lived in Otahuhu, can't rember his name now. Cheers Rod.

stubuchanan
08-18-2014, 08:24 AM
Quite correct about the exhaust system I could not afford a fancy exhaust so what there was, was built up by a gentleman that lived in Otahuhu, can't rember his name now. Cheers Rod.

http://s6.postimg.org/lma11nvqp/Dyna_Four_Paparimu_HC.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

I presume this is the car. Must have been a Pukekohe Car Club Hill Climb around 1964/65(?) and a bit damp as you can see. Would this be quite early in its history, as body looks unpainted and no windscreen or mirrors. Must have been before permanent number plates (mid 65 I think).

I thought I had 1 or 2 pictures from Dave McKinney of the car on a trailer, but can't find them - maybe they were on a posting on this or another forum. I will search further.

Your method of curving the 'screen sounds a bit like how they bent the acrylic viewing tunnels for Kelly Tarlton's underwater place.

Stu Buchanan

jamie
08-18-2014, 08:52 PM
Hi Gang
I remember the car well raced against it many times at hill climbs even at Western springs.
Jamie A

Rod Grimwood
08-18-2014, 09:57 PM
Bry, buy those Dodge's, can not believe they are just sitting there.

Bryan
08-19-2014, 01:47 AM
I thought I had 1 or 2 pictures from Dave McKinney of the car on a trailer, but can't find them - maybe they were on a posting on this or another forum. I will search further.

Your method of curving the 'screen sounds a bit like how they bent the acrylic viewing tunnels for Kelly Tarlton's underwater place.

Stu Buchanan

Dave McKinney's trailer photos are a couple of pages back in this thread, post #219 (http://www.theroaringseason.com/showthread.php?586-Abandoned-Forgotten-Neglected-Race-And-Road-Cars-Thread&p=21002&viewfull=1#post21002).

bob homewood
08-19-2014, 02:41 AM
Yes that is right ,that is it, at the time of that post I found some other photos of it for David ,I will have to go back and see if I can find them again and also I think we sort of put the Rotorua ,BOP connection together a bit more




Dave McKinney's trailer photos are a couple of pages back in this thread, post #219 (http://www.theroaringseason.com/showthread.php?586-Abandoned-Forgotten-Neglected-Race-And-Road-Cars-Thread&p=21002&viewfull=1#post21002).

bry3500
10-26-2014, 06:54 AM
Evel Knievel

Kevin Hirst
10-27-2014, 09:29 PM
Yes that is right ,that is it, at the time of that post I found some other photos of it for David ,I will have to go back and see if I can find them again and also I think we sort of put the Rotorua ,BOP connection together a bit more

Have these same wheels and possibly allthe rest of the bits apart from dyna motorsif any body wants to build one [renault 750/4cv] see cars for sale.

Oldfart
10-27-2014, 11:35 PM
Oh Kev, I thought you had scrapped it!

Kevin Hirst
10-28-2014, 07:34 AM
Oh Kev, I thought you had scrapped it!

No, Reece, I am waiting for you to run out of projects, when do you think that might be? have still got a heap of your tubing waiting for you to do do something there is also a 1000 cc kawasaki sitting beside it, good runner too, cheers Kev.

bry3500
10-28-2014, 07:21 PM
!!

RODERICK
10-31-2014, 07:39 AM
Hi just caught up with your post. Are you talking about the DYNAFOUR? Do you know if anything is left of it? Cheers Rod Rankin

Oldfart
10-31-2014, 05:56 PM
Rod, if you go back through the relevant posts (yes it is the Dynafour or variations of that name) you will see that the apparent last known location was Rotorua in the mid to late 1960s. I have been back there to the house, no one knew anything. Possibly a rented house.

Kevin Hirst
11-02-2014, 08:31 PM
!!

So the weight reduction process is finished, please show rest of restoration.

bry3500
12-02-2014, 01:21 AM
Christmas is coming

bry3500
12-06-2014, 04:30 AM
Recent Barn find

bry3500
12-06-2014, 04:32 AM
Cont'd

bry3500
02-09-2015, 10:12 AM
Tornado

bry3500
02-09-2015, 10:15 AM
That Ferrari in post #301 went for 20 mill...

markson
02-09-2015, 05:11 PM
With or with out the books ???

bry3500
05-25-2015, 04:07 AM
from FB

Rod Grimwood
05-25-2015, 08:20 AM
That Mk3 engine is worth grabbing.

Kevin Hirst
05-25-2015, 07:02 PM
That Mk3 engine is worth grabbing.

Yes, the chrome tappet cover model's always went a lot faster Rod.

Roger Dowding
05-25-2015, 11:54 PM
from FB

I would be looking at the triple carb manifold,and maybe a good Head - Raymond Mays one. My Dad had a Mark 111, as standard, and a mate of mine a Mark11, Zodiac with a twin choke Weber and the said Raymond Mays head, the Zodiac was at Walton,nr Matamata, back in the early 70's.

Rod Grimwood
05-26-2015, 07:42 AM
Cedric Price had a Raymond Mays set up on his Z car in Matamata way back then.

Yea Kevin was thinking about the whole engine as maybe it has some goodies to go with those carbs hanging of it. See it also has extractors no hockey stick on this baby. The chrome cover was only for extra 500 rev's, same as Jo's shopping basket Mk4 Cortina wagon that you breathed on years back, quickest to supermarket and Roadrunner.

Trick in old days with Zephry was Bedford pistons etc, Kevin you would have played with a few of these beauties.

Kevin Hirst
05-26-2015, 07:46 PM
Cedric Price had a Raymond Mays set up on his Z car in Matamata way back then.

Yea Kevin was thinking about the whole engine as maybe it has some goodies to go with those carbs hanging of it. See it also has extractors no hockey stick on this baby. The chrome cover was only for extra 500 rev's, same as Jo's shopping basket Mk4 Cortina wagon that you breathed on years back, quickest to supermarket and Roadrunner.

Trick in old days with Zephry was Bedford pistons etc, Kevin you would have played with a few of these beauties.

Yes true Rod, tried all sorts of things in those days, used to get em going pretty good, I was from Walton but cant recall that one, did you mean the cortina wagon that turned into a mangrove tree hugger, but that is another story isn't it Rod, bit slow getting home that night.

Oldfart
05-27-2015, 04:34 AM
Hell Kev, that Mark 3 looks like a good one for you. No worse than the Reno was :)

Kevin Hirst
05-27-2015, 06:59 PM
Hell Kev, that Mark 3 looks like a good one for you. No worse than the Reno was :)

Well, twice the size = more than I could handle Rhys, reno is still awaiting your pickup, could make a good special out of the zeph like Hampton boy's did in matamata many years ago.

bry3500
08-27-2015, 01:17 AM
another from FB

Roger Dowding
08-27-2015, 06:06 AM
Not quite abandoned, but definately looking neglected, before and after shots.

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the below were the result of a road accident, out trying new tyres ready for the next season of Hill Climbs, 1980/81 series, result was this and a four year rebuild, as life got in the way.
29957

29958

Managed to retain the number plate..

khyndart in CA
08-27-2015, 06:26 AM
Roger,
Judging by the amount of filler in the front valance this is not the first incident that this vehicle has been through !
Hey you can buy a new valance at Moss Motors (USA)for about $ 140.00 (US) Part # 855-100
Looks like someone spent almost that in "Bondo".

(I still love that 1st photo ).

Cheers,
Ken

Roger Dowding
08-27-2015, 07:10 AM
Roger,
Judging by the amount of filler in the front valance this is not the first incident that this vehicle has been through !
Hey you can buy a new valance at Moss Motors (USA)for about $ 140.00 (US) Part # 855-100
Looks like someone spent almost that in "Bondo".

(I still love that 1st photo ).

Cheers,
Ken

Ken, interesting as the " new " bonnet for the TR was from a wreckers yard Foreign Parts West in Eugene Oregon, shipped back to NZ in 1982, and even more interesting is when I sold the car [ in 1985 to help buy a house ] was to a Charles Matschek, an American living in NZ who went to University in Oregon and knew of the wrecking yard, it had a Jaguar XK 120 body as a sign on the roof, imagine that now, what would it be worth.
Must post some photos' from the wrecking yards we saw in this thread, we visited quite a few that summer

bry3500
08-28-2015, 02:34 AM
Anyone ID this one?

bry3500
08-28-2015, 02:39 AM
A couple more

ERC
08-28-2015, 04:02 AM
#317 has a touch of the Costin Nathan about it, but looks to be in aluminium rather than fibreglass (and plywood...).

bry3500
08-28-2015, 05:27 AM
#317 has a touch of the Costin Nathan about it, but looks to be in aluminium rather than fibreglass (and plywood...).

I thought it had a bit of a Len Bailey look. But not quite.

Roger Dowding
08-28-2015, 09:48 AM
Roger,
Judging by the amount of filler in the front valance this is not the first incident that this vehicle has been through !
Hey you can buy a new valance at Moss Motors (USA)for about $ 140.00 (US) Part # 855-100
Looks like someone spent almost that in "Bondo".

(I still love that 1st photo ).

Cheers,
Ken

Ken,
Have had a problem changing my Avatar, and now settled on me in the TR, at Pukekohe, not on that hill.
Did you get the Hill photo in the Moss Motors mag ?? ,
and to your other comment Bondo.. lots, did you notice the curves over the headlights on the bonnet.. the car had been been pranged before, but, mechanicals were great, plus buying it from Russ Abbott, and joining the Auckland branch of the Triumph Club [ then the NZ TR Register ], gave me lots of help. had and oil pipe break on a Hill climb and Russ put a blanking plate on the sender to the gauge so I could continue to run. Mates Ehh!!
29982

something different, don't we love Carbies !!

bry3500
08-29-2015, 04:32 AM
Toyota 7

Oldfart
08-29-2015, 06:15 AM
You find some astonishing stuff!

bry3500
09-07-2015, 05:36 AM
woohoo

bry3500
09-11-2015, 06:03 AM
!!

Roger Dowding
09-11-2015, 06:14 AM
!!

Beautiful, love the filigree grille but mostly the late 30's Chevvy, Was offered back in the early 1970's a 1938 Four Door stovebolt 6, with a new paint job and rebuilt engine for $500 - was too much money at the time as had just bought a house and the mortgage was about 25.00 per week.

Jac Mac
09-11-2015, 07:07 AM
I would have to look at some old firewalls of Fords/Chevs etc to be sure of the coupe body, Ford ?), but that is a 289/302 Ford SB engine in post 325. Not too many Fords in Chevs, more the other way.

Roger Dowding
09-18-2015, 08:59 PM
Bellara is on Bribie Island, in Queensland, North of Brisbane, between, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, it has a lot of interesting cars, including this somewhat neglected Volvo 240GT.
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Roger Dowding
09-19-2015, 08:15 PM
Off to Lakeside today complete with new camera, will post some pics " Sports and Racing cars festival " so maybe some Formula Vee's for John H.

Roger Dowding
10-01-2015, 06:58 AM
Bellara is on Bribie Island, in Queensland, North of Brisbane, between, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, it has a lot of interesting cars, including this somewhat neglected Volvo 240GT.
30388

There are two of them, the second hidden by a boat and a container, so could not get a pic without alerting the owner. a couple of Boys who follow a forum Historic Rally Cars Australia, are interested, must talk to the guy about selling / donating them so they get used for parts or rebuilt, maybe one from the two..

Ray Bell
10-02-2015, 10:05 PM
There's a couple of those lying somewhat neglected after the passing of the owner around the corner from my place...

I might have to start adding to this little collection. One day I found a 6-pack Hemi 6 engine in a shed, well, the owner knew it was there... and in the paddock there was a bunch of stuff varying from a mid-forties Dodge ute to a Mk 3 Zephyr.

In a paddock in Iowa:

https://imageshack.com/i/p6vlFSYbj

https://imageshack.com/i/p8Thy6jTj

Behind a house in Woolbrook:

https://imageshack.com/i/ewOEIpIBj

Restored in Woolbrook:

https://imageshack.com/i/pauBZE9Dj

On a trailer in North Dakota:

https://imageshack.com/i/n62xmnj

In a trailer in Montana:

https://imageshack.com/i/newfgxj

A read of the 'Montana Dodge Boys' website will keep you entertained for some time...

bry3500
10-03-2015, 04:15 AM
Cunningham

bry3500
12-01-2015, 06:42 AM
Based on a Caravelle

Ray Bell
12-04-2015, 05:20 AM
That is simply strange!

Marty
12-04-2015, 06:13 AM
#333 reminds me of Captain Scarlett's car,

bry3500
12-15-2015, 06:31 AM
http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/PICTURES-lifetime-haul-Brough-motorcycles-Cornish/story-28361361-detail/story.html#7

Ray Bell
12-15-2015, 07:12 AM
Send the American Pickers around, they'd love that one!

John McKechnie
12-15-2015, 07:26 AM
Are these the Broughs?

bry3500
12-15-2015, 07:41 AM
Are these the Broughs?

Click on the link John - The full story is there and yes they are Broughs

Allan
12-24-2015, 08:15 PM
What was it?

32323

chaindrive
12-24-2015, 08:23 PM
The grille,nosecone andengine cover are definitely CAE sprint car parts . Now A40 Special ?

ERC
12-24-2015, 09:23 PM
32324


Background red car is even more my cup of tea - Costin...

RogerH
12-26-2015, 04:38 AM
The grille,nosecone andengine cover are definitely CAE sprint car parts . Now A40 Special ?

It has had a long history since 1947 when it was built by Des Herrick as a speedway midget with a B4 engine. Got a Hudson Terraplane engine in 1948 then converted to a circuit car in 1950 with a Model T rear end and a Bugatti box. Then got an A40 engine when the Hudson expired, then a Singer gearbox (when Chris Amon had it) ....... and on it went with each subsequent owner "improving" it. It still has bits of the 1947 midget but not much .... a bit like grandad's axe ....

markson
01-19-2016, 04:00 PM
A line up of Charger's in Aus

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khyndart in CA
02-20-2016, 09:07 PM
Here is an interesting "barn find"
http://blog.hemmings.com/?p=591822

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It would have kept me busy for a while !



(Ken Hyndman )

Roger Dowding
08-14-2018, 04:32 AM
Mike Ryan in the USA has recently found this long forgotten Race Car.
He has been researching the car and has found these two pages of articles about the car !.

56124

an excellent Cutaway of the Car in Corvette guise.
56123


a couple of small photos of the car as found ;

56121

56122

Steve Holmes
08-14-2018, 06:22 AM
Mike Ryan in the USA has recently found this long forgotten Race Car.
He has been researching the car and has found these two pages of articles about the car !.

56124

an excellent Cutaway of the Car in Corvette guise.
56123


a couple of small photos of the car as found ;

56121

56122

Wow, that thing is mega!

Trevor Sheffield
08-14-2018, 07:57 AM
It has had a long history since 1947 when it was built by Des Herrick as a speedway midget with a B4 engine. Got a Hudson Terraplane engine in 1948 then converted to a circuit car in 1950 with a Model T rear end and a Bugatti box. Then got an A40 engine when the Hudson expired, then a Singer gearbox (when Chris Amon had it) ....... and on it went with each subsequent owner "improving" it. It still has bits of the 1947 midget but not much .... a bit like grandad's axe ....

http://ralphwatson.scienceontheweb.net/misc.html

bry3500
09-18-2018, 02:43 AM
http://billthomascheetah.com/btm-news/bill-thomas-cheetah-prototype-aluminum-002-barn-find/

bry3500
06-17-2019, 11:01 AM
From the US

Ray Bell
06-17-2019, 11:33 AM
That second-last pic, the sporty car, seems to have '36 to '39 Ford V8 underpinnings...

Oldfart
06-17-2019, 05:14 PM
I'll have the TVR!

Roger Dowding
06-17-2019, 09:17 PM
That second-last pic, the sporty car, seems to have '36 to '39 Ford V8 underpinnings...

Ray Looks similar to the " Hawaiian ' Corvette ' Special " that Mike Ryan - ex-pat Kiwi recently recovered from a shed and is now restoring.. very similar body but has a tilt front. that seems to have a bonnet [ hood for the Americans ]

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bry3500
06-17-2019, 10:06 PM
Ray Looks similar to the " Hawaiian ' Corvette ' Special " that Mike Ryan - ex-pat Kiwi recently recovered from a shed and is now restoring.. very similar body but has a tilt front. that seems to have a bonnet [ hood for the Americans ]

62239

6224062241

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1959 Devin D

Roger Dowding
06-17-2019, 10:14 PM
1959 Devin D

Think so Bry3500 - Hope it gets restored too !!

Ray Bell
06-18-2019, 12:22 PM
As I recall, the Hawaiian Special has independent suspension all round, whereas it looks to me that the other car has live axles straight from the late 30s Ford.

markson
07-13-2019, 11:19 PM
My newly acquired Stag.
Has been off the road and stored for the last 23 years 62461

bry3500
12-14-2019, 07:16 AM
Supra

bry3500
12-14-2019, 07:19 AM
Mazda Cosmo

Roger Dowding
12-15-2019, 07:11 AM
Mazda Cosmo

bry3500 - never seen one in real life let alone a whole row - even if junkers - in one place !!

bry3500
12-16-2019, 05:09 AM
I've only ever seen one Roger, that was in Melbourne some years ago.
While we are talking Japanese, how about a Toyota 2000GT crushed by a tree.

bry3500
12-16-2019, 05:11 AM
This one was on facebook.

Ray Bell
12-16-2019, 11:11 AM
How could they?

A classic of all time, those wheels look ridiculous!

John McKechnie
12-16-2019, 08:19 PM
They had an open version of this in Bond movie...You only live twice ?

bry3500
12-17-2019, 04:49 AM
They had an open version of this in Bond movie...You only live twice ?

They did! I had a Corgi toy model of it back then.

Roger Dowding
12-17-2019, 08:22 PM
They did! I had a Corgi toy model of it back then.

Missed the Toyota 2000GT but have the Bond Aston Martin DB4 - complete with one hub spike sticking out !!. Was part of the James Bond series of models by a magazine Publishers " Hatchette " or similar.

and as Abandoned Neglected but not forgotten - my back yard in Mt Albert in 1979/80 -

The Sprite got restored by Ross Hollings - the white bonnet went back to its owner and the " carless day " car the A30 went to the wreckers, after the Sprite Carbs were removed.

64498

bry3500
01-30-2020, 06:10 AM
Cheetah
http://billthomascheetah.com/btm-news/bill-thomas-cheetah-prototype-aluminum-002-barn-find/

Ray Bell
01-30-2020, 10:18 AM
My friend Michael raced one of those about ten years ago...

He reckoned it was a good thing.

Roger Dowding
01-31-2020, 04:32 AM
Cheetah, some spare parts for whoever buys John B's one that is only partly built .. just thinking ..

bry3500
09-27-2022, 07:12 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22E6bhlZHOA&ab_channel=ViceGripGarage

bry3500
09-27-2022, 07:14 AM
And more

bry3500
09-27-2022, 07:15 AM
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a32344506/abandoned-porsche-911-race-car-for-sale/

bry3500
09-27-2022, 07:18 AM
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/motorsport/car-graveyard-where-rare-gems-go-die

Oldfart
09-27-2022, 10:23 AM
In post 371 is that a Ferrari v6?

bry3500
10-02-2022, 08:21 AM
In post 371 is that a Ferrari v6?

Apparently part of the Walter Medlin collection https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-walter-medlin-ferrari-collector-prison-20140825-story.html

Ray Bell
10-02-2022, 08:51 PM
It must be a car in F2 form, possibly after the Temporada...

The roll bar shape and back of the cockpit sides are different to the Tasman cars.

Ray Bell
10-03-2022, 12:57 PM
Actually, it's been pointed out to me that we've had this discussion before on this forum...

The identity of the car was established in a thread called Missing Tasman Series Ferrari some seven years ago.

bry3500
10-03-2022, 09:35 PM
Actually, it's been pointed out to me that we've had this discussion before on this forum...

The identity of the car was established in a thread called Missing Tasman Series Ferrari some seven years ago.

http://www.theroaringseason.com/showthread.php?1796-Missing-Tasman-Series-Ferrari

bry3500
11-28-2022, 09:41 AM
Old “garage” complete with trapped 1954 Plodge near Ormondville
Photo and description courtesy Allan Dick