Swingman wrote:
Steve Turner wrote:
Swingman wrote:
Steve Turner wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:34:54 -0600, the infamous Steve Turner
scrawled the following:

(inside pic of Bentley dash)

What, a 4,500RPM redline?!? She ain't no sporty job, is she?

Well, it *looked* pretty sporty to me. Here's another pic.

Damn ... I think I saw that same car, in Elgin, Tx, at the Elgin
Hogeye Festival??

Don't know about that; this picture was taken at Old Settler's Park in
Round Rock, at the "Texas All British Car Day"
(http://www.txabcd.org). Put it on your calender for next year; it's
a pretty worthwhile event if you have any interest in British cars of
all vintages.

That's only 30 miles from Elgin, and they had a vintage car show as part
of the "festivities" at Elgin, just this last October. Leon may remember
seeing it as we took a day trip with our wives to let them see a kitchen
we did in Elgin, and go to the festival.

Let me make both of us sick, with regret ...

I, as a young man, due to just being married and basically broke, and
while living in England in the early 60's and working at Heston Aircraft
Corporation outside of Hounslow (an old Spitfire factory known for being
the landing place of Chamberlain when he came back from his meeting with
Hitler), _missed_ a chance to by a late 30's Silver Cloud, CHEAP!!

sick again just thinking about it

The Rolls belonged to one of the directors of the company, had who taken
a liking to me as the only Yank around, and it had been sitting on
blocks, in a secluded warehouse on the factory grounds, since before
WWII !!

I visited that thing on a daily basis while I worked there, and Sir
James (an ex Battle of Britian Spitfire pilot) finally quoted me a price
of 400 pounds Sterling, which was a little over US$1000.00 at the time.
I could come up the purchase price, but couldn't come up with the cash
to get it back across the pond to the US.

It was complete, but hadn't been started for years, had the lamps
removed and sitting, wrapped up, in the boot. Tires (tyres) were dry
rotted, but not a spot of rust, leather needed some restoring, and the
paint job was a little dull.

About ten years later I took a European discharge and went back to visit
family there, and attempted to look up Sir James, but he was gone, and
so was the car. Just my luck.

Man, I wanted that car! ... still think about the "what if" if I could
have just got it back from overseas. sigh

Damn Karl, that's one of the saddest stories I've ever heard...
sob!
snort!
sniff!

I have my own sad story regarding a Porsche 914/6, but I'm too choked up to get into it...
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On a lighter note, have you been to the car museum out in Rosanky TX?

http://ctmah.org/
(the website's not very impressive, but the museum IS)

It's out in the middle of nowhere, but it's worth the drive. Several old Rolls Royces (some
older than what you mentioned) and many other very impressive marques: Bugatti, Pierce
Arrow, Duesenberg, Cord, Auburn, Cadillac, Packard, Stutz, etc, etc. They even have a
Mercedes Gull Wing! A friend of mine from Missouri visits me almost every year, and we
never tire of going; it takes us about three or four hours to get through the whole thing!

However, the same owner recently opened up a similar sister museum in San Marcos, and he
moved some of the better cars to that location, so you might want to visit both places. :-)

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