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Post by Tom on Jul 7, 2024 0:34:31 GMT -5
Not common here either, love it!
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Post by 105epaul on Jul 7, 2024 6:45:59 GMT -5
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Post by Tom on Jul 7, 2024 9:02:17 GMT -5
Amazing show, love your friend's Morris!
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Jul 7, 2024 10:18:37 GMT -5
Great show! The E-type, the MGs and the Daimler are my favourite! The “World Egg Throwing Championship” was mentioned in one of our local TV channels!  |
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Post by oldirish33 on Jul 7, 2024 10:22:52 GMT -5
Lovely cars! I am particularly drawn to the brass era cars and the Morris is a stand out! What patina! I'd love to drive home that Austin Six Estate! A very rare sight on this side of the Atlantic, this early 60's ISO Rivolta showed up at our local cars & coffee yesterday morning. Sorry about the glare, just a quick pic before I had to leave to go set up chairs for another event.  |
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Post by Tom on Jul 7, 2024 11:31:36 GMT -5
Beautiful!
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Jul 7, 2024 12:38:13 GMT -5
That’s stunning! 🖤
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Post by Alfaholic on Jul 7, 2024 21:05:22 GMT -5
Paul, these cars are not really in my wheelhouse, but it looks like a great day out with some real gems to be seen in a 'local" gathering. The Dellow does peak my interest a bit.
Whereas Jerry, you are right on point here with that lovely Iso - it looks brand new (in a good way).
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Post by WallOfCars on Jul 7, 2024 22:16:24 GMT -5
Jerry, what an absolute masterpiece. ISO is arguably my favorite marque of all time, in a close race with DeTomaso. The story, the cars...it's all so dramatic I still get excited thinking about  I will forever link the Rivolta to the Gordon-Keeble. While the Rivolta is credited to Bertone, there has always been a rumour from the Giugiaro camp that Bertone 'copied' the design of the Gordon-Keeble, which was actually a very young Giugiaro's first credited automobile design. I think they're both lovely, so it's hard to pick a favorite. At the risk of boring redundancy, I always love to tell anyone who will listen that the rarest car I've ever been in (to this point) was a Gordon-Keeble back in 1995. Thanks for sharing more of the NW automotive stockpile... |
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Jul 8, 2024 0:16:49 GMT -5
Jerry, what an absolute masterpiece. ISO is arguably my favorite marque of all time, in a close race with DeTomaso. The story, the cars...it's all so dramatic I still get excited thinking about I will forever link the Rivolta to the Gordon-Keeble. While the Rivolta is credited to Bertone, there has always been a rumour from the Giugiaro camp that Bertone 'copied' the design of the Gordon-Keeble, which was actually a very young Giugiaro's first credited automobile design. I think they're both lovely, so it's hard to pick a favorite. At the risk of boring redundancy, I always love to tell anyone who will listen that the rarest car I've ever been in (to this point) was a Gordon-Keeble back in 1995. Thanks for sharing more of the NW automotive stockpile... I believe that both the Gordon-Keeble and the ISO Rivolta were designed by Giugiaro while he was working for Bertone!  |
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Post by WallOfCars on Jul 8, 2024 7:31:57 GMT -5
Jerry, what an absolute masterpiece. ISO is arguably my favorite marque of all time, in a close race with DeTomaso. The story, the cars...it's all so dramatic I still get excited thinking about I will forever link the Rivolta to the Gordon-Keeble. While the Rivolta is credited to Bertone, there has always been a rumour from the Giugiaro camp that Bertone 'copied' the design of the Gordon-Keeble, which was actually a very young Giugiaro's first credited automobile design. I think they're both lovely, so it's hard to pick a favorite. At the risk of boring redundancy, I always love to tell anyone who will listen that the rarest car I've ever been in (to this point) was a Gordon-Keeble back in 1995. Thanks for sharing more of the NW automotive stockpile... I believe that both the Gordon-Keeble and the ISO Rivolta were designed by Giugiaro while he was working for Bertone! Julio, it is my understanding as I had mentioned that the Gordon-Keeble was Giugiaros first credited design in 1960, a year before the Rivolta. Although Giugiaro may historically get credit for the Rivolta too, I've read that a Gordon-Keeble was somehow borrowed from G-K by Bertone and returned with scribe marks and the Rivolta appeared shortly thereafter. That's why I've perpetuated the rumour there was some form of copying, even IF at the hand of the same designer. They do share the same basic layout, dimensions, and drivetrain which makes this all very believable. Unfortunately I no longer have my copy of the Iso Rivolta: The Men, the Machines as I gifted it to a friend in the scale model business. |
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Jul 8, 2024 19:40:42 GMT -5
I believe that both the Gordon-Keeble and the ISO Rivolta were designed by Giugiaro while he was working for Bertone! Julio, it is my understanding as I had mentioned that the Gordon-Keeble was Giugiaros first credited design in 1960, a year before the Rivolta. Although Giugiaro may historically get credit for the Rivolta too, I've read that a Gordon-Keeble was somehow borrowed from G-K by Bertone and returned with scribe marks and the Rivolta appeared shortly thereafter. That's why I've perpetuated the rumour there was some form of copying, even IF at the hand of the same designer. They do share the same basic layout, dimensions, and drivetrain which makes this all very believable. Unfortunately I no longer have my copy of the Iso Rivolta: The Men, the Machines as I gifted it to a friend in the scale model business. Well BB, I’ve just checked my books on both Giugiaro and Bertone and, they don’t say anything close to the story you’ve mentioned. Both books state that Giugiaro’s first design at Bertone was the Alfa Romeo 2000 Sprint followed shortly by the Gordon Keeble, although the G-K wasn’t built until a couple of years later, even after the ISO Rivolta was shown to the public. I’m thinking that, in any case, it was the Peerless GT the car that Mr. Gordon could have shown Bertone, in order for young, recently hired Giugiaro to begin working on the Gordon-Keeble. |
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Post by WallOfCars on Jul 8, 2024 20:23:06 GMT -5
These are fuzzy memories for me Julio. I'm glad you've mentioned all of this because I vaguely remember the Peerless GT AND the Alfa 2000 Sprint also being parts of the puzzle surrounding the Gordon-Keeble. There certainly was a rumor of scribes marks as I mentioned, but perhaps it occurred differently than what I recollected? I want to say that Wood and Pickett (the Mini modifier) also played into the Gordon-Keeble development, but at this point I won't commit to any of it. Again, these are things I studied almost 30 years ago, pre-internet. I do wish I still had my ISO book, which is still fairly recent, not for anything to do with G-K, but for its relevance to ISO. After all of this talk, I think I know what my next shared pics might be? Always great to learn from other's knowledge and memories, one of the better sides of the forums such as this one UPDATE: Just did a bit more digging and I see that 'Williams & Pritchard' had a G-K association, so scratch out my comment above for Wood and Pickett. Think my mind is more on building homes right now, than automotive history I'll see myself out, hahah! |
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Post by reeft1 on Jul 8, 2024 23:31:58 GMT -5
MF TC and PA and Iso are my picks
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Post by 105epaul on Jul 9, 2024 12:17:59 GMT -5
On with a few more photos from the show last Sunday, thanks for the comments guys. Oh with regard to the mention of the Gordon-Keeble a now sadly late friend told me that he once owned chassis #1, he said that a business man from Hong Kong bought it and that may be where it still lives. MG? Nope, it's a 1935 Singer 9HP Le Mans Special Speed, I like it.    Little red estate is a 1948 Bradford 6 Light Utility which would have been made by Jowett Cars, it features a flat twin engine giving all of 19HP, these were sold from 1947-53.   I think this is a 1938 Austin 18/6 Windsor  Another Austin, this is a 1947 10 GSI  And the car that replaced it in 1948, the Austin Devon which was introduced in 1948. This is a 1950 model.  1949 Land Rover Series 1 80" also owned by the brother of my friend with the 1924 Morris  A couple of BMC/BL cars, the once ubiquitous Morris 1100 and the Austin Maxi. Both were in excellent condition.   One for Tom, a super rare VW Schwimmwagen (I think that's what it's called). The owner said he had got it up to 23mph on the way there!    Very yellow Jensen Interceptor, my local MP owns one.  Much more muted yellow Anglia before its brake stuck and a late model Wolseley 1500  Volvo 145 estate with slightly odd two tone paint  Lovely 1955 Austin A90 Westminster, it went burbling past my house on the Saturday when I was in my garage checking the Anglia  Cute pair of Austin A35 saloons, these are affectionately nicknamed Peanuts here. I had a black one.  1956 Morris J Type Royal Mail van, the Post office specified rubber wings/fenders for their vehicles which saved them being replaced when metal ones would have been dented   1958 Wolseley 1500, another sadly deceased friend had a lovely one in this colour for years  Rare 1955 Hillman Minx convertible, the car which donated its rear lights to the rather more expensive AC Ace & Cobra   |
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