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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Ned Ludd, Jul 27, 2012.

  1. roadsterlines
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    Australian Motor Sports, January 1950; State Library of Victoria 053 - 1.jpg 054 - 1.jpg 055 - 1.jpg 055 - 2.jpg
     
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    Australian Motor Sports, September 1949 (State Library of Victoria) 041 - 1.jpg 042 - 1.jpg 042 - 2.jpg 039 - 1.jpg 040 - 1.jpg 040 - 2.jpg
     
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    No details on this car, but the body is not MG. March/April 1953 Australian Motor Sports magazine; State Library of Victoria 088 - 1.jpg
     
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    Australian Motor Sports Aug/Sept 1953; State Library of Victoria 108 - 1.jpg
     
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    Underslung!!!! Really cool, I have never seen that on a race car, thanks for posting
     
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    Australian Motor Sports Sept. 1953; State Library of Victoria 109 - 1.jpg 110 - 1.jpg 111 - 1.jpg 112 - 1.jpg 113 - 1.jpg
     
  7. Came across this photo with the description "Safety Beach races, Dromana", ( Victoria, Australia.) I was born 1953 in the Dromana hospital, just across the road from the beach. Description goes on to mention the two ladies had their hair done in that style as otherwise the helmets would'nt fit. Early girl power :D

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    The Innis Special; article is from Australian Motor Sports magazine, March 1947. First advertisement, with car for sale in Melbourne for 650 pounds, is from AMS June 1947. Second advertisement is from AMS September 1948, with car for sale in Sydney for 375 pounds. 033 - 1.jpg 034 - 1.jpg 034 - 2.jpg 056 - 1.jpg
     
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    Innis Special at Ballarat races January 1947. Lots of top-line drivers and cars were at that meeting. Photo by George Thomas; State Library of Victoria. is014754 -1.jpg
     
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    Australian Motor Sports, March 1955; State Library of Victoria 046 - 1.jpg 046 - 3.jpg 046 - 4.jpg 046 - 2.jpg
     
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    Australian Motor Sports, May 1948; State Library of Victoria 053 - 1.jpg 053 - 2.jpg 054 - 2.jpg 054 - 1.jpg
     
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    ^^^ love that paragraph about the engine. “- - - pistons - - - & head - - -which seem on occasion no discomfort to the original Ford “A” connecting rods.” Think that means the rods did not break. The kings English?
     
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    This is the last paragraph from a previous post on an Alvis-Mercury Special; Australian Motor Sports editor Arthur Wylie is writing about Laurie Oxenford, the builder of the Alvis-Mercury ......... Wylie seems to have had a peculiar sense of humour and he must have known Laurie well, to be making a joke about Laurie's broken leg. 055 - 89.jpg
     
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  15. AccurateMike
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    Interesting. Anglia grille, looks like mid thirties glass fenders maybe parts of a TD tub. With a Chevy 6cyl... Wonder when it was built ?
    Mike
     
  16. [QUOTE="AccurateMike, post: 15739718,
    Interesting. Anglia grille, looks like mid thirties glass fenders maybe parts of a TD tub. With a Chevy 6cyl... Wonder when it was built ? Mike[/QUOTE]

    Does look like a poor effort to replicate a Anglia grille . BMW had a similar grille in 1937 and i think thats what the builder was after. Don,t know what was said in the film as i could,nt get any sound.

    BMW 327 328.jpg 1937 BMW 328 Roadster.jpg
     

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