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shamlessly stolen from NSRA, again, I must knock that on the head, anyway, a few photos of Ed Turner's Unusual Autos showroom from way back when. When I was a kid I used to look at their adverts in Custom Car, Street Machine and the like and think "wow". And now, I look at the photos and think "wow!" wow!! Wow!!! It seems these photos are from 1990. Anyone know of anything like this still trading?
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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That would be a great thing to do... I guess there are some people around specialising in retro cars, but not so many specialising in modified cars.
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I suspect that offering a statutory warranty on a home build car would be a brave thing in this day and age as would proving something like a V8'd Pop to be "merchantable quality" etc,
There are a few people who do deal in modified cars/rods etc but not AFAIK out of a proper show room like that.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Seth
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Always wanted to go down and have a nosey. I was too young. Then it closed I think the market for that kind of car is so tricky and fickle it would be very difficult to do anything other than end up wiht a load of stock that wouldn't shift.
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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or you'd end up trying to turn it into a car museum... www.uscc.co.ukI think he's in a proper showroom. Some of those cars have been there a long time.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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More memories ;D my uncle used to live in Hayes many moons ago, i remember going to visit him when i was about 10 years old and he took me to have a look around Ed turners cos i was obsessed with hot rods/yanks...spent a lot of time looking at a bronze '55 Chevy Aah, this was about 1990
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'85 BMW M535i, '79 Vespa 50 Special, '78 Opel Kadett 1.2S. Rust is not a crime, thankfully.
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Super Cool.
Sadly you just wouldn't be able to do something like that now. Spiralling rents on prominent sites and the rise of the web as your showroom means that specialist forecourts are a thing of the past.
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maybe we should all jack our jobs in,chip together ,rent a pitch ,put up the bunting, then fill it it with retro and custom cars ,whilst our houses are re-posessed and our families leave us!!!!!!! yeah rock 'n' roll
well u can dream!!!
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yes ,it started badly ,petered off in the middle and the least said about the end the better!!!
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That is what we are doing,in a smaller way and we have a type of showroom being built.
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stealthstylz
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Now thats a dealer....stealthstylz
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As said above, was a great idea but wouldn't work now. Lifestyle Classics are ripoff merchants, know a few people who've had major problems with them, plus his prices are ridiculous. When Kev Reliander emigrated he offer me his Pontiac Lo-Lo for £7k. I didn't have the cash (and I was 16 years old lol) so he sold it to LCA, who then tried to resell it for £25k or something daft. They've still got it by the looks. Matt
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Think i was about 15 when i pestered my dad to take me to Ed's place , a memory i will never forget , lusted after everything he had , Top bloke as well , took time to speak to me and show me round the cars although he knew he would'nt be getting a sale , These places are part of our hot rod history .
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Just out of curiousity I ran a few of them plates through dvla the red pop in pic 1 is now white and taxed till 12/2009 the black pop in pic 2 is still taxed till 09/2009 the red pop in pic 3 is now green and still taxed , also 09/2009 Its great to think that all 3 pops have survived although VED 207 is the only one on the MID
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specialist buyers ,buying from specialist dealer = cars that last!!!!
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yes ,it started badly ,petered off in the middle and the least said about the end the better!!!
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or you'd end up trying to turn it into a car museum... www.uscc.co.ukI think he's in a proper showroom. Some of those cars have been there a long time. Coz he's a ripoff shankster, and the cars will prbably remain there until they rot into non-existance. Sweet and Sour was burnt out in a fire at Elo's old warehouse, I don't know why he still advertises it, everything from the B-pillar back was consumed. It looked a lot better before Kev gold-plated everything in site. This pic from LRM shows it when it had just the right balance of chrome and gold.
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stealthstylz
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Now thats a dealer....stealthstylz
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Yeah I preferred it like that. I can remember having a few conversations about the original sex of that model.
Matt
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lets not get into calling people names, eh... whether they deserve it or not...
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Jan 10, 2009 10:27:14 GMT
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Problem being i spose u'd get way too many people, more than normal dealers, JUST looking, bored and treating it as a minicar show.
But there is a chap by me, Used to deal in "normal cars" my dad's brought loads from him, Decent chap and honest. Now he's full of retro and interesting, Old Mercs, jags and BMW's mostly, But odd Alegreo, Granada, Beetle, Austins, BL's etc etc. He finds it makes him more ££££ at the moment. Seems peope do want retro and different.
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Jan 10, 2009 15:12:17 GMT
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Yeah, but as long as you sold enough to get by, wouldn't you mind folk walking in off the street to have a chat and gawp at cars the wife will disapprove of? If there's that many, have a little selection of t-shirts and stickers to sell them instead of a car.
I'd love it, I really would. A dealer that knew his stuff, selling modified cars. Takes standard stuff in px and sends it down the auction to restock on V6 Capris and lowered 30-year-old Passats. Bulk it out with a workshop out back doing little jobs like banding wheels and chopping springs.
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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Jan 10, 2009 17:16:11 GMT
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From what I've read, most 'classic' car dealers don't mind poeple just coming in for a chat/gawp... Today's gawper is tommorow's buyer...
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault.
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