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Went to Como gardens on the weekend and George the owner of the property has a small private collection of vehicles in his shed that i thought might be of interest to some.




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Bugatti, they started this thing up and gave it a rev, sounded magnificent !

1936 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet C

Bentleigh

1935 Railton Light Sports Special

Austin Martin

Cooper BRM T75 built for the 1965 European season with Jackie Stewart as principal driver


1903 Peugeot Type 56

1924 Vauxhall

1903 Oldsmobile

1896 Benz

and an Indian sitting under the stairwell
Hope i got all the information in the correct order

Some serious dollars in that collection

I'm presiming the white/green F1 car is the Williams that Alan Jones drove?

WOW!!! some nice machines there

Thanks for posting the pics up
Some interesting cars for sure

Would be worth a small fortune, or a large one

Geezzzz you got me with the first picture, I would love a Riley

Mick

Just to top it off he has a miniture train set


There were some guy's giving a guided tour but i was volunteering on the day and didn't have the time to get all the info but they spent half hour talking about the F1 and the cooper, just wish i had the time to listen to the stories.

there were more vehicles on display but the flash didn't go off so theres another 4 cars that i havn't posted, its nice to have $$$$$$

newman wrote:Geezzzz you got me with the first picture, I would love a Riley

Mick

Mick, my father has been into Rileys since the 60s. He has one of the rare factory roadsters. I enquired about the cost of an engine rebuild the other day for him. Just the cost of parts is $6K.
But they were streets ahead of the Holdens in their day. Crossflow hemi head, twin 2 inch SUs, twin cams, 4 speed gearbox, real leather and walnut interior and 100mph from the factory... in 1948.

Stygian wrote: Mick, my father has been into Rileys since the 60s.
But they were streets ahead of the Holdens in their day.

just about any car was, holden never really caught up till about the HQ, it's a good thing early holdens look good ohh and are aussie cars otherwise you wouldn't own one

RobinGi wrote:
Bugatti, they started this thing up and gave it a rev, sounded magnificent !

I'm guessing but this could be the on Gollings painted 15 odd years ago! Saw it in bits down there, even then it was impressive. The reason I think its the same Cameron's dad plays with those trains too...

They are making exact repo bugattis in brazil for two hundred thousand. They are so good that you can't pick them from the originals. A lot of the repo parts end up in original cars. I enquired about buying a straight eight engine from them for a boat project but at $75000 it was out of my league.
There are a couple of these cars here and the owners managed to fully register them even though they are brand new.

First got interested in Rileys in 1980. I was working for the Snowy Mts Authority in Talbingo (Maintenance Painter in Power Stations) and helped a guy restoring a Riley. I did sandblasting of some components and was lucky enough to see it go from rusty incomplete car to driving restored car, Dave is now retired and living in the ACT but I caught up with him not long ago when they had the opening of the second stage of the bridge at Gundagai.They filled the unopened part of the bridge with as many old cars in order of year as they could muster and yes he brought the Riley over still going strong

Mick

harry186 wrote:

Stygian wrote: Mick, my father has been into Rileys since the 60s.
But they were streets ahead of the Holdens in their day.

just about any car was, holden never really caught up till about the HQ, it's a good thing early holdens look good ohh and are aussie cars otherwise you wouldn't own one

Yeah Mick, you're right, the HQ was an important car. The FBs/EKs certainly look very cool, are still reasonably priced and parts are relatively easy to get.