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Author Very old vauxhall history of car required 1921`ish
Graeme
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Right well this is a bit of an odd one for you all but basically this car owns to my family and my grandad has it in storage but i am looking at getting it down here.

All i know about it is that it is roughly a 1921 vauxhall and it is the only one in the world with this body on, also i believe that it is the only one in the world with the hand as the indicator on the second pic.

It was offered to my great grandad i think as we used to own a big vauxhall garage in Glasgow and he bought it and it was used as a family wedding car and kept in our showroom for many years untill it was sold around 10 years ago.

It has a wooden chassis and it was orginally Grenn but now its yellow but its showing its age and is which it needs to be in a sealed bag because of the wooden chasie.

I havent been to my grandad about the car yet as he is the one who knows most about it but i wana ask him about it and basically if anyone had any info or knows what it is then i would be very gratefull.










[Edited on 10-01-2007 by Graeme]
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quote:
Originally posted by Haimsey


nice response i think!

but not really any help!
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Fit a LET

[Edited on 10-01-2007 by Welsh Dan]
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was this queens garage on pollockshaws road now owned by arnold clark? i remember seeing something like that years ago in that gargage?
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What garage in Glasgow was it?
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark330d
was this queens garage on pollockshaws road now owned by arnold clark? i remember seeing something like that years ago in that gargage?


it was indeed, my grandad used to own it back in the gool old days and now my uncle in the manager of all of it but it has changed alot!
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Bought my Corsa from this garage and yeah same as mark, remember it sitting at the front pride of place, as the garage is on a corner at the traffic lights.
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yeah it then went into a corner where sadly it sat for a few years out of place, it was orginally green and then it got painted yellow for some unknown reason and that started to flake so it was hidden away.

The main worry we have is the wooden chassis which is holding up cosidering its age, its also very un reliable!
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I'll get my coat...
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Nice indicator
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were is the gsi kit.
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quote:
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were is the gsi kit.


i can't do photoshop, but i look forward to someone tricking it up some more
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hmm...
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Needs clear side repeaters imo.....
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thanx again for all the helpfull posts but if u arent gona help if you could kindly STFU then that would be most appreciated!
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quote:
Originally posted by Graeme
thanx again for all the helpfull posts but if u arent gona help if you could kindly STFU then that would be most appreciated!


LOL!

Why dont you just ask your grandad? Would be alot easier than making a post on here, obviously your going to get silly replys.
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various reasons, number 1 mainly being that he is on holdiay for 2 months!
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he does have a point, this is CS

seriou....what?

[Edited on 10-01-2007 by Haimsey]

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neat thread
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do this
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Have you thought about emailing vauxhall and sending them a picture to see if they can help you?
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That is a Vauxhall 20/60 R Type.

From 1928 to 1931 there was a one model policy imposed on Vauxhall by the new owners and this led to the &#65533;495, 2762cc seven main bearing six cylinder pushrod 4 speed R-Type 20/60 in 1927. The R-Type was still a Luton design but the Detroit influence was evident with cost effective Delco-Remy coil ignition, Borg and Beck clutch, Oakland-type rear axle, pressed steel instead of alloy castings, cast iron pistons and artillery wheels. The Luton influence was more typified by brakes with 132 components between the cable and the shoe, complicated internal oil pressure circulation and a complex king-pin design which required 14 lathe operations during manufacture. C E King was charged with the responsibility of the R-Type design and various external body makers augmented the factory body design.
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That picture looks different to the yellow one - headlingts in different position, slightly different grill

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