NOW HERES SOMETHING REALLY NICE!

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For those that fancy something sporty, take a peep
at this:

 

http://www.brightwells.com/vehicleauction/index.htm

 

At first glance it looks like one of the
Walton-bodied cars, but they were built in 1917-18 and this is a
'22.

 

Read the sales blurb carefully - it is afflicted
with a forked tongue, methinks.  At one point is was "commisioned for
export to New Zealand", but further down it is "believed to have arrived in New
Zealand following a period spent in Australia".  They also attribute this
type of body to Biddle and Smart - anyone ever heard that before?  The
famous aviator was Kingsford-Smith, not King-Smith.

 

Geoff, the car was apparently in NZ for quite a
while - did you ever come across it?

 

Regardless of the car's provenance, I like
it!  The lower price estimate of GBP42k (= US$74,000, NZ$107,000 or
AU$97,000) is just a shade romantic, I would have thought.  My guess is
that US$25k would be quite enough.  Being right hand drive means that it
won't appeal to the US market and the English will not spend that sort of money
on a mass-produced American, even if it does have a sporty body.  I feel
the vendor is going to be disappointed.

 

Cheers........... Peter R.