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Information released on the Early Ford V-8 Club of America’s 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Celebration June 11th -17th 2023.

Henry Ford’s Hometown, Dearborn Michigan, home of everything Ford will be the location for the 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Celebration Grand National Meet of the Early Ford V-8 Club of America, June 11th to 17th, 2023. The Meet starts with a motor coach bus tour to Auburn Indiana and tours of the Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum and the Auburn Cord & Duesenberg Museum. The headquarters hotel will be the DoubleTree by Hilton in Dearborn.

Activities at the hotel will include registration, Meet souvenir sales, ‘Your Choice Raffle’, Swap Meet, Operational Check and Car Clean up. Registrants will get information so that they can “Tour on Your Own” to interesting sites in the area. 

Special behind the scenes tours have been arranged for the Benson Ford Research Center, Henry and Clara Ford’s Fair Lane home and the Yankee Air Museum and their Ford Tri-Motor. A special Early Ford V-8 Day is planned for Greenfield Village. Concourse judging will take place on June 15th at the headquarters hotel. This will be the opportunity to view Club member’s registered Ford, Mercury, Lincoln and Ford commercial vehicles. 

The final day of the Grand National Meet starts with a motor coach bus Tour to the Gilmore Car Museum and will end back at the headquarters hotel with the Awards Banquet. For more information check out the Club’s web site www.earlyfordv8.org

Bruce Nelson
Grand National Chair
60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Celebration

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This black with burgundy interior ’67 Caprice must have been the cat’s PJs back in the day.

This old Caprice would have been a sharp car in its day! A factory black two-door hardtop with burgundy interior would have looked amazing on this old Caprice. The years in the Kansas pasture have taken its toll on the finish and the 327 disappeared years ago, but it’s still a pretty neat old car!

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This old Oldsmobile Delmont might still have some more to give.

This Olds Delmont was fresh out of a Kansas pasture!  The Delmont was only made for two years. The engine/trans are missing out of this 1968 version, but it still has a lot of good pieces on it!

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Chad Ehrlich is always dragging cool, old iron in his salvage yard, Nobody Else’s Auto. Be sure to subscribe to the “Nobody’s Show” Channel on YouTube to keep up with all of the new inventory that Chad is hauling in! You can also follow him on Facebook under “Nobody Else’s Auto.”

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The NCRS Gallery will once again be a featured showcase at the August 24-26 Carlisle Corvette Nationals.

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Carlisle, PA –  Corvettes at Carlisle is the biggest and best all-Corvette-themed car show in the world. Not only does it draw 5,000+ Corvettes to the Carlisle PA Fairgrounds, but it also hosts nearly 60,000 spectators. Cars, car owners, vendors, and spectators alike converge on central PA because they not only love the cars but the camaraderie too. There are many displays and guests each August, none showcase more Corvette excellence than the NCRS Gallery

This summer, August 24-26 to be exact, the NCRS Gallery returns for its 22nd iteration of top-notch Corvettes. The gallery’s purpose is to present an ever-changing gallery of Corvettes and one that is accessible to not just the NCRS members and car owners, but to non-NCRS members too. In fact, the collection historically contains select Corvettes that have won some of the most prestigious awards available. This includes Duntov Mark of Excellence Award® winners, McLellan Mark of Excellence Award® winners, NCRS-Chevrolet Bowtie Award® recipients for Preservation Excellence, American Heritage Award® recipients, and Sportsman Award® Corvettes.

It’s easy to find the display tent too, as it’s not far from the grandstand or Gate 3, the main entry gate.  In fact, adjacent to Building R on the east side of the grounds is where this exclusive gathering of Corvettes will be.  While the NCRS itself picks its cars, there is still time to become an NCRS member for future consideration.  Visit NCRS.org for details on how to become a member, review their annual events schedule, and more.

Gates open at 7 a.m. each day and kids 12 and under are admitted FREE.  Complete details about the 2023 Corvettes at Carlisle car show, including information on how to become a vendor within the automotive flea market, register for the Fun Field, apply for display consideration, or simply purchase discounted spectator admission tickets can be found at CarlisleEvents.com or by calling 717-243-7855.

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A wickedly fast re-worked 1949 Bentley MkVI up for sale in the UK.

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H&H Classics – If ever you have dreamed of owning a Bentley race car, this one featured in the Ray Roberts’ book ‘Bentley Specials and Special Bentleys’, would be well worth taking a close look at given a top speed in excess of 140mph. A life that includes Goodwood and hill-climbs with the sound of that magnificent engine in your ears, beckons.

The globe-trotting Bentley has lived in the UK, US, Canada and Spain. Starting life as a Standard Steel Saloon the car’s Initial conversion including chassis shortening / lowering and installation of Daimler Majestic Major 4.5 litre Hemi V8 was carried out by engineering firm proprietor John Edwin Thomas of Hartfield, Sussex in the late 1970s. The two-seater is far faster than most of its siblings thanks to the fitment of the V8 engine, close-ratio four-speed manual gearbox and Powr-Lok limited slip differential.

It was then sold as a running and driving but incomplete concern to Tim Trevithick who bodied it in light alloy and sorted the dynamics. Later it was owned by Russell Mishcon whose father co-founded the solicitors’ firm Mishcon de Reya which represented Princess Diana. It has been treated to some $54,465 worth of restoration by The Guild of Automotive Restorers Inc. of Bradford, Ontario.

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The Bentley’s initial transformation was undertaken by John Edwin Thomas of Hartfield, Sussex during the late 1970s. The proprietor of an engineering company who had previously fabricated two MkVI Specials (one of which was supercharged), he shortened the chassis by approximately fourteen inches, cut down the radiator, significantly lowered the suspension and installed the Daimler / Jaguar powertrain before suffering a heart attack that prompted him to sell the running and driving but incomplete ‘WFX 288’ to Tim Trevithick. An enthusiast of the ‘oversquare’ V8 engines that Edward Turner designed for Daimler in the late 1950s with their five-bearing crankshafts, cast iron blocks, alloy cylinder heads / sumps and hemispherical combustion chambers, Mr Trevithick has uprated more than one Daimler V8 250 Saloon with a Majestic Major unit.

Having bodied the Bentley in lightweight alloy panels (with the exception of its remodeled steel boot lid which formerly graced a Morris Minor), he set about sorting the Special to the point that it was ‘formidably fast and had very good balance’. Relocating to Southern Spain during the 1980s, Mr Trevithick sold the two-seater to the aforementioned Russell Mishcon whose father Victor co-founded Mishcon de Reya (the renowned solicitors which represented Princess Diana amongst others). Mr Mishcon entrusted ‘WFX 288’ to Rees Brothers of Aldershot for an engine overhaul and other works during 1987 – 1988 with the company apparently describing it as ‘a Lotus 7 on steroids’.

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The subject of a cosmetic restoration and rewiring in the early 1990s, the MkVI Special was bought by John McKewan some ten years later who exported it to Canada. It was at this point that it was treated to some $54,465 worth of fettling and improvement by The Guild of Automotive Restorations Inc of Bradford, Ontario during 2002 modifications, included a telescopic rear shock absorber conversion. Sold to Chris Moss by Auto Europe of Birmingham, Michigan in 2009 and repatriated thereafter, the two-seater entered the current ownership via our 5th December 2012 Newbury Racecourse auction.

Forming part of a notable private collection for the past eleven years, ‘WFX 288’ was dispatched to James Baxter of Tip Top Engineering for ‘a dose of looking at’. Benefiting from a thorough service, attention to the brakes and revision of the throttle mechanism (liberating almost forty percent more travel!), the Bentley was summed-up by Mr Baxter, a multiple hill-climb champion, thus:

“Blimey, car is staggeringly fast, and handles well too. Steering a little too low geared for me, but fantastic fun”.

Although, Daimler quoted outputs of 220bhp and 282lb.ft. of torque for the Majestic Major’s powerplant their antiquated dyno was only rated up to 220bhp. Indeed, a Jaguar Mk X saloon which had had a Daimler 4.5 litre V8 transplanted into it proved capable of lapping the MIRA test track at 135mph! Needless to say, the MkVI Special weighs considerably less than a MkX saloon which is one of the reasons that the vendor has found it to be so enjoyable for sprints and hill-climbs.

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Capable of invigorating road use, this unique Bentley is only being offered for sale to help rationalise the vendor’s collection. Pleased to have been able to acquaint John Thomas’s daughter with her father’s creation and to have had contact from Mr. Trevithick about its past, he feels the time is right to hand the baton over to a new custodian. A glorious sounding machine with a distinctive ‘Hemi’ V8 burble, ‘WFX 288’ is accompanied by a V5C Registration Document and history file.

The 1949 Bentley MkVI and many more impressive vehicles will be sold at the Imperial War Museum Sale 15 March, 2023 . Click on the link for more information – https://www.handh.co.uk/auction/search/?au=523

About H&H Classics – Simon Hope, Chairman of H&H Classics, has transferred his complete 100% shareholding in H&H to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) giving ownership in its entirety to the employees. This development means that H&H Classics, after 29 years, is now completely employee owned and on the next stage of its continued development as a business.

H&H was founded by Simon Hope in 1993 as a specialist auction house dedicated solely to the sale of collectors’ motorcars and motorcycles. Some 29 years later, the company can boast a continuous trading history. The company is run by hands-on enthusiasts with over 350 years of combined experience, and its specialist valuers are among the most knowledgeable in the industry. 

H&H has had the pleasure of handling everything from 1890s London to Brighton runners through to 1990s Formula 1 cars and more modern collectibles. They also hold some of the most vibrant Motorcycle auctions selling a variety of iconic motorcycles and scooters. Both departments regularly achieve World Record auction prices.

With the head office near Warrington, Cheshire and its Private Sales Garage near Hindhead in Surrey and specialists based throughout Europe, H&H holds regular physical sales at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in Cambridgeshire, the National Motorcycle Museum and at The Pavilion Gardens, Buxton Derbyshire and online timed auctions, which are live 24/7. https://www.handh.co.uk/

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