Les-the-Pres wrote:With regard to a museum, It's a couple of barns and some garages/ workshops, He had a lot of stuff and was talking about moving abroad.
Off the top of my head I'd say there were 30 or 40 vehicles including things like TWO Cobra Jet Mustangs, a number of GTO's a Jag XJ220 the wifes Convertible Bentley Continental, I recognised a few racecars but my memory has gone to pot as regards remembering names.
I will try and get hold of him and pop down with a camera if he's still there.
He does not like visitors, Nor do the dogs, I know him from doing a rebuild on the 428 in one of the Mustangs, He let me use it to go on holiday for a week to run it in. Isn't English eccentricity great!!
With that many vehicles in his collection he could well open a musuem, & by the sound of it it could be an impressive one too.
If you can get some pic's it would be interesting to see what the car looks like these days, but if it's his private collection I can understand if he'd rather keep it, well, private.
Les-the-Pres wrote:You also mention Hot Tomato II, Just to let you know that's in Cheltenham being readied for this season, it was at the Pod a week or so back, It's in yellow now.
That sounds like good news. I always thought it was an impressive car & as they mostly camped/pitted next to us at Long Marston I got to have a good look at it. They did quite a lot of experimental work with the rover motor, even making a lot of the bits for it themselves, such as adjustable rocker arms. I think they went as far as they could with the rover & the last I heard they were trying the small block chevy motor, but I stopped going at that point. Does anyone know how far they went with chevy motor?