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Kop Hill is only about 9 miles from my hometown, and to save me getting the microbus out and end up parking it up in some muddy public parking field, I decided to nip over to the event in my trusty T4 Transporter.
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| To start this weeks blog review we start with a car that I spotted as soon as I walked in the show. It's a gorgeous 1932 Ford Model B roadster with a real 1950's hot rod look. The '32 roadster has to be in my top 5 cars to one day own. |
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| The baby blue paint with the red painted steel wheels with chrome beauty rings and hubcaps and wrapped in white wall tyres are pure nostalgia. This lovely hot rod had a 4500CC engine, which in a roadster means it should be able to light up the tyres in almost any gear. |
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| The interior was trimmed to the same high quality as the exterior. The white tuck and roll door cards are also another hot rod period must have. I'm not sure if this is a steel bodied roadster or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was. |
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| The custom alloy seats obviously save weight but I'm not sure on how comfortable they would be on a cruise or long run somewhere. |
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| The classic and beautiful front end of a 1932 roadster. This one had a drilled front bean axle that had been painted red to match the wheels. |
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| American and British classic cars parked up next to each other. Here a 1965 Ford Mustang and a 1962 Triumph TR4 share the same area at the Kop Hill show. The sheer diversity of vehicles that were on show was huge. |
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| This gorgeous light green 2 door hardtop Mustang had the 289 cubic inch, 4.7 litre V8 motor with a manual gearbox. |
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| I did like the contrasting blue stripes over the body on this Mustang. I don't think this is a Shelby or GT model, but I do know that those reversing lights were an optional extra. |
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| This lovely British classic 1962 TR4, looked amazing it in it's race guise. I did like those banded steel wheels and the lack of front and rear bumpers. The huge race number on the door indicated this cars purpose. This TR4 had a 2238cc engine with a 4 speed manual gearbox. |
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| This really is a nice looking car that in it's day was quite nippy. With a 0-60 time of just over 10 seconds and a top speed of 110 MPH. |
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| Chevrolet Corvette C1 circa mid - late '50's. This car was stunning.The traditional red and white paint scheme is probably the most common colour combination, but Chevrolet also produced the C1 in turquoise and black with white amongst other colour combinations. The early C1's had the single headlight, which I prefer to the quad headlights the later models had. |
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| Both my passions in one photo, an American classic and a Volkswagen camper van. |
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| The C1 really is a beautiful car, the flowing lines are almost a work of art. I love how the rear lights are recessed into the rear fender and how the exhaust exits from under the car through the lovely chrome bumper corners. |
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| This really is a beautiful place to sit. The styling of the dashboard is almost perfect. You can almost imagine driving down the freeway with your favourite tunes on the AM radio and the wind in your hair. |
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| This lovely old 1969 early bay was parked up just behind the C1 and looked great. This bus was riding at what looked like standard height and looked so good. The chrome head light peaks were a nice addition that suited this bus. |
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| This old bay was very straight and looked solid. I think this bus may have originally been a panel van as those rear side windows look non standard. |
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| A close up of the rear side windows, I don't recognise them which makes me think they were fitted at a later date, they did however look cool. |
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| This stunning lowered 1964 Porsche 356C was immaculate. You can just make out how straight the old Porsche is from the reflection in that lovely blue paint down the side of the body. |
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| The 356C had disc brakes all round and the original 1600cc engine has been replaced with a more powerful 1720cc motor. |
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| This 1914 Fafnir Hall-Scott special was amazing. Fafnir was a car manufacturer based in Germany between 1908 - 1926. Hall-Scott was an engine manufacturer based in Berkeley in California between 1910 - 1960. |
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| This car has the Hall-Scott 10 litre aero engine originally built of a WW1 bi-plane. It is a four cylinder, water cooled, single overhead cam engine that makes this huge motor 10,000 cc. |
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| This car could reach speeds in excess of 100 MPH, and the only brakes this beast had were rear brakes, there were no front brakes what so ever. ! |
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| The interior doesn't look that comfortable but then I guess if your doing over 100 MPH in this old bone shaker car and you only have brakes on the rear, comfort is probably the last thing on your mind!. |
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| This bright yellow 1930 Austin 12/4 Open road tourer (I think) caught my eye. To be honest I don't know a lot about the Austin 12/4 but it did look cool. |
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| I spotted this in front of the radiator and in between the chassis horns, I'm assuming it is some sort of supercharger? |
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| This is a Humpmobile circa 1910. This car had skinny wooden wheels look somewhat fragile with even skinnier tyres. I think the engine would have been a 4 cylinder, 112 cubic inch engine with 2 speed transmission. |
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| The oval windscreen wouldn't have done much to protect the driver from the elements or from stopping the bug's getting into the drivers teeth. |
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| This beautifully restored car looked stunning in it's fresh cream coloured paint. I'm not sure how fast this car would have gone, but I'm guessing there wouldn't be too much traction from those skinny tyres. |
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| I loved the Kerosene tail lamps and the picnic basket. You can see just how skinny those tyres really are in this photo. |
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| This lovely pro street Ford Popular was on a trade stand promoting welding or fabrication or something like that, and it was a customers car that they had been working on. The big block Chevrolet engine completely filled the tiny engine bay of the 'Pop'. |
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| The super narrow rear axle and those huge 15" x 15" wheel and tyre combination look tough. The body was perfectly straight and although this car has some way to go until it's finished it does look very promising. |
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| The interior is coming together but it still some way to go, but it's looking really good so far. That huge transmission tunnel is to cover the unusual (in a hot rod) manual gearbox. |
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| This lovely 1974 Australian Ford Falcon caught my eye as they are quite rare over here in the U.K. This one is the XB GT Coupe model in mushroom beige. |
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| This lovely old Falcon had the 351 cubic inch motor with the auto gearbox. This is a real tough looking muscle car and those chrome 12 slot wheels and boot spoiler suit the car perfectly. |
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| This Lamborghini Espada was gorgeous and again quite rare. The Espada is a 4 seater grad tourer which was produced from 1968 - 1978 and had a 3.9 litre V12 engine. |
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| Judging by the shape of the tail lights and the twin exhaust on this one I think this is an early model as it did have some body changes during it's production. Just over 1200 of these lovely understated (for Lamborghini) cars were ever made which makes them very exclusive. |
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| Talking of rare cars this Ford Galaxie 500 is even rarer than the Lamborghini. This 1964 Galaxie '54A' 4 door sedan, in raven black with black interior is believed to be one of only 295 cars ever made in this trim and body style, and records show that there are only 16 left with this one being the only one in the U.K.! |
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| This stunning car had the 390 cubic inch, 6.4 litre V8 engine, 4 barrel carbs and a 3 speed manual gearbox. You can see just how straight that body is from the perfect reflection in that mile deep black paint. |
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| This immaculate car is the easily recognisable 1957 Chevrolet. I think this one was the Bel Air 2 door sedan finished in a perfect coat of black paint. The bright chrome body trim and those lovely chrome American racing 5 spoke wheels looked awesome against the body colour. |
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| All '57 Chevy's had a V8 motor of varying sizes and I'm not sure what one this had. The body on this '57 was just like new, it really was super straight, check out that reflection on the trunk. |
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| The interior of this car was just as nice as the exterior. I did like the Chevy floor mats and door cards. Optional extras available on the '57 included air conditioning, power steering and power brakes and even a signal seeking AM radio. I did like that full width bench seat that looked so comfortable. |
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| This lovely lowered 1967 rag top beetle looked stunning in that gorgeous green colour. This bug really was so straight and solid looking. Those Fuchs style wheels suited the low look of this |
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| The '67 had some changes from the '68 including the larger 1500cc engine with 2 speed wipers, 12 volt electrical system and door locking buttons on each door amongst other things. I did like the all red rear light lenses on the lovely bug. So that was part 1 of my blog review about Kop Hill. Next Saturday you can read more about this great event where there will be plenty more air cooled vehicles, as well as American classics, and plenty of unusual British and European classic vehicles. There are also some photos of the 'Wall of Death' which have to been seen to be believed! So don't forget to come back next Saturday. |
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