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    Quote Originally Posted by mango View Post
    i think its a 1934 chev, cant see if its a roadster or a coupe
    Its a 32 at the latest, flat radiators stopped about 1932 and started sloping, looks like a Chrysler product - Dodge/ Desoto/Plymouth/Chrysler.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mango View Post
    picture 1 is a ford
    '""""""" 2 is a ford blitz
    .......... 3 with the 12 spoke wheels possibly a dodge but there is not much to see and no grill
    ........... 4 a ford
    ........... 5 possibly a thorneycroft or AEC by the radiator
    I agree on number 5, i would bet its an AEC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by toyboy11 View Post
    Looks like a 1935-36 ford coupe to me.
    I was going to say 35 ford and it could be one of the pommy Fords because it looks a bit smaller than the US versions.

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    Thought I might revive this thread as I came across a few more. Would be interested to know what this one is, that's my grandfather in 1938


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    I posted this elsewhere recently but here it is again.

    My great grandfather in 1921 on his BSA side car cycle. He was a watchmaker/jeweller/optician from Warracknabeal, Victoria.
    Its an interesting mode of transport, that's my great grandmother in the side car and the kid with her with the hat on is my grandfather.

    The advert notes the "3 speed gear box model" and it appears to have a gear stick visible near the fuel tank?

    I was lucky enought to find the for sale ad recently when trawling news paper archives and have tacked it on to the photo.


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    I have blown it up a bit to see more of the bike itself. And it does look like a gear stick ? Anyone know it is definately is ? Imagine trying to drive that thing with the missus and kid in the side car while handing on trying to steer and change gear.


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    Yes it's a gear stick, pretty standard back then.
    Combined with a crash box , you need 3 hands to ride them....


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    I always wanted an old stick shift Harley, come to think of it, I'd even settle for a "normal" Harley.
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    Bumping an old thread.......

    I was wondering if anyone might know what type of car this is ?



    My grandfather is the kid in the back, his father (my great grandfather) is standing at the front of the car. The year is 1922 and they are at Leongatha South.
    Although all the old pictures in this thread are gone, my great grandfather also had a BSA motorbike with sidecar around this time. The car looks a bit light weight......perhaps the motorbike and sidecar were the main transport ?

    Thanks to anyone that knows what it is.

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    Photo of motorbike and side car he owned around the same time (previously posted but has disappeared like all others)



    I was lucky enough to find a for sale ad in the newspaper archives when he was selling it. It's a BSA 3 speed model (see the gearstick) and the sidecar setup was custom. You can see my grandfather and his mum in the sidecar.
    Given they lived in Warracknabeal, perhaps he borrowed the car for the trip to Leongatha ? It would have been an interesting trip had they taken the the bike My great grandfather appears to have been an interesting bloke with travelling. In 1932, they hit the "Australian Alps" ( Mount Kosciusko ) and drove a 1929 Fiat in some places that people now take 4WD's.

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    looks like an early dodge 3035, but the wire wheels are very unusual for the time.....

    maybe an aussie body on an imported chassis ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hoe View Post
    looks like an early dodge 3035, but the wire wheels are very unusual for the time.....

    maybe an aussie body on an imported chassis ?
    Very likely -- body may well have been made by Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd (HMBB), and back in those days they were building bodies on imported chassis from Austin, Buick, Chevrolet, Cleveland, Dodge, Essex, Fiat, Hudson, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Overland, Reo, Studebaker, and Willys-Knight.

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    I would guess at a Graham Page 1919 model

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    I'm guessing its an Austin 7 , by the skinny tyres and non removable hand crank

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    not a austin

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    Anyone got example photos for their answers ? Some similarities from what I have found in Google, but I may not be looking at the same photos of course.

    My great grandfather had held a motor car drivers licence for 15 years at this stage, here is his original issued in Cornwall, England. He migrated to Australia a few months after getting this particular licence, and likely drove over here on it.


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    Austin 7 , a slightly later model.
    back then the same car was not the same in every market - kits were sent out to various countries by ship and then had local bodies with local components thrown on to save money. Even at the time any way of saving money on sea frieght was taken into account


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    Its Not A austin 7 They didnt exist in 1921 the body is longer in the photo and headlights are american style not poms !closest i can find is a "OM" which is a italian 1918 model but not the exact same .
    reference : motors of today by H.Thornton Rutter volume V a book published by Virtue& Co page 1575 described as a four cylinder 10 -30 hp with a bore 0f 69 and a stroke of 100mm and a six cylinder model 15-60hp having a bore 0f 65mm and stroke of 100 mm

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    I would have to agree with hinekadon as according to the wikipedia link they didn't exist at the time. That's not to say it isn't an Austin, some of them have a very similar shape. Here's another pic, I have zoomed in to try and find anything that might give it away.


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