Re: Into the Sun

Posted by Robin Adair On 2015/4/9 7:36:50

Yes my dad had/has quite an affinity for collecting cars. I recently printed some enlargements of dad and I hunting Packards and hung them in the garage. They are interesting to look at


Here's one from the mid ninety nine's, We were at the Roaring Twenties museum and they had a handful of cars for sale. One was the 49 Golden Anniversary Club Sedan if I remember correctly. The interior, while rather worn was that beautiful gold colored pin stripe. Looking back i wish i would have purchased this car for the asking price of $500. Here's dad, head shoved in as usual

The Alvis was an Offord body. I believe it's the only one, at least in a 2 door drop head coupe.

I scanned in some copies of the correspondence between dad and Vintage Racing Cars of North Hampton. It's an interesting read. You can see dad picking out the colors and them sketching out the different positions of the top. If you flip that letter over you can see the race results for Silverstone Saturday May 17th 1969

Alvis letters

I also included some ads for Auburns dad was looking at, kind of fun to read