Eglinton Custom and Classics (Scotland)

flatduck · SUDBURY, ONT

Eglinton Custom and Classics (Scotland)

flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

Hey Pete not shure but I think the Ford you are talking about was a model Y.There was one around southern Ontario tha was really well built I think it won a Riddler award back then as well.Love the fact that there are some Scotish rodders cool enough to run with suade paint.Lots of interesting rods here ,just shows the fact that rodding is common everyware,find what is cool to you then chang a few things and make it yours.What was really fun about the picyures is the fact every car in them is new to me,its going to take a while to get thru them all .Thanks Dave these pics are great.Wonder if the Polish guy will post some from his area. Ed

-- Edited by flatblack55delivery on Sunday 25th of November 2012 11:21:36 AM

Dave Scott · ANCASTER, ONT

Hey folks.

Thought I'd dig out some pictures from my local show which we have every year in Ayrshire. These were taken a couple of years ago, but it's the usual suspects every year so the photo's would'nt be any different if it was THIS year, lol.

poncho62 · ADMINISTRATOR

Cool pics...Funny to see how some cars are right hand drive and some are left.....Would like to see the interiors of some, they used some odd dashes back in the 50s-60s, like a 59 dash in a 62 Pontiac.

Dave Scott · ANCASTER, ONT

I'm still uploading the pictures, so some of them are not visible.

Wasn't expecting any of you guys to be up yet, lol.

poncho62 · ADMINISTRATOR

My dog gets me up early...lol

Its almost 7am here

SKAR · PETERBOROUGH, ONT

7:12 now, cool pics. I see your car in there too. Interesting seeing some newer GM trucks there, are they not as common as other stuff?

dualquadpete · BLACKSTOCK, ONT

That was COOl I was looking in the backgrounds & saw a Vauxall Victor [59ish] also like the Grey Anglia [stock] as most of them get "rodded" along with the "Prefects" & Ford "Pop". ASJ 281 lic plate # Blue Ford??? Looks like a 37 or 38 but UK had one that was similar but smaller than over here, & i can't remember the model name??? Those pictures were great & could have been a show over here, nice variaty of vehicles. Thanks Dave. Pete

Dave Scott · ANCASTER, ONT

I should have guessed you guys would be more interested in the stuff you DON'T get over there, lol.

Ok, here's some more, plus other good stuff

dualquadpete · BLACKSTOCK, ONT

Thanks for those Dave, love the "MOGGIES" almost bought one for Janice a few yrs. ago, but she wasn't impressed with what it looked like when we saw it,think she thought it was "all restored' & it wasn't!!! Pete

427CARL · CLINTON, ONT

THANKS DAVE I love the Morris Minor I had a 1960 as a first car 2 door 4 speed bucket seats Had a lot of firsts in that car

1960 MORRIS MINOR @ SACKVILLE N.B. 1965.jpg

Dave Scott · ANCASTER, ONT

427CARL wrote:
is this a A40 Austin? my grandfather had a black 4 door and my Dad had a pea green 49 with sunroof and a red CONVERTIBLE

Yeah, you are correct:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MHV_Austin_A40_Devon_1952_01.jpg

flatblack55delivery · PORT HOPE, ONT

Hey Scotish Dave I was wondering is there much buying and selling of rods over there.What I mean is do the cars change owners much or do people hang on to what they have.The rodding comunity is not really very large around here so when cars change hands there tends to be that "wasn't that buddys car"thing for awhile.I don't like buying a custom car from home area for that reason.Are people still digging old iron out of barns over there or do they import.So many different makes from so many different countries must keep things fresh. Ed

427CARL · CLINTON, ONT

flatduck wrote:
would love to get couple of those big licence plate for my garage looks cool............would they be hard to get across

lots Here now lol look at E-bay and Kijiji

Dave Scott · ANCASTER, ONT

flatduck wrote:
would love to get couple of those big licence plate for my garage looks cool............would they be hard to get across

-- Edited by flatduck on Sunday 25th of November 2012 10:58:01 AM

Do you mean the metal black and silver plates?

Dave Scott · ANCASTER, ONT

flatblack55delivery wrote:
Hey Scotish Dave I was wondering is there much buying and selling of rods over there.What I mean is do the cars change owners much or do people hang on to what they have.The rodding comunity is not really very large around here so when cars change hands there tends to be that "wasn't that buddys car"thing for awhile.I don't like buying a custom car from home area for that reason.Are people still digging old iron out of barns over there or do they import.So many different makes from so many different countries must keep things fresh. Ed

There's a lot of neglected classics here. We generally have smaller houses with less garden and single garages. Most classics are sitting under tarps in the cold damp of Great Britain, rusting away

It seems that every time a car changes hands, the new owner needs to start a new resto.

But to answer your question, I would say the scene is pretty quiet here. It's cheap enough to buy a project, but the costs for getting things repaired or re-manufactured in the UK is just crazy, and for most it's not affordable in today's economic climate.

Out of 600 members of a car club I ran, only one of them was into classics/rods etc, and that's the owner of the Falcon and the black Ford Cobrajet in the pictures.

hemi43 · ONTARIO

Some of those old models remind me of the cars when I used to live in Europe. Too bad we don't see them here.

427CARL · CLINTON, ONT

is this a A40 Austin? my grandfather had a black 4 door and my Dad had a pea green 49 with sunroof and a red CONVERTIBLE

dualquadpete · BLACKSTOCK, ONT

flatblack55delivery wrote:
Hey Pete not shure but I think the Ford you are talking about was a model Y.There was one around southern Ontario tha was really well built I think it won a Riddler award back then as well.Love the fact that there are some Scotish rodders cool enough to run with suade paint.Lots of interesting rods here ,just shows the fact that rodding is common everyware,find what is cool to you then chang a few things and make it yours.What was really fun about the picyures is the fact every car in them is new to me,its going to take a while to get thru them all .Thanks Dave these pics are great.Wonder if the Polish guy will post some from his area. Ed

-- Edited by flatblack55delivery on Sunday 25th of November 2012 11:21:36 AM

Ed, think your right on the Y model. There was one up in Manilla, just north of Port Perry awhile ago, being rodded but it seems to have disappeared??? Looked like one of the North American full size untill you start to "really' take a close look!!!

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Really great bunch of pics Dave, thanks for posting this!!

Very interesting.