The Mellotron Group

It's a Gordon-Keeble:

http://www.britishcarlinks.com/Gordon%20Keeble%201.jpg
http://www.gordonkeeble.org.uk/

One of a whole crop of American V8-engined bespoke motors from the
late '60's/early '70's.  One of the nicest ones, probably second only
to the Bristol 411.  They're very rare.

Yes!  I am a total saddo.

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:51 AM, jonesalley <jonesalley@cox.net> wrote:
> Any of you guys in the UK able to tell me what this car is?  Double
> headlights with somewhat of the old Anglia look, and vertical taillights.
> Profile looks kind of Alpha, but nothing else does, and besides, the grill
> was entirely wrong for an Alpha.
>
>
>
>
>

Anglias look nothing like this.They were 1200cc engined pootle-abouts 
with bizarre fins on the back wings and looked like they were built for 
the senses-numbed-over-60s rather than speed.

I should know. When I was about six I drove my bike into a parked Anglia 
and managed to dent the front offside wing. Quite a feat on a Raleigh 
Convertible. The owner - a complete twat, incidentally - told me that it 
would cost me five shillings from my pocket money to get that problem 
sorted. I genuinely thought that this was the price of a new Ford Anglia.

Mike

jonesalley wrote:

>
> Any of you guys in the UK able to tell me what this car is?  Double 
> headlights with somewhat of the old Anglia look, and vertical 
> taillights.  Profile looks kind of Alpha, but nothing else does, and 
> besides, the grill was entirely wrong for an Alpha.
>
>
>
>
>

When I were but a lad, a friend of mine had an Anglia that had had the
engine from a larger Ford car, IIRC a 1600E Cortina transplanted into
it.  My memory is that this was a common mod, as it involved no
hacking out of crossmembers or welding, though I may be mixing it up
with the popular Fiat 2litre twin cam into a Morris Minor mod (I am
not making this up).  It would do the ton.  I can verify this because
I was in the passenger seat once when it did the ton.  I have never
been so frightened in a car in my life before or since.

OK I'll stop now.

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anglias look nothing like this.They were 1200cc engined pootle-abouts
> with bizarre fins on the back wings and looked like they were built for
> the senses-numbed-over-60s rather than speed.
>
> I should know. When I was about six I drove my bike into a parked Anglia
> and managed to dent the front offside wing. Quite a feat on a Raleigh
> Convertible. The owner - a complete twat, incidentally - told me that it
> would cost me five shillings from my pocket money to get that problem
> sorted. I genuinely thought that this was the price of a new Ford Anglia.
>
> Mike
>

Eh, Amercian V8 engined bespoke British motors, that should read.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Norman Fay <vietgrove@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] at least it's British (I think)
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com


It's a Gordon-Keeble:

http://www.britishcarlinks.com/Gordon%20Keeble%201.jpg
http://www.gordonkeeble.org.uk/

One of a whole crop of American V8-engined bespoke motors from the
late '60's/early '70's.  One of the nicest ones, probably second only
to the Bristol 411.  They're very rare.

Yes!  I am a total saddo.

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:51 AM, jonesalley <jonesalley@cox.net> wrote:
> Any of you guys in the UK able to tell me what this car is?  Double
> headlights with somewhat of the old Anglia look, and vertical taillights.
> Profile looks kind of Alpha, but nothing else does, and besides, the grill
> was entirely wrong for an Alpha.
>
>
>
>
>

In a message dated 5/10/2008 7:51:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mike.dickson@gmail.com writes:

I  should know. When I was about six I drove my bike into a parked Anglia 
and  managed to dent the front offside wing. 
 
 
Obviously back then they weren't building them, "Ford  tough."



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Blimey, no!  I'm a saddo, but not THAT much of a saddo!

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 5:03 PM,  <doctorwho8@aol.com> wrote:
> Are you affiliated with Top Gear, by chance?
> Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff
>
> In a message dated 5/10/08 4:55:53 AM, vietgrove@gmail.com writes:
>
>
>
> It's a Gordon-Keeble:
>
> http://www.britishchttp://www.bhttp://www.britihttp://
> http://www.gordonkehttp://wwhtt
>
> One of a whole crop of American V8-engined bespoke motors from the
> late '60's/early '70's. One of the nicest ones, probably second only
> to the Bristol 411. They're very rare.
>
> Yes! I am a total saddo.
>
>
> **************
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> AOL Food.
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Norman Fay wrote:
> 
> 
> Eh, Amercian V8 engined bespoke British motors, that should read.

There might be a song/album title in there. The kind that makes people 
go "WTF???"
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THAT'S IT!  Thanks a million Norman, it's really unusual for me to not be 
able to ID an automobile.  This was in an early 60's fictional film about 
racing in Great Britain, and it clearly looked like a high-end vehicle, 
which would have fit in with the character's wealth, but the best guess I 
could come up with was a Jensen of some sort that I had never seen.  And, I 
only meant that the angle and setting of the headlights themselves reminded 
me of an Anglia, nothing else even hints at it.

> It's a Gordon-Keeble:
>
> http://www.britishcarlinks.com/Gordon%20Keeble%201.jpg
> http://www.gordonkeeble.org.uk/
>
> One of a whole crop of American V8-engined bespoke motors from the
> late '60's/early '70's.  One of the nicest ones, probably second only
> to the Bristol 411.  They're very rare.
>

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "Norman Fay" <vietgrove@...>
wrote:
>
> It's a Gordon-Keeble:
> 
> http://www.britishcarlinks.com/Gordon%20Keeble%201.jpg

Anybody else spot the subtle King Crimson reference in this pic, hence
keeping things on topic?

Jim Bailey

Jim:

Lest you feel ignored...

'Red'

Cheers, 
Dan


--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "James Bailey" <jimab@...> 
wrote:

>
> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "Norman Fay" <vietgrove@>
> wrote:
> >
> > It's a Gordon-Keeble:
> > 
> > http://www.britishcarlinks.com/Gordon%20Keeble%201.jpg
> 
> Anybody else spot the subtle King Crimson reference in this pic, hence
> keeping things on topic?
> 
> Jim Bailey
>