Mustangs Minutes

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New to this forum will be for your interest a segment called "Mustangs Minutes", nothing official, the post will only take you a minute to read. Extracts from a new book "Recreational Vehicles" will be featured also other interesting articles that I think members will enjoy.

Shannons Latest Auction

Some slowing of prices, but rarity will always sell.

#28 NSW plate $2,000,500.00  Several plates sold up to $300K

E type jag          $110K
A nice 56 Caddy $36K
Californian Moke $48K
Mint FC Holden   $65K
74 XB Fairmont  $72K
SS Commodore  $150K
67 Merc 2 door   $83K
77 LX hatch        $88K
71 GT Falcon      $295

Mint GT-HO Phase 3   $488K. (I'm adding to my money box but can't keep up !!!!!)

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Recreational Vehicles

Reproduced with permission from the publishers of Recreational Vehicles.

An Introduction:

“Has there ever been a stranger idea than putting a house on wheels & taking it on a holiday? however odd it may be its an idea that has caught on.

Today in Europe, USA, France, Germany, Australia & NZ there are an estimated 15 million RVs on the roads 10 million of those in the USA.

The RV is an enigma. In some countries it is unheard of but in others it is highly popular.

They come in all shapes & sizes are used by families, couples, singles, millionaires, workers, grey nomads, & members of the van movement & tiny house movements.

Those that feel today that an RV holiday is good for the body & soul, for example, might be interested to know that that some of the earliest RV users were American ‘health seekers’ escaping the east coast tuberculosis epidemics of the 19th century.

Those wishing to escape the daily grind of modern life by returning to nomadic ways might find equivalent sentiments among the ‘gentleman gypsies of late 19th century Britain.

And those who yearn for an outdoor holiday in greater luxury than offered by a tent may find vindication of their wishes in the large number of manufacturers who started business with exactly that motivation.” (end quote)

Advertising for Eccles caravans (UK, c1926)

Check out the caravan wheels, lantern roof for increased centre height, ventilation & light, curved roof, no leaks? (1926)

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Here is a juicy find

McQueens Mustang,

A dull green 1968 Ford Mustang GT driven by Steve McQueen in the movie "Bullitt" just became the most valuable Ford Mustang ever sold at auction. It went for $3.7 million, including auction fees, at the annual Mecum collector car auction in Kissimmee, Florida.

"This didn't have anything to do with money," said Sean Kiernan, whose late father Robert Kiernan purchased the car for $3,500.00 in 1974. "It had to do with breaking records and we did that."


Generally speaking, a 1968 Ford Mustang GT with a 390 cubic-inch V8 engine would be worth about $70,000 in good condition, according to the Hagerty Price Guide for collectible cars.


But "Bullitt," with its iconic chase scene, isn't just any movie and McQueen isn't just any famous actor. Because of his well-known love of cars and racing he holds a special place in the hearts of modern collectors. Asked to sign an insurance form stating he would refrain from off-screen racing during "Bullitt's" production, McQueen refused, saying "There are some things that aren't for sale -- and one of 'em is my soul," according a 1968 Daily Variety article quoted in the American Film Institute catalog.


He remains one of the very few celebrities whose past ownership can greatly increase the value of a vehicle often by three or four times or more. In 2014, a Ferrari previously owned and customized by McQueen sold for triple its ordinary value. In 2015, a vintage motorcycle he had owned became one of the most valuable motorcycles ever auctioned, going for $775,000. Other cars McQueen once owned have sold for five times their ordinary value.


Adding to the car's mystique was the fact that it had largely disappeared for decades.

Just after the movie debuted the famous Mustang was sold to a Warner Bros. employee. (Warner Bros., which is now part of Warner Media, as is CNN, was the distributor for the film.) The Warner Bros. parking permit remains affixed to the windshield to this day. It had one subsequent owner before Robert Kiernan, responding to an ad in Road & Track, bought it for $3,500 in 1974, according to his son.


It became the Kiernan family's regular car, going on shopping trips and taking kids to school for years. McQueen managed to track the car down and reached out to the family, offering several times to buy it from them. He even offered to buy the family another car to replace it. Robert Kiernan refused, his son Sean said.


In 2016, Sean said, he reached out to Ford and had the car authenticated by an independent Mustang expert. Documentation, including the letters from McQueen begging to purchase it, along with alterations made to the car for filming -- such as holes cut into the trunk for power cables -- backed up the car's authenticity.

While Ford (F) and Kiernan were preparing to unveil the car, another Mustang used in the movie, a stunt car that had been sent for scrapping after production, was uncovered in a Mexico scrapyard. It was found in far worse condition than Kiernan's car, though.


Finally, in January 2018, at the introduction of a new Bullitt Edition Mustang at the Detroit Auto Show, Kiernan's car re-emerged into public view.

If you view this on utube you will see how rough a condition the car is in, needing a full resto, "only original once".


ALSO AT MERCUMS AUCTION

They recently sold a 1974 Trans Am Firebird Pontiac with 14 miles on the clock (yes 14 miles), it looked mint,  it sold for $400K
USD ($572 aud) I know which one I would have chosen, to boot with a few bucks in your pocket.
Cheers
Mustang

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More from Recreational Vehicles

The birth of recreational travel had one problem that prevented working 
people from becoming tourists- a lack of free time. A six-or seven day
working week was common for workers during



industrialisation of England. The first leisure caravan owners believed that
a return  a heathier lifestyle could be achieved by escaping from
polluted, noisy cities into the country side. Not only that, but 
following the principals of the Arts & Crafts movement, they would travel 
in caravans built by craftsman.


Visitors going to the Great Exhibition on "Shilling Day" in Hyde Park, London 1851

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Airstream Clipper USA 1936.
Imagine turning up to the campground in this today, instant crowd.

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More from Recreational Vehicles.

Caravaners H. Owen Scott & his wife pictured with their pets at a pebble bordered site at Lepe Shore in the UK. The caravan is from  HIRE fleet of Bertram Hutchins (UK 1913)
The site is complete with a "safety cycle". Check out the detail in the hire caravan.

I wonder if you had to have your own "Trigger" or did the hire van come with one?
Cheers

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9.5 cwt, you wonder, well that is 475kg, the van featured is 14'6", 4 berth.
No axle, independent suspension, quick release jacks, also the jacks enabled wheel changing,
goodness knows how you would get the wheel out from under that frame??

All for 85 Gns (AUD about $170 at the time?)
Telephone 3654 if you are interested, hold if there is no answer.
Cheers

 

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Extracts from Recreational Vehicles.
There has'nt been any comment on the first part of this book, so I have advanced to Australia.


The campsite of artist Bill Pidgeon with his Jennison Cruiser caravan at Bylong Valley Way, NSW
1937


How peaceful, campfire an all.

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Extracts from Recreational Vehicles





A Rugby 6 Car & DON 10 foot caravan 1938

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Talk about borrowing the trends from each other !!!!
I wonder if that's why all new caravans are square boxes?

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Any member that has an interesting article, please feel free to post it here.
If you have trouble with images, send them to me with your copy, [e-mail]
Cheers

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Caravan Park manufacturers, later to be Carapark.

These guys could turn their hand to any sort of motor trimming, Propert folding campers have a steady following today.
The interior of the 1939 motor home would have been ultra classy in its day, looks ok now.

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How to make public transport more popular:

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Shannons rare number plate auction has started, already on day two the money bags are out:



Closed at $662K & $605K,why wouldn't you buy a beautiful car for that price? it might even come with a number plate.

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1958 OLDSMOBILE  As previous similar styling above.



1958 Chevy Impala


Either one thanks Santa.

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Old Cars in new Red Colour;

1953 Ford 
Possibly not as popular as future Customlines, but a beautiful car.


I would think this is a 40s model, it ticks all my boxes, Chrome, Red, Whitewalls.



1933 Duesenberg, what styling for a vehicle designed between two world wars.

Another red car, Mercury?



Red Cadillac & Trailer, I bet the the trailer upset some purists ?

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1940 Woody, the image may be recent, sure hope so.
The van appears to be fiberglass, I guess it came later? 

[hughdeany]

Hi Mustang,
Pretty sure the van was metal,made like a car.🥰
Cheers
hughdeany

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Early days of Cadillac Ranch:


2021:


This offbeat roadside attraction features 10 graffiti-covered Cadillacs standing upright in a row, buried nose-first in the ground. The sculpture is the brainchild of Amarillo millionaire Stanley Marsh III, who chose classics dating from 1948 to 1963, the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

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1947 Tahoe ......no indicators, unless they are part of the taillight?

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Heavy on the ball ?



Another larger single axel.


Not sure about this one in Queensland on a sunny day !!!!

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This scene is a PAINTING !!!


Artist Alain Bertrand, his detail is extraordinary, google his works amazing,



WOW

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Abandoned America



Abandoned America
The abandoned ocean liner the SS United States, moored in the docks of the Philadelphia Port Authority. Roughly 100 feet larger than the Titanic, the SS United States was both the largest liner built in the US and the fastest crossing the Atlantic.

Worth a look at the website
Gallery/info: www.abandonedamerica.us/ss-united-states

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Vermont USA