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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:12 am 
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On my way back from Wagga got talking to a guy who had "a few Minis in his shed"

Drove over to his farm and his Father in Law showed me around, he was a real character and a nice bloke.

He was a self confessed horder and all the sheds were full, and I mean FULL of stuff.

Heaps of tractors (he collects them) Then down the back there were rows and rows of old cars and trucks.

There was this Mini Hi top Van, Fibreglass roof...

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Further down in a shed were 3 more Mini sedans, an orange 850 which you can just see to the right, (unfortunatly I missed getting a pic of that one, was having camera trouble).

The Burgundy one (same colour as my car) was a Deluxe and I couldnt get close enough to the White one but I think it was an another 850.

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He said they are being kept for his Grandkids so not for sale, at least they look to be dry and out of the weather.

I didn't ask but I got the feeling he wouldn't be selling anything, kept saying how people keep asking but he sounds like the kind of bloke that hangs on to everything (obviously!!)

In a back paddock more cars, there was another mini which again unfortunately the camera must have not worked.

But there were some really interesting cars, could have spent hours poking around.

Heres some of the pics I took....enjoy!

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Hudson Terraplane, one of the fastest cars of it's day.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:13 pm 
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I would be able to spend along time looking around there.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:51 pm 
What a fantastic place 8) Not many of those places left around any more that havnt been ratted


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It's sad to see things like the Hudson just rotting away like that.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:55 pm 
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It's sad to see things like the Hudson just rotting away like that.


if the grille is as good as it looks its worth a bomb :shock:

I think the Huddo would have been the founding member of the paddock club, looks like its been there for some time


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:07 pm 
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I know quiet a few places like this but as always, nothing is for sale as " Nothing is for sale, I'm gonna restore it one day"......... Right mate......
There is one about 4 minutes down the road, full of series 1, 2, 2a, and 3 landrovers, austin a40's, a few buick tourers around the 1928-1930 vintage complete and just sitting there! I havent sneaked a peak in the 3 big sheds yet......

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:59 pm 
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It was much like that here until reasonably recently. Farms with relic and ornaments rotting in paddocks. Then a local guy with a tilt tray truck, when the price of steel went up, went from farm to farm offering to buy the scrap metal and relics.

It was still in the drought and tough times so many did sell their scrap and so many treaures went to the scrap metal dealer and to the crusher. To them is was just scrap metal.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 4:00 pm 
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Wow. How the heart flutters.


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what a joke. people like that crap me.

his cars & his money so what ever though.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 4:34 pm 
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Also what happens is eventually the guy dies. Then the family wants to sell the farm and calls in the scrap metal guy to clear it.

The tricks is to get there before the scrap metal man.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 5:24 pm 
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Wow. :shock: I thought my shed was a mess.

Such a shame the stuff left in the weather, though.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 5:27 pm 
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I swear that is the high roof van that used to sit down a gravel road out the back of Yellingbo in Victoria, even has the identical mould on the roof and Faint sign - writing on the back...


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I cannot stand idiots like this who just hold onto stuff and let it rot so no one else can make use of it. It is not a clever collection, it is just a mental condition....what a waste! Even the white 850 has a compressed roof.

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owen1975richard wrote:
I cannot stand idiots like this who just hold onto stuff and let it rot so no one else can make use of it. It is not a clever collection, it is just a mental condition....what a waste! Even the white 850 has a compressed roof.

:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

You'd be amazed how that pops out, my `Matic was like that when bought for a bottle of Chivas Regal. :lol: :P

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:29 pm 
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does anyone know what the car is on the far right of this photo?

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