Lost in the 50's Car Museum.

[Ausfree]

This is a must for me to visit. It is a privately owned museum of memorabilia from the 1950's with classic American cars as the stars of the show. Cost is $15 per person to visit by appointment only as the museum is only open to the public 10 times a year.:D

Car collection lost in the 50s: photos | Newcastle Herald (http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3359129/car-collection-lost-in-the-50s-photos/?cs=305)

This is their webpage if anybody is interested in visiting, I think it would be great to see, it's at Cameron Park which is a suburb of Lake Macquarie, NSW.

http://www.lostinthe50s.com.au/memorabilia.html

[BMKal]

Wow !!!!

Didn't even know that existed. There's some real classics in there. Would love to get the chance to see that sometime.

A couple of years ago, I was fortunate enough to spend a day at the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum in Germany. Auto & Technik MUSEUM SINSHEIM | Car & Technology Museum Sinsheim | South Germany (http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/)

Amongst other things, they also have a large collection of classic American and European cars.

Love spending time in places like this ....................... half your luck. :D

[V8Ian]

Looks very interesting Jim, but I don't recall too many flash cars like that when I was a keen, young car spotter in the sixties. I do recall a couple of derelict cars parked behind a servo, a Hudson and a Mercury, that a mate and I spent hours sitting in with our imaginations taking us to all sorts of places.
Most of the cars we saw back then were economy Pommie cars such as Morris Minor/Major/1100, Standard Vangard/8/10, Ford Prefect/Cortina/Consul/Zephyr and Hillmans various. Of course offerings from the "Big Three" were always about along with the occassional Chrysler Royal and Tank Fairlane.
Mr Walker was a regular in his ancient Chev 4 ute.
When I was in grade five, I was strongly attracted to a Vauxhall Wyvern, in a car yard close to my school. Its main draw being the cheapest car on the yard at the heady sum of ten quid ($20). I had all sorts of plans to raise such a vast amount. :D

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/09/378.jpg

Was it just my backwater upbringing that deprived me of all those flash cars?
Uncle Ho, do you remember Dirty Dianne and her flash red VW Beetle?

[Ausfree]

Ian, most of those cars are imported from USA. As I live not far from the museum I have seen some of these cars on the road and wondered where they come from. They are left hand drive.:D Yep, a visit is definitely on my bucket list, Mrs Aus has said she would love to visit also as there is a lot of memorabilia there by the looks of it!!:D

Like you, my only memory of cars of that era is similiar to what you have already mentioned!!:D

ps. I have also seen an impeccably restored black 1962 Dodge Phoenix running around here and I use to drool over these Dodges when I was a young bloke!!

[jerryd]

Vauxhall Wyverns weren't around in the 1930's Ian .....:wasntme:

[V8Ian]

Vauxhall Wyverns weren't around in the 1930's Ian .....:wasntme:
Nor were Hillman Vouges. :p

[jerryd]

Nor were Hillman Vouges. :p

Nor were English teachers :D

There might be some Hillman Vogues at the all british day, are you going ??

[p38arover]

Nor were Hillman Vouges. :p

Nor Humber Vogues! :wasntme:



There might be some Hillman Vogues at the all british day, are you going ??

Hillman Minxes, Humber and Singer Vogues. (My first personal email address was Hillman@bigpond.com when I used to host and run the Hillman Owners Club of Australia website - I was a Hillman owner.)

I think there was a Hillman Vogue in South Africa.

[jerryd]

We had Singer Vogues in the uk. The Vogue was also produced in Australia, by Rootes Australia, and was marketed as the "Humber Vogue". It was introduced in 1963 and was followed by the Vogue Sports which was fitted with a Sunbeam Rapier engine that provided a 35 percent increase in power to 85.5 hp (64 kW; 87 PS)


http://www.asco.org.uk/Vogue%20Story%20Web.pdf

[V8Ian]

What was the one we saw at Mt Coot-tha Jerry?

[p38arover]

I can see another road trip (without wife) coming up, this time to the Hunter region.

This museum, FighterWorld at Williamtown, the Catalina at Rathmines. I wonder what else I could spend a week looking at.

I did Fort Scratchley last weekend.

[mick88]

Was the "Rootes" group affiliated with Chrysler in any way?
That star like symbol is identical to the one!


Cheers, Mick.

[V8Ian]

On yer bike Ron, head north, we'll find somewhere to ride to.

[p38arover]

Was the "Rootes" group affiliated with Chrysler in any way?
That star like symbol is identical to the one!

Chrysler made the mistake of buying the Rootes Group in 1964. From about that time, the PentaStar started appearing on their cars. Lee Iacocca, when he took over Chrysler, was adamant that Chrysler should never have bought it.

Many years ago, my son, whilst driving my Hunter, was pulled over by the HWP. The cop knew my son was in a Hillman Hunter but the rego check had brought up that the number plates belonged to a Chrysler Unk(nown).

My son had to prove to the cop that it wasn't a Hillman but a Chrysler. There was no Hillman badging, the owner's handbook was labelled Chrysler, not Hillman, the PentaStar was on the front mudguard, the compliance plate had Chrysler, not Hillman.

[p38arover]

On yer bike Ron, head north, we'll find somewhere to ride to.

I was thinking about riding up to the Sunshine Coast to visit my sister.

[V8Ian]

I was thinking about riding up to the Sunshine Coast to visit my sister.
Do it, we must be due for another coffee or feed. :)