Classic Car Tales

“I’ve had it for 30 years, that’s when I met this old fella (referring to Daryl Withers, Shane’s Dad).  I got it for $200.00 in Lara, “Found it in a paddock, chickens were living in it.”

I always thought there was a funny smell in the car, when my brother and I pulled the front seat out there was a dead rat weaved into the springs under the seat, “every time we sat down it would release a little bit of smell”.

“It arrived just before Christmas and I registered it Christmas Eve.”  About 5 years ago this woman’s husband died and the family finished restoring it to sell.  They couldn’t sell it so the wife decided this was the one of her husbands cars that she was going to keep.  I kept thinking about this truck and kept in contact with her, about four years later she decided that it was a waste to have it just sitting in the garage and agreed to sell it to me.

All of the trims were hand made by the original owner. 

“I remember seeing it when I was a kid driving through Springvale.  I was about 10 years old at the time.”  

When the owner died it got passed in at auction, I didn’t have the money at the time and it ended up going to Canada.  Later on I ended up buying it and bringing it back here.

“Me Dad had one when I was growing up”  He used to put the kids in the front “there was five of us” and we would go and get a load of wood. 

This one was imported by the Major of Young and can still get me to Korrumburra and back on a tank of fuel.

I found it sitting in a shed “couldn’t just leave it sitting there”

The MG had a rollcage, dash and no motor when I got it, I had an old Toyota lying around so I put that in there to keep it in period.

The car is “Just randomness, bits of me in it everywhere.”