RachelDavis Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Can anyone help me?!I've posted a message before asking if anyone had any ideas where I could hire an old car (not a model T please) ideally a Cadillac 60s 70s ish for a competition we're running in England. I thought any newcomers to the site might be able to help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Our guys are very gallant here Rachel and especially for "desperate English Blondes"! Your request is unusual and that poses a problem for us. There are companies that rent older model cars but not many. One of our members will come to the rescue I am sure.Sir Steve to the rescue: www.dreamcarrentals.com they have a 59 Cadillac among other cars but you had better be prepared for a very hefty bill! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelDavis Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 You're a bless Steve thankyou!I had to try something, my bosses aren't convinced that it's such a hard thing to find. But it damned well is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 also www.carsinaamerica.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Steve ~ I know why you are being so gallant, her name is Rachel. Were it Maude, would you be as charming? You are progarmmed for a Rachel. Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snappydwp1 Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Contact these folks. I'm a regular on their forum. Real nice people.http://www.aacint.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelDavis Posted February 28, 2005 Author Share Posted February 28, 2005 Ta very much I will.You're all being so helpful! American petrol heads are a damned sight nicer than English ones! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronbarn Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Rachel, Thanks for petrol head comment, but I must say that when I went to your country to observe the Veteran Car Run last November, I had a marvelous time meeting the participants and looking at their cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_DaveZZZ Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 So you folks call us "Petrol Heads" huh? Here, I would say "Gear Head" is more common.I had an idea. Stateside, you can still pick up certain models of 60's convertibles in good condition pretty reasonably- for instance, a full-sized Olds or Buick could probably be had in good working order and attractive from 20 feet (a 20-footer) for - whaddyou guys think- $10k?The point is, at $100 or more a day to rent one, you might find a US agent to help you purchase one, have it inspected and given a mechanical once-over, get it on the road + insured (not sure of the legal issues there), and then sell it when you're done. Even if you pay for all that and sell it at a marginal loss, you'd probably save money and headaches over trying to rent a car for a long trip to be driven by foreign nationals. I find it hard to imagine many businesses being very comfortable with that; liability and insurance issues could be big. On the other hand, I am not a lawyer so I might be way off.Alternatively, you might figure out what you're willing to pay and see if some private owner is willing to rent it to you for a flat fee.Just some thoughts.Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelDavis Posted March 2, 2005 Author Share Posted March 2, 2005 I forgot you lot mainly drive automatics. Handy when you don't have endless mini roundabouts, sheep, duck, cow, children (and occassionaly) old people crossings and quaint countryside single track roads to manouvre round! I must say there's nothing quite so stomach crunching as the thrill of driving the racing line down a single track bendy road, in the rain, the dark and having no idea that a lorry is attempting the same the other way!Cheers Dave, that's not such a bad idea. American prices are relatively inexpensive to what we'd pay over here, not to mention annoyingly cheaper petrol prices! Also the company who are offering the prize is a breakdown service company, so I reckon they'd be able to figure out the best policies and cover.I'll have a search around for a couple of dealers and make a few comparisons.x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelDavis Posted March 2, 2005 Author Share Posted March 2, 2005 Actually Ron, you're right. The veteran car people are a very nice bunch. It's the petrol heads with the super cars; your Aston Martin, Ferrari types and also the mechanics who tut, take a sharp intake of breath through their pouted mouths and shake their heads at women who need to have their wishbone replaced! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moskowitz Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Rachel, what language do you folks speak over there, can you translate to English? <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelDavis Posted March 2, 2005 Author Share Posted March 2, 2005 Steve mate,I think you need to take a trip over. Alternatively visit the 'Top Gear website which needs to be broadcast in America!!www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/Start the campaign! x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BillP Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Here now, Rachel. We may be grubby Colonials but we do get Topgear on satellite. The best part is the madman test driver jabbering away about the Noble or Lotus he's flogging at 10/10ths, in the rain, taking every corner at opposite lock. Not breathing hard, looking at the camera half the time, he drives like my wife at Mid-Ohio (our local road course). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelDavis Posted March 2, 2005 Author Share Posted March 2, 2005 Apologies from some of us who still only have terrestrial TV!That'd be the eccentric Jeremy Clarkson, incidentally who is from my home town of Rotherham. We all drive like that round here. All them winding country lanes to test the understeer at break neck speed on!My favourite part was when he tried to out manouvre the Apache Helicopter in the Lotus!Or when he had to beat his friends travelling from London to Leon in France on public transport in a Ferrari! He gets all the best jobs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest trevor ward Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Rachel, what language do you folks speak over there, can you translate to English? </div></div> Well...... <span style="font-weight: bold">I</span> can understand her Trevor.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelDavis Posted March 3, 2005 Author Share Posted March 3, 2005 See!Thanks Trev! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest trevor ward Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 Rachel......., 'Tis my pleasure...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Miller Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 My favourite Clarkson quote has to be "it's the Motoring equivalent of Golfing Trousers", but...."Nothing beats saying to your wife, "Darling, shall we take the Aston?"" runs it a close second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Bond Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 Ron-I've never heard you speak so eloquently before! I'm impressed. Obviously Rachel's presence has had profound impact here! I have really enjoyed the bantering about - having lived over seven years in Scotland gives one some special insight into the significance of dialect. Why some evenings I go out to the garage to just sit in my 1935 Morris 8, swing out the windscreen, sip a wee dram and turn on the telly to watch the re-runs of "all creatures-great and small." You know in all my travels overseas I was always able to play with old cars and met the most wonderful people doing so - some say music is the universal language. I say it's old cars!!!Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelDavis Posted March 4, 2005 Author Share Posted March 4, 2005 I totally agree! Admiring a classic is the same in any language; An admiring look, a nod or shake of the head, a sigh and surely the sign language is the same all over the world when you've got your head under the bonnet and the engine's being revved, or soundly ticking over. Ahhhhh. Bliss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hal Davis (MODEL A HAL) Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 I'd NEVER wear a bonnet........Uh.......Hood........Uh........You know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelDavis Posted March 4, 2005 Author Share Posted March 4, 2005 So which is which in your language? What's the part where the engine is and what's the part where you put your shoe shopping?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 Oh Boy! Rachel, I had to consult my wife. She's smarter than me..doesn't take much. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> We find our engines under the "hood". We put our shoe shopping in the trunk or boot of the car. (didn't understand shoeshopping) Generally the place where the spare "tyre" is located. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Uh, that was in the days when we actually had a spare tire. I enjoy the word play. You should hear me speak in my "southern speak". Most of the boys up north of Virginia have trouble understanding me, even when I'm making any sense at all, that is. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelDavis Posted March 7, 2005 Author Share Posted March 7, 2005 I have the same problem. I'm from the more northern parts of England. A windy, wild, rustic old place called Yorkshire. Ever seen 'Brassed off' or 'The Full Monty'? That's my home land and my language. My mother has been trying to send me to allecution lessons for years to learn to speak proper! Anybody south of here can't understand me. As for the US; I took a trip to Boston 3 years ago and was accused of being Irish and Australian. How bizarre?!We still have spare tires over here, we have to. It's those damned loose chippings they keep spraying all over the roads, (for what I have no idea, except to create havoc for any vehicles other than tractors and lorries) and the glass they fail to clear up after the umpteen accidents which uccur every rush hour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Rachel, Terry Bond, the poster above, has told me much about your country. My wife and I would like to travel there sometime in the future. It would have to be the summer though, she hates damp/cold weather. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BillP Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Loose chippings, Foosh! On a trip around Scotland twenty years ago, we hired a Jag saloon (grace, space, pace). One misty morn with wife at the tiller, we darted down a narrow lane enroute to Inverness. Taking a left-hander with her usual briskness, she was alarmed to encounter a gaggle of boulders, the average size of which was akin to your football. She dodged several but ultimately tangled with a couple, flattening one tire and damaging both offside wheels. Chastened but undeterred, we limped into Edinburgh and exchanged our ride for a more appropriately sized yet still sporty Ford Escort GT convertible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Bond Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Do you know what ever became of the Tom Potter collection of early autos and motorcycles at Kirby Stephen? I know that Tom passed away many years ago but last I heard there was some family disagreement about all the "stuff." What a load of pre WWI motorcycles, and my favorite car, the 1899 Marshall may still be around there someplace.Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelDavis Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 I've heard of the name but I don't know what's happened to the collection.The motorcycles may have been taken to the Birmingham Museum of Motorcycles which sadly got burned down last year!I did see a rather excellent well in tune collection of WW1 and WW2 Motorcycles at Red Marley last summer at the hill climbing championships. They can still make it up those 1:2 inclines! And some of the old fellars driving them weren't much younger! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest invicta592 Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 I only just found this post. Tell me Desperate English Blonde, did you find a car, or if not, are you still looking for one? I don't have a Cadillac myself, but have a couple of friends that may be able to help. If you still require a car, let me know what you want to do with it, and I can asl for you. Got a friend with a lovely '60 coupe, another with a 79 Coupe, and could prolly find a couple more if I looked hard enough. All located in South Yorkshire/Lincolnshire area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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