mk1_4dr Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Rally of the Giants at Knebworth house, a show that I’ve attended for the last 4years but John (Janie’s Dad) has been attending for a number of years.This is the show where all the rare stuff comes out to play, and this year was no exception, its just unfortunate that it decided to try and spoil our day with a downpour or two. Gorgeous Skylark showing some flair I wonder how much those grilles cost to produce Chevy Wagon looked smooth in this ice blue The ‘bomb’ Pontiac SilverStreak Smart little V8, catchy colour too This Dodge van was pretty cool, I'm starting to question the sanity of buying a rough Type2 VW instead of this V8powered livingroom Plymouth Fury Whereas these are pretty fugly The green Plymouth that you can see here was epic, however he left before I could get a decent shot. Tidy Impala was stock as a rock and clean as you like, I even liked the base spec colour This Pontiac was John’s ‘take home’ car. Special looking machine. Pontiac, Ford and Chrysler? http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0494.jpg Mad as a box of frogs - ‘Judge’ GTO dragcar.http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0497.jpg MonteCarlo SS – this passed us on the way home. Lets just say he had a little bit more power than me. Sounded awesome toohttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0499.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0500.jpg Gorgeous Pontiac Wagon – I can’t imagine there’s many of these left, either side of the Atlantichttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0501.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0502.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0504.jpg Buick Wildcathttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0505.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0506.jpg Big Ford looked hard on capless steelshttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0507.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0508.jpg And anotherhttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0509.jpg http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0511.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0512.jpg Drop-dead gorgeous Caddyhttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0513.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0514.jpg Pontiac Convertiblehttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0515.jpg Trying for an arty shot on this Buickhttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0516.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0517.jpg I liked the 2tone on this Studebakerhttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0518.jpg Saw this Ford last year and I was as impressed thenhttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0519.jpg With that Stude’http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0520.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0521.jpg Who needs to build leadsleds when you could buy one of thesehttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0522.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0523.jpg I saw this creep onto the field, its very imposing up closehttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0524.jpg Patina?http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0525.jpg Some more well worn paint, this looked like it’d just got off the boat from So-Cal or Nevadahttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0526.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0527.jpg Not how most Studebaker Daytonas look, but it suits it. I'm sorry I haven’t got more of this but the weather was so bad that it left not long after I took this pic.http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0531.jpg Super clean Apache – nice wheelshttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0532.jpg Quality wheels + body colour combohttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0533.jpg http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0535.jpg Shock at the non-Bullitt 390GT fastback http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0534.jpg Stock Shoeboxhttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0537.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0536.jpg Mmm, Nomad http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0540.jpg How many can you count? Can you name them?http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0542.jpg Big ol’ 442http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0543.jpg No fake patina here, just 30years in the sun http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0544.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0547.jpg Wonder what this would be like as a daily…http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0546.jpg A little bit of an overviewhttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0548.jpg This was just awesome, totally how I would do a rodhttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0550.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0551.jpg El-caminohttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0552.jpg Plenty of T-birds http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0553.jpg And some fullsize waftage. This Calais sedan was factory freshhttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0555.jpg GTX hidinghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0556.jpg A dolly mixing it with the bigger boyshttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0558.jpg GTX with that Caddy breathing down its neckhttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0559.jpg Just incase you forgethttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0560.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0561.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0562.jpg Parked well away from the crowdshttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0567.jpg Noisy jolly pain in the backsidehttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0568.jpg Another opting for the shade of the treeshttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0571.jpg Janie loves this I'm not sure if I ‘get’ ithttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0574.jpg Seen this before, looking well. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0575.jpg In the carpark! Should have been on show. Looks very smart with the cream trimshttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0578.jpg How many Lincoln Zephyrs have you seen recently?http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0579.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0580.jpg I'm not sure if these really have the look I was going for, but meh.http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0581.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0582.jpg Some of the British tin we were parked besidehttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0583.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0584.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0585.jpg Super rare Caddy making its escapehttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0586.jpg Then the sun came out, giving me a chance to get a shot or two of thishttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0587.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0596.jpg Very well done Ford – 1940ishhttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0588.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0589.jpg I was shocked how much this Hardly Ridable shook at idlehttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0593.jpg This was louder (and cooler) than wordshttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0594.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0600.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0601.jpg http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0602.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0603.jpg And finally a couple of group shots of that Vauxhall hued Ford coupe and the homebrew Hudson pickuphttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0597.jpghttp://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0598.jpg And one of this Truck because I liked it.http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h131/mk1_4dr/rally%20of%20the%20giants%2009/DSCF0599.jpg Unfortunately the run home wasn't quite as relaxed (or quiet). Leaving knebworth the exhuast made contact with the centre of the exit gates and made an already blowing exhaust take on a deep big-split-in-you-centre-pipe voice. We decided to risk the 160ish miles home only to have a large portion totally part company just north of newark (it noucned off an into the grass off the hardsholder). A 2ft straight pipe is loud at 60 on the A1, and nigh on unbearable on normal roads setting off from juctions ect. Nobody got too close in traffic though ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlo Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 FANTASTIC! Paradise for a yankie tin lover like myself. At least the sun eventually came out.Love the ugly DeSoto and various other late 50s stuff. Also looks like a '60 Dodge next to that green Plymouth. Amazing to see so many rare American cars in one place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordpoplier Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Amazing to see so much Septic tin over there, I love the look of those Montecarlos. I have an 1965 advert for those Dodge vans somewhere which I'll scan, I think it was called a 'Handi Van' although that one looks like a proper camper job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRegieRitmo Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 I saw this creep onto the field, its very imposing up close Patina? I like the look of this thing - very creepy looking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseflakes Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Great cars - great photos. Thanks for these! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordpoplier Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 ok, so it was a GMC and not a Dodge but here's the scan anyway[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitevanman Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Excellent pics. might put that on my to do list for next season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VWPowered Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 a car i've always wanted since childhood... great pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michiel Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Good work, if you weren't dead already that hearse will do the job... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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