Lonsdale yd41???

[Formula Autos]

This thread popping up again has reminded me of a conversation with my Dad a few weeks ago, which touched on Dale’s Lonsdale that I tried to find a couple of years ago (see posts passim). 
 

My Dad reckoned that when the new Dale (let’s call him Dale2, for ease) had “got his feet under the table” next door he investigated the untouched detached garage at the property, only to find a car in there. Now, don’t get too excited - this seemed to be a Colt Celeste I’m aware of re-surfacing round here. Apparently Dale2 contacted the original Dale (let’s call him LonsDale) about getting it moved out of there. Dale2 had told my Dad that the car in the garage was the last one remaining of LonsDale’s hoarde of cars, that LonsDale had been finding homes or storage for, after he split up with Julie and moved out.
 

Now it’s a slim hope, but if the car in the garage was the Celeste I’d heard about, and given that’s still in existence, there’s a chance the Lonsdale was found a home, or LonsDale managed to store it somewhere. Though as he died years ago, and I think I’ve found some evidence of his Lonsdale passing through a scrapyard nearby, I still think it’s probably been cubed long ago - even if he had managed to save it for a while.

 

Or maybe that’s the one that ended up being mentioned in the comments of Corsicar’s YouTube video? Bought by someone off Dale?
 

What I know for certain about LonsDale’s Lonsdale (having seen it with my own eyes) is that it was definitely: 

A Lonsdale, and not a Mitsubishi - I remember the badge where Dale had taped over Lons as a joke, so it said Dale

A saloon

Brown when I saw it (though that’s not 100% definite as the colour it left the factory with, I doubt anyone would have spent money spraying such a low value car another colour - especially an unfashionable one. Maybe call it a 95% certainty it was brown from factory?)

Not in too bad a condition at that point, and in the hands of a bloke who did bodywork/repairing cars for a living

 

 

 

I’m still clinging to a tiny bit of hope it’s out there somewhere ….

[mk2_craig]

BBC have dug out this old clip featuring Mick and Pegs scran van. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cqxy0v8e2g7o
 

Unfortunately the camera angle doesnt give us any way of telling whether this is a Lonsdale or a Galant, unless there’s any giveaway details visible?

[georgeinabz]

BBC have dug out this old clip featuring Mick and Pegs scran van. 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cqxy0v8e2g7o
 
Unfortunately the camera angle doesnt give us any way of telling whether this is a Lonsdale or a Galant, unless there’s any giveaway details visible?

Not sure they imported the galant /sigma estate into the UK, remember the japs had a 10% embrgo for a while hence we didnt get the full range, looks like lonsdale wheels

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[georgeinabz]

I stand corrected old sigma was estate only on model run out I assume ,Galant only saloon, I assume as not to impose on Lonsdale sales as both imported and distributed by Colt Car Co. and their dealers. Shrewd guy the MD , Michael Orr.

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[georgeinabz]

I didn't remember apparently as the Lonsdales didn't sell very well they were rebadged as Mitsubishi, I suppose you would have to check vin plates to see I you've got an Aussie assembled Galant

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[Six-cylinder]

14 hours ago, georgeinabz said:

Not sure they imported the galant /sigma estate into the UK, remember the japs had a 10% embrgo for a while hence we didnt get the full range, looks like lonsdale wheels
 

I have had a look at my 1988 Glass's Guide Check Book and it appears Sigma Estate were sold in the UK at the same time. 

[georgeinabz]

I have had a look at my 1988 Glass's Guide Check Book and it appears Sigma Estate were sold in the UK at the same time. 

I noted the statement in the GG , "previously marketed as Lonsdale " 2.6 was Aussie spec engine only

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[sierraman]

Is there no inroads into finding out who this Irish farmer is with the barn?