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1936 McLaughlin-Buick Special [41] 
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![1936 McLaughlin-Buick Special [41]](i652031.jpg)
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2013-11-28 13:25 |
I know it's rather unlikely, but somehow the car reminds me of an Hudson Terraplane... |
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◊ 2013-11-28 14:38 |
Well it's certainly not English ! a fine car about to be crushed  |
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◊ 2013-11-28 14:55 |
Registration London Dec 1935. -- Last edit: 2013-11-28 15:01:24 |
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◊ 2013-11-28 14:55 |
1936 Buick, possibly also a Canadian-made McLaughlin. -- Last edit: 2013-11-28 14:56:51 |
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◊ 2013-11-28 18:21 |
What a shame. It looked to be in good condition. |
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◊ 2013-11-28 18:33 |
in 1965 it was an old outdated clunker -- Last edit: 2013-11-28 18:33:16 |
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◊ 2013-11-29 04:31 |
A few more years, and it could well have been a part of the explosion of interest in vintage cars that occurred in the early 1970s. Shame that it made it so long, even through a World War, in such fine shape, only to be carelessly destroyed. |
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◊ 2013-11-29 07:39 |
They cannot have been exactly common in UK even then. The film is demonstrating a new car crusher which makes a very poor job of crushing this car , I am sure it would have totally ate a rotten pre war Morris 10 !! .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2013-11-29 18:58 |
what probably killed it was the introduction into the Uk of the MOT roadworthiness test....which killed off a whole lot of 1930s and 40s cars when introduced around this date. |
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◊ 2013-11-29 20:41 |
American, or, in this case American-Canadian cars at this period of time were cheap to buy because they were not cheap to run. In my nearest small provincial town there were two or three pre-WW2 American cars, used as taxis, or by people who needed a lot of seats like the local monastery. As has been referred to above, the annual road worthiness tests did indeed remove many cars from the road. A cheap large car that needed some repair, say brakes or a suspension overhaul, would wind up on the scrap heap because you could go out and buy another similar car for the same money and drive it until it failed the test. In the village where I lived, the local plasterer had a series of Straight-Eight Daimlers, into which went all his gear, including bags of plaster and the tin bath he used for mixing. Cheaper than a van! -- Last edit: 2013-11-29 20:43:29 |
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◊ 2014-09-04 03:12 |
This one is a Series 40 Special. The clue is the small gap between the side mounted spare wheel and the front door pillar. |
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◊ 2016-04-11 00:47 |
It wasn't only the Ministry's Ten Year Test, intr. 1960, although 2491tj is quite right in that some owners would junk an erstwhile pride and joy because the lights needed to be converted to pass the test. Small things like that and, as Mike says, most older cars had just scrap value at the time. But even in the 1950s, many pre-war cars went to the scrap yards because, after years of austerity, people were keen to move over to a new Somerset, Consul, Minor and so forth. A 'Car Mechanics' editorial of 1969 served the preservationist cause well, with an enthusiastic staff member insisting that pre-war cars were not 'bangers' and the leader posed the question, in a few years' time 'who knows what they will be worth?' Indeed. This 'Down in the Dumps' film was pretty harrowing viewing but, to cheer yourself up get hold of, say, some mid-60s 'Motor Sport' back numbers and read the small ads offering what would become classic cars. |
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◊ 2018-04-10 02:46 |
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