Reply With QuoteWho do you take a car like that to for a service, a mechanic or a carpenter?
Lovely thing mind you.
...but this is simply magnificent:
https://www.charlesleith.com/cars-fo...brake-for-sale
Sadly I neither have £29k nor garaging for another old car so it's not going to be coming to chez Fox.
"A man of little significance"
Who do you take a car like that to for a service, a mechanic or a carpenter?
Lovely thing mind you.
Plenty of similar vehicles were made, by some good craftsmen.
More than a few were on my beloved Riley RM chassis; also Lea Francis did a nifty line in them, to name just a couple.
I had an RM version built by a somewhat shoddy maker; it was a nightmare to maintain. As has previously been referred to, more time spent oiling the wood than servicing the mechanics!
And let's hear an appreciative shout for the most prolific of the lot - the Morris Minor Traveller.
That's my kind of estate car!
Mulliner even did a woodie version of the series 1 Land Rover, a rather nice looking thing, but as it was an SWB (86" I think) is was still only 2 door, and somewhat impractical for rear passengers.
I bought a '27 Alvis, and we call it a woody
Surf City, here we come
You know it's not very cherry, it's an oldie but a goody
Surf City, here we come
Some rather lovely Rolls Royce conversions were done - plenty of images on Google. There's several Bentley conversions, too.Originally Posted by unclealec
There's also the Ford Woody Wagon, of course.
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Jim.
Lovely thing. Rather into Alvis at the moment
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It's indeed a car for an estate! Great find. And I think that the text about the 10,000 gbp upgrades are not nonsense! The details of this car are fabulous.
Interesting! I bet that it's not well-known otherwise I would bet that there's someone in a saw mill busy to make a 2024 version of that (With all those modern-day YT short of woodworking skills). Is it this one? It's ugly as .... but a later model (e.g. 110) would make a great base for a re-try.Mulliner even did a woodie version of the series 1 Land Rover, a rather nice looking thing, but as it wt as an SWB (86" I think) is was still only 2 door, and somewhat impractical for rear passengers.
And, it would be eye-watering expensive. What makes the OP's find an even better deal!
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Google 'wooden watch' and you'll be amazed what's worse than a wooden car.
The Alvis and other wooden estate cars are the end of an era: the end of the horse-drawn coaches. The coach builders did one last trick before they went into mainly 'badge engineering' (e.g. Vandenplas for BL). The fact that they're the sole survivors makes that they're interesting to collect. Don't forget, those really old cars were built with 'daily' technology from that era. Once well-maintained, they do not break down. Only wear-and-tear brings them to a standstill. And then the Alvis community steps up.
I am not in the market for anoter car - and buying one from the UK makes it very expensive these days. But I think this one needs to be in the limelight.
BTW, here's a nice piece of info: https://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/coachbuilders.aspx
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