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The Sorn car

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 9:29 am
by Anonymous
Knew this car when Bobby McDonald owned it.

When he died and the collection came up for auction we all went down, some of us had pooled money, and got swamped by all the big money bidders who came up from darn sarf. We were gutted.

No idea what happened to his black Superbird. It used to sit on the forecourt of Dalblair Ford in Ayr.

No idea what happened to his Ram Air IV Judge.

No idea what happened to his 427 '67 Camaro, rumoured to a be a Nickey, or Baldwin, or something like that.

I think his Boss 429 Mustang is still in the UK.

He did like his cars, and bikes, and tanks .... :shock:

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 9:30 am
by Anonymous
I think that is Jim's hemi RoadRunner to the right and a very rare UK bound Chrysler VIP on the left.

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 11:45 am
by Cannonball
the charger is my all time favorite,
its gone abroad now what a shame

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 12:45 pm
by Jon
I remember my mate beating it up the strip in his cortina...

he's never been right impressed with hemi cars ever since :lol:

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 4:30 pm
by JC
i had the superbird we also have the 74 super duty trans an being done from sorn

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 4:55 pm
by Anonymous
Can we have some more of the Sorn story??????

I was talking with JC about it on Saturday, pretty intriguing stuff. Who was this guy and was the collection private?

some great cars mentioned there - particularly the 429 Mustang, the 'special' camaro and the RA IV.


Whats it all about? who got what in the end?

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 5:29 pm
by Dave-R
The 429 Mustang. Now that was a Muscle car. :thumbright:

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 7:30 pm
by R.RUNNER
DO YOU REMEMBER THIS , SANDY????????????????????????????????? :P :P :P

valiant

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 9:16 pm
by LONGSHOT
Sandy,thats my old aussie valiant on the left-i think that was avon park-
32000 miles from new,RGT 5E,no one gave it a second look :roll: -funny how things change-quite a bit of interest in aussie stuff now.
sold it for 2k a few months later :cry: sorry back to thread................

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 9:55 pm
by Anonymous
Bloody hell. Imagine rolling up in aa yard like that and finding a 69 Hemi charger. :shock: :thumbright:

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 10:15 pm
by Cannonball
Clivey wrote:Bloody hell. Imagine rolling up in aa yard like that and finding a 69 Hemi charger. :shock: :thumbright:
clive i might be wrong but i think that is at the sorn estate ready for the walk around auction, :shock: hemi charger made £7,500

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 10:16 pm
by R.RUNNER
Cannonball wrote:
Clivey wrote:Bloody hell. Imagine rolling up in aa yard like that and finding a 69 Hemi charger. :shock: :thumbright:
clive i might be wrong but i think that is at the sorn estate ready for the walk around auction, :shock: hemi charger made £7,500


:thumbright: :thumbright: :thumbright:




:P :P :P

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 10:23 pm
by Anonymous
:shock:


Nice wheels though. ;)

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 10:35 pm
by Anonymous
I had the Sorn catalogue with all the prices written on it for years.

I just can't lay my hands on it now.

We went down in my friend's 1971 Olds Delta 88 convertible.

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 09 10:41 pm
by Anonymous
Can you remember what cars were there Sandy? why was it called the Sorn collection?