Early RHD Squarebacks??

Rich Oakley · Post by **Rich Oakley** » 1st August 2007 - 3:56pm

There don't seem to be many 'early' (ie: pre-1964) RHD Squarebacks around. Are there any left in the UK??

Post by **Danny Lord** » 1st August 2007 - 6:28pm

Ive not seen that many over the years, there seems to be a few LHD Imported ones popping up every now and again,

There was a chap (cant think of his name at the mo) who had a nice white '64 1500 'S, lives/d over Bath way, was for sale a while ago.

Do you know who I mean Mr Editor? he came with us to the Type 3 show nr Amsterdam in '97.

Danny.

Rich Oakley · Post by **Rich Oakley** » 1st August 2007 - 6:46pm

Danny Lord wrote:Ive not seen that many over the years, there seems to be a few LHD Imported ones popping up every now and again,

There was a chap (cant think of his name at the mo) who had a nice white '64 1500 'S, lives/d over Bath way, was for sale a while ago.

Do you know who I mean Mr Editor? he came with us to the Type 3 show nr Amsterdam in '97.

Danny.

I vaguely remember that one. A bit too 'late' for my liking though

There's Rich Whitlock's 63 Aussie imported one, but I really can't think of any others!!

Post by **Editor** » 1st August 2007 - 11:18pm

There was a Sea blue/Pearl white Notch for sale about a year ago - I think that was RHD.

I'm racking my brain to remember the white one in Amsterdam - was it Kerry, from Wilts Air-Cooled, maybe?

Larry and Lin would probably remember - they know him better than me.

Post by **Danny Lord** » 1st August 2007 - 11:36pm

Editor wrote:
I'm racking my brain to remember the white one in Amsterdam - was it Kerry, from Wilts Air-Cooled, maybe?

Larry and Lin would probably remember - they know him better than me.

I dont think that was him, I'll have to look him up in one of the old club yearbooks (remember them?

)

I should be purchasing a scanner soon, first Job will be to scan all the early Squareback pics I have, will put them on here for Rich and probably others to drool over!!

Danny.

Post by **Editor** » 2nd August 2007 - 11:37am

Yearbooks - oh yes, did my first one in 1986 I think - is it time to reprint it, do you think? I've run out of ideas now.

That was done on a Sinclair QL computer with twin microdrives - £299 including thermal printer, I think.

nidge · Post by **nidge** » 2nd August 2007 - 9:10pm

here's one

owned by Mrs Rikki James. It's a 62 but RHD conversion

Rich Oakley · Post by **Rich Oakley** » 2nd August 2007 - 9:19pm

Cheers for the pics Nidge. I knew Rikki's was a 'moody' conversion.

greenfyregirl · Post by **greenfyregirl** » 7th August 2007 - 3:53pm

Atom man's (Gary's) old white square was a 64 model, very lovely!!

He sold it a couple of years ago, i think.

actually, not sure if it was rhd tho, praps not!!!

Rich Oakley · Post by **Rich Oakley** » 8th August 2007 - 10:56pm

Anybody out there with a pre-August 1963 model????

Rich Oakley · Post by **Rich Oakley** » 9th August 2007 - 3:54pm

Danny Lord wrote:Ive not seen that many over the years, there seems to be a few LHD Imported ones popping up every now and again,

There was a chap (cant think of his name at the mo) who had a nice white '64 1500 'S, lives/d over Bath way, was for sale a while ago.

Do you know who I mean Mr Editor? he came with us to the Type 3 show nr Amsterdam in '97.

Danny.

I found a picture of a White RHD one 4341 FG. Was this the one?

Post by **Danny Lord** » 10th August 2007 - 2:25pm

Rich Oakley wrote:
Danny Lord wrote:Ive not seen that many over the years, there seems to be a few LHD Imported ones popping up every now and again,

There was a chap (cant think of his name at the mo) who had a nice white '64 1500 'S, lives/d over Bath way, was for sale a while ago.

Do you know who I mean Mr Editor? he came with us to the Type 3 show nr Amsterdam in '97.

Danny.
I found a picture of a White RHD one 4341 FG. Was this the one?

Not the one I was thinking of, but have seen this one at Stanford hall afew years ago,

I think the owner of the one I mentioned was called Dave Jones,not been able to confirm this yet.

Danny.

Rich Oakley · Post by **Rich Oakley** » 25th September 2007 - 8:39pm

Danny Lord wrote:
Editor wrote:
I'm racking my brain to remember the white one in Amsterdam - was it Kerry, from Wilts Air-Cooled, maybe?

Larry and Lin would probably remember - they know him better than me.
I dont think that was him, I'll have to look him up in one of the old club yearbooks (remember them? )

I should be purchasing a scanner soon, first Job will be to scan all the early Squareback pics I have, will put them on here for Rich and probably others to drool over!!

Danny.

Have you got your scanner yet Danny???!

Really looking forward to seeing the early RHD Sqback pics. A good friend of mine has just found one that I'm hoping to purchase- early '63, original owner with 30,000 miles on the clock.

nidge · Post by **nidge** » 25th September 2007 - 9:55pm

Rich Oakley wrote:
A good friend of mine has just found one that I'm hoping to purchase- early '63, original owner with 30,000 miles on the clock.

for real???

Rich Oakley · Post by **Rich Oakley** » 25th September 2007 - 10:05pm

nidge wrote:
Rich Oakley wrote:
A good friend of mine has just found one that I'm hoping to purchase- early '63, original owner with 30,000 miles on the clock.
for real???

Yup! RHD pre-'S' Variant, here we come (hopefully!)

Post by **Danny Lord** » 25th September 2007 - 10:33pm

Rich Oakley wrote:
Have you got your scanner yet Danny???! Really looking forward to seeing the early RHD Sqback pics. A good friend of mine has just found one that I'm hoping to purchase- early '63, original owner with 30,000 miles on the clock.

Hi Rich, Yep got mi scanner and posted some pics here .....

viewtopic.php?t=1719

not all RHD tho,

look forward to seeing your Square

Danny.

Rich Oakley · Post by **Rich Oakley** » 25th September 2007 - 10:51pm

Fantastic pics Danny!

Still no 'early early' RHDs in there though. Does anybody of know of any survivors??

I love this one...

....and this one (shame about the sardine tin roof)...

Clem · Post by **Clem** » 27th September 2007 - 9:53pm

Theres the guy with the white Oz RHD one that was on Fuchs a year or so ago .... Foxy? The Restowagen guy? I think its undergoing resto work. 62 RHD afaik

panalvan · Post by **panalvan** » 29th September 2007 - 7:37pm

JDL 305F belongs to me its actually a 1966 uk rhd square but the orignal owners ordered it to be delivered in south africa where the husbund was stationed at the time .They ordered it from a isle of white dealer when they came back for family reasons but had it deliverd to his work address then they returned in 1968 when he retired from service so the car is a uk spec rhd 66 model.Its sitting in my garage nice and snug under its cover waiting for more summer weather
Cheers

Paul Knight · Post by **Paul Knight** » 18th October 2007 - 9:18pm

i broke up an early rhd square (63 or 64) some years ago - i got it from rich grant (he had a pink square pictured in one of the earliest issues of volksworld and has ben into type 3s for years). i used the front clip as a donor for the old white fastback - the rest of it was well-beyond saving... honestly! i'll dig out some pics when i get a mo (i'm 99% sure it was an 'n', but the pics will confirm this). the cool thing about it was that it was almost certainly factory painted dark green with a black roof... which i think was quite an unusual combo?