[Mgs] [Healeys] Question about Calif. defunct British Car delers

[Richard Ewald]

I remember the dealership.  It was just east of the Santa Ana freeway (I5)
near Disneyland.  When I say just east, I mean just east.  The west side of
the property abutted the freeway.  Looking at Google maps it might have been
at Ball Road or south of the mouse house at Anaheim Blvd or Katella.  It was
a dark red building, probably masonary.  All of that part of I5 was widened
a bunch over the years (3 lanes to about 8) and that building no longer
exists.  I am guessing it was torn down in the 1980s to make way for the
freeway expansion.
IIRC it was called British Motor Car Distributing, or we just called it
BMCD.  Possibly its proper name was British Motor Car Distributing Anaheim
or possibly Orange County.
Hope this helps.
Rick

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:22 AM, <rfeibusch1 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Question about Calif. defunct British Car dealers
>
> This just in from Rod Bean - Can anyone on this list help???
>
> Contact Rod directly, but please CC me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rod Bean <rodbean at earthlink.net>
> Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:11 AM
> Subject: Question about Calif. defunct British Car delers
> To: Rick Feibusch <rfeibusch1 at gmail.com>
>
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> I've been trying to remember the place where I purchased my first
> Lotus Elan (of many since) in 1969.  It was a 1964 purchased used from
> a large British car dealership in Anaheim.  The place might have been
> a distributorship.  They handled all the BMC marques and was named
> something like British Motors or British Car Distributors, British
> Motor Corporation of Anaheim or something like that.  I seem to
> remember that it was near a freeway offramp, though which freeway, I
> can't recall.
>
> A few years before, I actually had also bought a 1957 Hillman Commer
> Cob (like a Husky but a panel truck instead of with side windows)
> there (with a later OHV Hillman engine installed) from them.  It was
> their parts delivery vehicle and they were upgrading to something
> else.
>
> What I'm looking for is the correct name and possibly, address of the
> place.  This is just for my records as I am trying to trace my
> automotive history, particularly, my long Lotus history.... all the
> cars
>
> Thanks for any help, Rick.
>
> Rod Bean
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