[Spridgets] Question about Calif. defunct British Car delers

[Robert Evans]

I will go through my old receipts and see what I can find.  I used to buy
all of my odds and sods there, but lordy, that was 40 years ago.  I think of
that dealership every week when I pass by what is now a vacant lot next to
the Santa Ana (5) Freeway and Anaheim Boulevard.  What great days those were
when you could actually buy English parts from dealers all over Southern
California.






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Subject: [Spridgets] Question about Calif. defunct British Car delers

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


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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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