[Spridgets] Question about Calif. defunct British Car delers

Kathryn Bales kgb at frontiernet.net
Wed Sep 23 18:20:28 MDT 2009


Kjel Qvale used to have a huge British car dealership in CA.  Not being 
a Kalifornian, I couldn't tell you if it was in San Francisco or San 
Diego, but I think it was somewhere in the LA area.

kate


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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