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aeronca65t

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This Berkeley was at the Moss FallFest Show, Dover, NJ on Sept 16.
The thing was *perfect*!
The owner (from NY) told us that it had been mostly used as a prop (indoors) in a place that did weddings. But it was pretty beat up when he got it. He brought it in an enclosed trailer, but it ran fine (lottsa smoke and ring-ding-ding sounds).
The engine in this one was the twin and he had another parts car that he had bought in New England. Didn't get his name.

The hubcaps are new repros bought in the UK. Shifter was straight back for each higher gear. Nice little chain drive to front wheels.
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*Smoke and noise-maker*
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Other stuff:

I decided to leave #11 at home due to possible rain (it held off), so Bruce brought his EMRA racing Mini instead.
We gave away EMRA flyers and chatted with lots of nice folks.
Bruce let lots of little kids sit in the Min.....we believe our cars are for touching.

Bruce's Mini with a nice Mog in foreground. Then Lotus clone and two Tigers + V-6 Alpine behind Min.
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A NZ Jag replica. Very nice. Another one often comes too! A shame they weren't *both* there!
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Jim V's FlatRad (originally Vangard-powered but converted to TR-3 powere at the Mog factory in the 50s) and Fred's newer Mog (he's owned it 20 years and just sold his Lotus Seven America that he'd owned for 27 years). He'll drive the Mog from NJ to Maine in a few weeks.
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Nice... I just hope our local show next weekend is as good as that one, ours is both British and European... Crossing my fingers that the park drys up in time

I don't think we have any local Berkeley's, at least I've never heard of one locally, last time I saw a Berkeley was back when I lived in Ontario. Ditto on the Jaguar D-Type replica...
 
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You're right about the Berkeley restoration – he did an outstanding job on a car for which parts can be very hard to find. It's owned by a couple from New Jersey and I spent quite a bit of time with them at the Berkeley (US) 50th anniversary event in Cincinnati in July. Great folks with an interesting little collection of cars (when did you last see a Sabra?) They like to restore them, travel around to various events with them, and then “retire” them to drive locally and at cruise nights.

I was impressed by his doing most of the work himself, with his wife chipping in to help. Shortly after the Berk meet, the car won its class in a regional AACA event in North Carolina and I think it'll be at Hershey in a couple weeks (also AACA).

The car was given the “Ambassador” trophy in Cincy because the Berk guys are counting on it doing well in some high profile events and raising the enthusiast population's level of interest in the cars – thereby causing our parts cars to increase in value so we can sell them, make a bundle, and buy Morgans. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

It wasn't an easy restoration (in-process photo below) and he really deserves a lot of credit.

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And what then?

The Morgan guys driving up the prices of MGBs? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
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