Eye Candy 2/24/12: 53 Starlight custom

[Steve T]

Basil Derrough's sapphire-blue beauty, seen after a rain squall at 2009 CHAA Tillsonburg Wings & Wheels event.



Twenty-three Model Ts also turned out; here are some of them...



Nice 12-cylinder German import put in an appearance the following year...you don't see many of these. (Incidentally this one is currently for sale.)




S.

[Gary1953]

Nice pics. Thank you for posting.
I don't think I've ever seen a Model T with disc wheels before.

[rockne10]

I don't think I've ever seen a Model T with disc wheels before.

Note the all white rubber; definitely an up-town car.

[johnod]

Thanks for posting.
Basil's car looks good, and so does that ME 109.
Do you know where the ME calls home.

[Chris_Dresbach]

Ohhhhh.... Nice '53. Right color, right wheels. Also like the military vehicles in the background.

[junior]

[QUOTE=johnod;624123]
Basil's car looks good, QUOTE]

You two guys should get your cars together for a photo session....I keep mistaking one for the other....they gotta be bro`s! Cheers, Junior.

[Roscomacaw]

One could buy a nicfe, driveable Stude for what it costs to feed that 109 for an hour! And just LOOK at the camber setting on that landing gear! Looks like a "bagged" Chevy truck

[Steve T]

The Messerschmitt is still, for now, hangared at Niagara South Airfield near Niagara Falls. A Hawker Hurricane and a Harvard (Commonwealth T-6 Texan version) keep it company. The owner, Ed Russell, is an architect who some years back won a giant lawsuit against the Disney corporation; a longstanding passion of Mr Russell's was aviation history, specifically the Battle of Britain, so with some of the lawsuit proceeds he went Warbird shopping, garnering a Spitfire as well as the above-named trio. For several years he campaigned his fleet on the local airshow circuit and also hosted some shows at Niagara South itself, but has now decided to exit the field; the Spitfire returned to the UK last year and the Hurri and 109 are for sale (not sure what the plans are for the Harvard).

There are two very similar-looking 53 Starlight rods in southern Ontario; the other one is a tad more purple and has less chrome, but otherwise looks very like Basil's car. Both have been at the same event a few times and probably many photographers have shot only one of them, thinking they were the same car!

S.

[SN-60]

Many runway accidents because of the configuration of that landing gear.

[johnod]

The Messerschmitt is still, for now, hangared at Niagara South Airfield near Niagara Falls. A Hawker Hurricane and a Harvard (Commonwealth T-6 Texan version) keep it company. The owner, Ed Russell, is an architect who some years back won a giant lawsuit against the Disney corporation; a longstanding passion of Mr Russell's was aviation history, specifically the Battle of Britain, so with some of the lawsuit proceeds he went Warbird shopping, garnering a Spitfire as well as the above-named trio. For several years he campaigned his fleet on the local airshow circuit and also hosted some shows at Niagara South itself, but has now decided to exit the field; the Spitfire returned to the UK last year and the Hurri and 109 are for sale (not sure what the plans are for the Harvard).

There are two very similar-looking 53 Starlight rods in southern Ontario; the other one is a tad more purple and has less chrome, but otherwise looks very like Basil's car. Both have been at the same event a few times and probably many photographers have shot only one of them, thinking they were the same car!

S.

Yes that would be mine.

Thanks for the plane info, that must have been quite the law suit,