The Sorn car

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Mar 16, 09 9:29 am

Knew this car when Bobby McDonald owned it.

When he died and the collection came up for auction we all went down, some of us had pooled money, and got swamped by all the big money bidders who came up from darn sarf. We were gutted.

No idea what happened to his black Superbird. It used to sit on the forecourt of Dalblair Ford in Ayr.

No idea what happened to his Ram Air IV Judge.

No idea what happened to his 427 '67 Camaro, rumoured to a be a Nickey, or Baldwin, or something like that.

I think his Boss 429 Mustang is still in the UK.

He did like his cars, and bikes, and tanks ....

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Mar 16, 09 9:30 am

I think that is Jim's hemi RoadRunner to the right and a very rare UK bound Chrysler VIP on the left.

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Mon Mar 16, 09 11:45 am

the charger is my all time favorite,
its gone abroad now what a shame

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Mon Mar 16, 09 12:45 pm

I remember my mate beating it up the strip in his cortina...

he's never been right impressed with hemi cars ever since

JC · Post by JC » Mon Mar 16, 09 4:30 pm

i had the superbird we also have the 74 super duty trans an being done from sorn

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Mar 16, 09 4:55 pm

Can we have some more of the Sorn story??????

I was talking with JC about it on Saturday, pretty intriguing stuff. Who was this guy and was the collection private?

some great cars mentioned there - particularly the 429 Mustang, the 'special' camaro and the RA IV.

Whats it all about? who got what in the end?

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Mar 16, 09 5:29 pm

The 429 Mustang. Now that was a Muscle car.

R.RUNNER · Post by **R.RUNNER** » Mon Mar 16, 09 7:30 pm

DO YOU REMEMBER THIS , SANDY?????????????????????????????????

LONGSHOT · Post by **LONGSHOT** » Mon Mar 16, 09 9:16 pm

Sandy,thats my old aussie valiant on the left-i think that was avon park-
32000 miles from new,RGT 5E,no one gave it a second look

-funny how things change-quite a bit of interest in aussie stuff now.
sold it for 2k a few months later

sorry back to thread................

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Mar 16, 09 9:55 pm

Bloody hell. Imagine rolling up in aa yard like that and finding a 69 Hemi charger.

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Mon Mar 16, 09 10:15 pm

Clivey wrote:Bloody hell. Imagine rolling up in aa yard like that and finding a 69 Hemi charger.

clive i might be wrong but i think that is at the sorn estate ready for the walk around auction,

hemi charger made £7,500

R.RUNNER · Post by **R.RUNNER** » Mon Mar 16, 09 10:16 pm

Cannonball wrote:
Clivey wrote:Bloody hell. Imagine rolling up in aa yard like that and finding a 69 Hemi charger.
clive i might be wrong but i think that is at the sorn estate ready for the walk around auction, hemi charger made £7,500

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Mar 16, 09 10:23 pm

Nice wheels though.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Mar 16, 09 10:35 pm

I had the Sorn catalogue with all the prices written on it for years.

I just can't lay my hands on it now.

We went down in my friend's 1971 Olds Delta 88 convertible.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Mar 16, 09 10:41 pm

Can you remember what cars were there Sandy? why was it called the Sorn collection?