I managed to fit in visits to three car collections one of them having belonged to the grandson of Eli Lilly the pharmaceutical entrepreneur. Pristine is hardly adequate to describe the condition of those cars and the environment in which they are displayed. That is also true of the other more modern collection in Newport Ma. Both of those will feature on my website.
It is the third collection which I want to share with you or at least one particular car in that collection. There are about twenty cars all told; apart from four Datsun sports cars the rest are English - MGs, Triumphs, a couple of TVRs, two Lotus Eclats, Mki and MK.IV Sprites, a Daimler SP250 and a Jensen-Healey. All painted red, as apparently was Mr. Toad's car in 'The Wind in the Willows'.
If you want to know more you will have to visit Bill Putman's (the owner) website - Toad Hall Classic Cars.
Bill raced all these cars, in club events, in his younger days.
What the website will not tell you is that most of the cars are in a shocking condition. If anyone was perverse enough to want to store such historic cars in conditions that would guarantee that they will rot in pretty short order then he or she could find nothing better than the sheds where these cars are stored. Very sad.
Here are some photos I took of the J-H including the VIN No. in case someone wants to update their records. It may not have been red originally.
Nick
