by markson » Tue Jun 27, 2017 3:39 am
Erskine
The first car that I owned 3 months after coming to NZ was a 1929 Erskine ,the same as the one in this photo except the paint color had faded somewhat, and was more a rusty brown in color, pretty much the same color as the B Model Ford, in the photo above, but without the white wall's and flag , as the one below, other than that it was the same.
I had purchased it from a car dealer in Greenlane, called Lew Schultz,he was on the corner of Market road and Greenlane road at the time, I think there is a dry cleaner there now,I paid about 300 Pound for it, which was a lot of money then, considering that my Holden that I had in Australia was worth about 1200 Pounds at the time.
It looked very much like my Dads Marmon,but a bit smaller,I remember having 11 guys all packed in like sardines one Saturday night on our way to a party over Herne Bay way.
I will never forget going up Bond street which used to be a very step gully down one side and up the other in Kingsland before the Motor Way was put through, with eleven of us in it,and getting 3/4 up the very steep hill, and all the guys having to jump out and push, as the clutch started slipping and she just didn't have enough momentum to get to the top,and some one in a MKV Jaguar screaming up the hill overtaking us,he most have hit the bottom of the dip in the gully at, at least a 100 mph to fly past us at the speed he was going when he passed use 3/4 up the hill.
Over the following months we had a lot of fun in the old girl and went every where imaginable in her,without to many problems, except it had a small hole in the radiator at the bottom and I had to keep a close eye on the water level and had a few punchers, but other than that, it was a great old car
The Erskine came from the Studebaker stable
Erskine
The first car that I owned 3 months after coming to NZ was a 1929 Erskine ,the same as the one in this photo except the paint color had faded somewhat, and was more a rusty brown in color, pretty much the same color as the B Model Ford, in the photo above, but without the white wall's and flag , as the one below, other than that it was the same.
I had purchased it from a car dealer in Greenlane, called Lew Schultz,he was on the corner of Market road and Greenlane road at the time, I think there is a dry cleaner there now,I paid about 300 Pound for it, which was a lot of money then, considering that my Holden that I had in Australia was worth about 1200 Pounds at the time.
It looked very much like my Dads Marmon,but a bit smaller,I remember having 11 guys all packed in like sardines one Saturday night on our way to a party over Herne Bay way.
I will never forget going up Bond street which used to be a very step gully down one side and up the other in Kingsland before the Motor Way was put through, with eleven of us in it,and getting 3/4 up the very steep hill, and all the guys having to jump out and push, as the clutch started slipping and she just didn't have enough momentum to get to the top,and some one in a MKV Jaguar screaming up the hill overtaking us,he most have hit the bottom of the dip in the gully at, at least a 100 mph to fly past us at the speed he was going when he passed use 3/4 up the hill.
Over the following months we had a lot of fun in the old girl and went every where imaginable in her,without to many problems, except it had a small hole in the radiator at the bottom and I had to keep a close eye on the water level and had a few punchers, but other than that, it was a great old car
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The Erskine came from the Studebaker stable
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