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440 4 speed said:
Nice roadster, guessing newer than 1959. Built for export?
After looking closer, could it be as early as 57. About 1962 a fellow came back to our hometown with one,I think it might have been a 58.
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I don't recall the year of the car, I was in grade one at the time. :) We did have at least one MG dealer in Vancouver at the time (Fred Deeley's) so yes, the car was likely built for Canada. Incidentally, the Deeley family was involved in sales for a long time; importing Harley Davidson motorcycles starting in 1917 and is the sole distributor for Harley in Canada, an Indian dealer and the first to sell Honda in the English speaking world. When my dad worked there in the 1960's they were, at various times, dealers for Mercedes, Studebaker, MG - Triumph (cars and bikes), Jaguar, and American Motors. I got a lot of cool car brochures brought home for me from that place.
 
Photon440 said:
I don't recall the year of the car, I was in grade one at the time. :) We did have at least one MG dealer in Vancouver at the time (Fred Deeley's) so yes, the car was likely built for Canada. Incidentally, the Deeley family was involved in sales for a long time; importing Harley Davidson motorcycles starting in 1917 and is the sole distributor for Harley in Canada, an Indian dealer and the first to sell Honda in the English speaking world. When my dad worked there in the 1960's they were, at various times, dealers for Mercedes, Studebaker, MG - Triumph (cars and bikes), Jaguar, and American Motors. I got a lot of cool car brochures brought home for me from that place.
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About 1955 my brother got a 1942 army surplus Chief with side car. This was in the winter. It was apart, but his friend lost interest and my brother got it.
It and the parts went down in our basement. I recall him ordering parts from Fred Deeley. He put the bike together and I don’t remember how they did it, but he, my Father and friends hand bombed it out of the basement. My brother said (you can ride it when you can pick it up off its side) which I did when I was 13. Sure felt cool riding down our country gravel roads.
He also got parts for his XK120 roadster and XK150 drop head coupe from the dealership.
 
440 4 speed said:
About 1955 my brother got a 1942 army surplus Chief with side car. This was in the winter. It was apart, but his friend lost interest and my brother got it.
It and the parts went down in our basement. I recall him ordering parts from Fred Deeley. He put the bike together and I don’t remember how they did it, but he, my Father and friends hand bombed it out of the basement. My brother said (you can ride it when you can pick it up off its side) which I did when I was 13. Sure felt cool riding down our country gravel roads.
He also got parts for his XK120 roadster and XK150 drop head coupe from the dealership.
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He's lucky he got those parts. Shortly after that, Trev Deeley cut a hole in his warehouse floor, put a bin underneath and shoveled all of his brand new Indian spare parts into it and dumped them all. Since Indian went bankrupt in 1953, and there were no new bikes to sell, he decided to ditch his stock so that whenever a customer came in to get Indian parts, they'd be told that there were no more parts to be had, and perhaps they should buy a Harley-Davidson instead.

That's the story he told in his biography 'Motorcycle Millionaire'.
 
Photon440 said:
He's lucky he got those parts. Shortly after that, Trev Deeley cut a hole in his warehouse floor, put a bin underneath and shoveled all of his brand new Indian spare parts into it and dumped them all. Since Indian went bankrupt in 1953, and there were no new bikes to sell, he decided to ditch his stock so that whenever a customer came in to get Indian parts, they'd be told that there were no more parts to be had, and perhaps they should buy a Harley-Davidson instead.

That's the story he told in his biography 'Motorcycle Millionaire'.
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Something similar happened like that at the local Honda dealer. Except that they put all the Indian bikes and parts in a warehouse and forgot about them.
That warehouse was partially cleaned out in the late 60's. Many Indian motorcycles still in shipping crates were hauled away. The dealership owner wasn't happy that had happened.

Then again after the owner's death the warehouse was cleared out along with a few other warehouses. Only this time most everything was given away or sold.
Many old Honda's still in crates left the warehouse and a few antique cars and trucks.

A good friend ended up with the 58 Dodge tanker truck that was used to keep fuel in everything.
 
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