Dixie Flyer "Firefly" speedster photographs

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No problem! John

I need someone to keep me on track.

Bernie 

1922 Dixie Flyer 

1934 Lagonda Rapier

1986 Alfa Romeo 33. 

I promise no photos of the Alfa. 

It is my daily driver and work horse/pick-up truck!

I should have added:- Compulsive rescuer of lost causes & restorer of basket cases.......

11-17-2008

Hello

Now to get back to the original subject of this post. Remember it was to be all about the Dixie Flyer. I have just been speaking with my engine man and he assures me that he has just one more machining operation before he can give me back all the bits ready for me to start assembly. Problem is that he will also give me a bill that will shake the foundations. Meanwhile I have pulled out the mudguards ( the British call them wings and I think that the Americans refer to fenders) they need some work but they are the original and I think have an interesting/unique shape. They can and will be repaired.

12-7-2008

Hi all you Dixie Flyer watchers. Sorry no more photos for the moment but the ENGINE should be back home early next week once we get the clutch mechanism sorted out and balanced. It would have to be one of the earliest examples of Messers Borg & Beck's art. The other news is that on wednesday & thursday we are off on the 200km trip to north-east Victoria ( Australia) to do some more farmyard searching and a bit of detective work on the garage that held the Dixie Flyer agency in the late teens and early twenties. Watch this space........

12-24-2008

Hi From Sunny Australia.

While some of you are enjoying(?) a nice white Christmas with snow piled up to a couple of feet or more deep. Spare a thought for us poor Aussies with a balmy 25 degrees C forecast for Christmas day and a somewhat warmer 36 for the next day.

Meanwhile I hope that this Christmas brings you good cheer and blessings aplenty and despite all the Guru's worst foreboding that the New Year brings you Good Health and many more miles of enjoyable "Vintage" motoring.

1-9-2009

Hello all you "frosties" Sorry about the weather you are experiencing Not much fun in and open car! The Good news is that the dixie Flyer engine is all together and installed into the chassis. I hope to have some more photographs soon but work comes first. We are also somewhat distracted by planning for our next European trip on the Lagonda. It will have to be all serviced and ready for shipping to England by early/mid march. Sea voyage takes 6-8 weeks. Air travel for us is about 26 hour. Carine If you are reading this we will be in Arnhem on July 2 probably in Bonn a couple of days earlier. We would like to meet you if possible. There will be 12 Lagonda Rapiers and one Bugatti type 40 on our tour. Before then we will be at the Fougeres Rally, Chanteloup Hillclimb, Grand Prix de Tours(rally).