Any Gordon Keeble Owners Out There?
Discussion
Mellow Yellow said:
Now with a stack of updated photos and full description, sounds like a very nice example.
Not to sure about the designed by John Gordon and produced in association with Jim Keeble bit. And not sure an extra brake servo is a notworthy feature (unless they mean it has three?) or for that matter is a kenlowe fan. But yes it looks good apart from the dodgy front badge which looks like a keeble horn push stuck onto an ashtray - odd given that I thought repro front badges were available. Will be at the FoS on Friday and intend to be at the auction (just to observe - though the ex Bill Wyman Citroen SM looks interesting). The briefest of glimpses but when its a GK, you take anything. This is the exit parade from Wilton House on 6th June - some very nice cars. Chassis 48 gets its nose in at about 00:42 near the start. Enjoy, but don't blink or you might miss it....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkYBzYujsZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkYBzYujsZY
GK52 said:
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22723/preview_lot/...
Chassis 34 for sale in Bonhams Festival of Speed auction.
Thought it had been withdrawn as above link now dead but just moved:Chassis 34 for sale in Bonhams Festival of Speed auction.
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22723/lot/362/
Been a little while since the last post... Chassis #30 is now back in NW London after being powder coated in the original chassis colour, it is currently having fresh Ali panelling fitted before turning it into a rolling chassis!
I must say it looks amazing and the owner may not agree but would love to see it at the NEC minus body before finally putting its clothes on...
Also added a picture of a current/new project we are working on along with many other little ones...
Regards Daryl.
I must say it looks amazing and the owner may not agree but would love to see it at the NEC minus body before finally putting its clothes on...
Also added a picture of a current/new project we are working on along with many other little ones...
Regards Daryl.
I've just spotted an advert on eBay for a Peerless which claims to have GK Chassis 75 under it.
Can that be right? I thought 75 was a complete pretty car.
As an aside, does anyone here have moulds to make body panels? I want to build a Special Saloon racer "Gordon Keeble", and therefore need to make a body - which will get dramatically modified. I don't want to butcher a genuine car, that wouldn't be right. So only need a body (or the panels to make) to do the job. I have a chassis that I think will do the job with little or no mods, and is very capable. Running gear would be Chevy with a a Jerico NASCAR box, and Winters quick change rear axle. All basic and simple, but effective!
Can that be right? I thought 75 was a complete pretty car.
As an aside, does anyone here have moulds to make body panels? I want to build a Special Saloon racer "Gordon Keeble", and therefore need to make a body - which will get dramatically modified. I don't want to butcher a genuine car, that wouldn't be right. So only need a body (or the panels to make) to do the job. I have a chassis that I think will do the job with little or no mods, and is very capable. Running gear would be Chevy with a a Jerico NASCAR box, and Winters quick change rear axle. All basic and simple, but effective!
thunderbelmont said:
I've just spotted an advert on eBay for a Peerless which claims to have GK Chassis 75 under it.
Can that be right? I thought 75 was a complete pretty car.
As an aside, does anyone here have moulds to make body panels? I want to build a Special Saloon racer "Gordon Keeble", and therefore need to make a body - which will get dramatically modified. I don't want to butcher a genuine car, that wouldn't be right. So only need a body (or the panels to make) to do the job. I have a chassis that I think will do the job with little or no mods, and is very capable. Running gear would be Chevy with a a Jerico NASCAR box, and Winters quick change rear axle. All basic and simple, but effective!
Ch34 fetched £79,900 Inc buyers premium. Did you get a look at it Huntsman? presume it had had a full body off but not easy to tell from pictures. Any news on your own restoration?Can that be right? I thought 75 was a complete pretty car.
As an aside, does anyone here have moulds to make body panels? I want to build a Special Saloon racer "Gordon Keeble", and therefore need to make a body - which will get dramatically modified. I don't want to butcher a genuine car, that wouldn't be right. So only need a body (or the panels to make) to do the job. I have a chassis that I think will do the job with little or no mods, and is very capable. Running gear would be Chevy with a a Jerico NASCAR box, and Winters quick change rear axle. All basic and simple, but effective!
Hopefully Oneof99 will enlighten us as to the Ch75/Peerless mystery either here or in the club mag, Ch75 is certainly a complete car. Not sure that anyone has moulds, no spare panels available, you could try the club but short of buying a complete car and making your own I don't think you'll have much joy.
Not the only Peerles at that auction, there's another with a far lower estimate:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PEERLESS-/271905532657?p...
Also a Peerless "special" which seems to have nothing peerless about it but looks quite pretty (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PEERLESS-AUSTIN-HEALEY-SPECIAL-/271905577199?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f4ed5d8ef), fascinating auction even an amphibious seaplane.
Make that £81,800 when you add the VAT to the buyers premium. I had a good look at it (will do a more detailed report for Keebling idc). A nice tidy Keeble but no sign of a full body off. Documentation thin - The Dutch reg doc plus a nice original owners handbook. Steering wheel aside a nice original interior (seats not retrimmed). So a nice shinny Keeble. As good as 81 say? Not in my opinion...
As for the Oakhampton auction well it looks intersting (and 5% premium rather than Bonhams 15%). Alas whilst in the west country next week wont get a chance to have a look but the V6 essex Peerless looks interesting - in my view a good idea, some more grunt without the full 327. Is a cut down Keeble chassis still a keeble chassis - not in my opinion. Its just a cut down chassis but without a proper look - a Keeble rear end maybe? - its just a Peerless with a 350 up front which makes the estimate of 10k look a bit high. Though on the subject of interesting fibreglass rarities with yank grunt the Trident race car could be fun...
As for the Oakhampton auction well it looks intersting (and 5% premium rather than Bonhams 15%). Alas whilst in the west country next week wont get a chance to have a look but the V6 essex Peerless looks interesting - in my view a good idea, some more grunt without the full 327. Is a cut down Keeble chassis still a keeble chassis - not in my opinion. Its just a cut down chassis but without a proper look - a Keeble rear end maybe? - its just a Peerless with a 350 up front which makes the estimate of 10k look a bit high. Though on the subject of interesting fibreglass rarities with yank grunt the Trident race car could be fun...
GK75 is indeed complete and running well. In the treatise on the marque: 'Gordon-Keeble a British Supercar of the 1960s', Charles Giles and Ernie Knott document that chassis 75 was given a new body and new chassis following an accident.
I contacted the vendor of the GK/Peerless and he believes that the chassis for the car being sold is the damaged one from chassis 75 sold by Ernie following the rebuild, which the vendor subsequently shortened and repaired. He apparently wrote an article in the Keebling magazine in late 2001 (which pre-dates my membership) on the topic.
Following the rebuild, Chassis 75 was initially re-registered as chassis 100 in 1972, until it was realized that 100 already existed making it (apologies chassis 100) the last ever registered Gordon-Keeble. Perhaps more correctly it should have been Chassis 101, however, it is now registered as C100EX75. The chassis, glass panels and even the hinges all, however, are marked with 75. Being the last body to be used, it also has the very late run revised venting under the bonnet and face level ventilation.
I will update this post with some photos in due course. All adds to the interesting history of the car!
I contacted the vendor of the GK/Peerless and he believes that the chassis for the car being sold is the damaged one from chassis 75 sold by Ernie following the rebuild, which the vendor subsequently shortened and repaired. He apparently wrote an article in the Keebling magazine in late 2001 (which pre-dates my membership) on the topic.
Following the rebuild, Chassis 75 was initially re-registered as chassis 100 in 1972, until it was realized that 100 already existed making it (apologies chassis 100) the last ever registered Gordon-Keeble. Perhaps more correctly it should have been Chassis 101, however, it is now registered as C100EX75. The chassis, glass panels and even the hinges all, however, are marked with 75. Being the last body to be used, it also has the very late run revised venting under the bonnet and face level ventilation.
I will update this post with some photos in due course. All adds to the interesting history of the car!
Edited by GK52 on Thursday 2nd July 15:29
Hello,
Just caught up with the Keeble posts, after a long gap.
I used to own #19 and #91, and was the first owner to attempt a body off restoration in the mid '70's.
I worry about the rear radius rods shown in the posts of 5th March.
All the new ones shown just have the eyes for the bushes welded on to the square tube, without the wrap around strap.
This leaves the weld in tension which is not good, whereas with the wrap around there is a larger amount of weld in shear, which is much stronger.
It may be that the photo is of unfinished items, but could someone reassure me.
I don't like to think that anyone is driving around with them as shown.
Regards,
Neil.
Just caught up with the Keeble posts, after a long gap.
I used to own #19 and #91, and was the first owner to attempt a body off restoration in the mid '70's.
I worry about the rear radius rods shown in the posts of 5th March.
All the new ones shown just have the eyes for the bushes welded on to the square tube, without the wrap around strap.
This leaves the weld in tension which is not good, whereas with the wrap around there is a larger amount of weld in shear, which is much stronger.
It may be that the photo is of unfinished items, but could someone reassure me.
I don't like to think that anyone is driving around with them as shown.
Regards,
Neil.
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