Supercar dealers - Finchley Road in the 70s!
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As a kid in the 90's I lived on the Finchley Road and St John's Wood.
I know it's 20 years after the time you speak of, but there was an Alan Day just beyond Frognal Station. Might the Colin Grant business have morphed into that?
The other 'car' business I remember was almost opposite where the current 02 centre is, and just before the Holiday Inn. That place used to have the odd Countach and 355 in there. I'm not sure where Colin Grant was meant to be, but I'm thinking either one of those sites might have been an original location?
Great place to grow up as an inner city kid. I remember once the windows of our flat were blown out when the IRA had a random bin bombing campaign. Always something happening on the street.
I know it's 20 years after the time you speak of, but there was an Alan Day just beyond Frognal Station. Might the Colin Grant business have morphed into that?
The other 'car' business I remember was almost opposite where the current 02 centre is, and just before the Holiday Inn. That place used to have the odd Countach and 355 in there. I'm not sure where Colin Grant was meant to be, but I'm thinking either one of those sites might have been an original location?
Great place to grow up as an inner city kid. I remember once the windows of our flat were blown out when the IRA had a random bin bombing campaign. Always something happening on the street.
tigerkoi said:
As a kid in the 90's I lived on the Finchley Road and St John's Wood.
I know it's 20 years after the time you speak of, but there was an Alan Day just beyond Frognal Station. Might the Colin Grant business have morphed into that?
The other 'car' business I remember was almost opposite where the current 02 centre is, and just before the Holiday Inn. That place used to have the odd Countach and 355 in there. I'm not sure where Colin Grant was meant to be, but I'm thinking either one of those sites might have been an original location?
Great place to grow up as an inner city kid. I remember once the windows of our flat were blown out when the IRA had a random bin bombing campaign. Always something happening on the street.
That was Sparks. I know it's 20 years after the time you speak of, but there was an Alan Day just beyond Frognal Station. Might the Colin Grant business have morphed into that?
The other 'car' business I remember was almost opposite where the current 02 centre is, and just before the Holiday Inn. That place used to have the odd Countach and 355 in there. I'm not sure where Colin Grant was meant to be, but I'm thinking either one of those sites might have been an original location?
Great place to grow up as an inner city kid. I remember once the windows of our flat were blown out when the IRA had a random bin bombing campaign. Always something happening on the street.
I was driving down the road and was caught up in those bombs.
My memories of Colin Grant international is that they were @ Hornsey. Their showroom was a very unusual tubed shaped building on the left, side of the rd, coming in from the A10 / Nth circular road.
An ex pal bought a circa 81/82 model, Martini liveried 911 Turbo from Colin Grants. I’ve been trying to find out what happened to it. He put his own dodge plate on the car 26 KOU.
He chopped the Turbo in for a new 928 S4, in circa 87 and then the car seems to have vanished.
An ex pal bought a circa 81/82 model, Martini liveried 911 Turbo from Colin Grants. I’ve been trying to find out what happened to it. He put his own dodge plate on the car 26 KOU.
He chopped the Turbo in for a new 928 S4, in circa 87 and then the car seems to have vanished.
Colin Grant International occupied showroom space on the Finchley Road where previously Caterham Cars had a showroom in the early 70s. It was always a showroom I looked in as I passed.
Sparkz was owned by a trader named Nicky Katz in the 80s who lived in Amersham.
Coming out of London a little more along the Finchley Road was Marshall Wingfield in the 70s. Owned by Gerry Marshall. He had a very good saleswoman named Fiona who sold me a black Jenson Healey. It was only when I got it home I realised the inside of the boot was white! I swapped it a few months later at Colin Grants for an MGC GT. By the time I’d driven that home I realised all the road tests of them were true. I swapped it for a Series 3 drophead manual E Type at Henlys at the top of Parkway in Regents Park. That was a better car and despite British Leyland manufacturing it was totally reliable and I’d have another very happily if it was going to be like that.
Sparkz was owned by a trader named Nicky Katz in the 80s who lived in Amersham.
Coming out of London a little more along the Finchley Road was Marshall Wingfield in the 70s. Owned by Gerry Marshall. He had a very good saleswoman named Fiona who sold me a black Jenson Healey. It was only when I got it home I realised the inside of the boot was white! I swapped it a few months later at Colin Grants for an MGC GT. By the time I’d driven that home I realised all the road tests of them were true. I swapped it for a Series 3 drophead manual E Type at Henlys at the top of Parkway in Regents Park. That was a better car and despite British Leyland manufacturing it was totally reliable and I’d have another very happily if it was going to be like that.
Colin Grant International occupied showroom space on the Finchley Road where previously Caterham Cars had a showroom in the early 70s. It was always a showroom I looked in as I passed.
Sparkz was owned by a trader named Nicky Katz in the 80s who lived in Amersham.
Coming out of London a little more along the Finchley Road was Marshall Wingfield in the 70s. Owned by Gerry Marshall. He had a very good saleswoman named Fiona who sold me a black Jenson Healey. It was only when I got it home I realised the inside of the boot was white! I swapped it a few months later at Colin Grants for an MGC GT. By the time I’d driven that home I realised all the road tests of them were true. I swapped it for a Series 3 drophead manual E Type at Henlys at the top of Parkway in Regents Park. That was a better car and despite British Leyland manufacturing it was totally reliable and I’d have another very happily if it was going to be like that.
At the time, 1975, each was around £3k to buy.
Sparkz was owned by a trader named Nicky Katz in the 80s who lived in Amersham.
Coming out of London a little more along the Finchley Road was Marshall Wingfield in the 70s. Owned by Gerry Marshall. He had a very good saleswoman named Fiona who sold me a black Jenson Healey. It was only when I got it home I realised the inside of the boot was white! I swapped it a few months later at Colin Grants for an MGC GT. By the time I’d driven that home I realised all the road tests of them were true. I swapped it for a Series 3 drophead manual E Type at Henlys at the top of Parkway in Regents Park. That was a better car and despite British Leyland manufacturing it was totally reliable and I’d have another very happily if it was going to be like that.
At the time, 1975, each was around £3k to buy.
Tazar said:
Colin Grant International occupied showroom space on the Finchley Road where previously Caterham Cars had a showroom in the early 70s. It was always a showroom I looked in as I passed.
Sparkz was owned by a trader named Nicky Katz in the 80s who lived in Amersham.
Coming out of London a little more along the Finchley Road was Marshall Wingfield in the 70s. Owned by Gerry Marshall. He had a very good saleswoman named Fiona who sold me a black Jenson Healey. It was only when I got it home I realised the inside of the boot was white! I swapped it a few months later at Colin Grants for an MGC GT. By the time I’d driven that home I realised all the road tests of them were true. I swapped it for a Series 3 drophead manual E Type at Henlys at the top of Parkway in Regents Park. That was a better car and despite British Leyland manufacturing it was totally reliable and I’d have another very happily if it was going to be like that.
At the time, 1975, each was around £3k to buy.
My Late Dad bought a K reg 1971 silver V-12 2+2 in early 1973Sparkz was owned by a trader named Nicky Katz in the 80s who lived in Amersham.
Coming out of London a little more along the Finchley Road was Marshall Wingfield in the 70s. Owned by Gerry Marshall. He had a very good saleswoman named Fiona who sold me a black Jenson Healey. It was only when I got it home I realised the inside of the boot was white! I swapped it a few months later at Colin Grants for an MGC GT. By the time I’d driven that home I realised all the road tests of them were true. I swapped it for a Series 3 drophead manual E Type at Henlys at the top of Parkway in Regents Park. That was a better car and despite British Leyland manufacturing it was totally reliable and I’d have another very happily if it was going to be like that.
At the time, 1975, each was around £3k to buy.
In 85 / 86, Colin Grant International was located in the tube shape building on the left, coming down the A10, from the Nth Circular.
They regularly advertised in Super Car Classics etc, around that time.
I have still had no luck in tracing that Martini 911 Turbo.
anonymous said:
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The Escort van ( with side windows ) belonged to a neighbour called Brian W Endersbee , he had a heating and plumbing biz in Tottenham. He sadly passed away of Motor Nurone disease, in the circa late 90s, @ a comparatively young age. This photo was taken in early 1986 in Chingford.
there was a showroom on fairfax road in the 60s and 70s next to my mums shopwhere we lived, we had a neighbour in w2 who had a muira that was kept in the same underground garage as our cars beneath a block called rainham. our upstairs neighbour at 12 hyde park place had a blue espada that was usually parked on bayswater rd. that would have been all of the 70's.
the bloke ooopsite on the 5th floor had fashion shops (mates) and a white silver shadow, he wanted to get into property...he succeeded as he built the shard many years later (irvine sellers)
the bloke ooopsite on the 5th floor had fashion shops (mates) and a white silver shadow, he wanted to get into property...he succeeded as he built the shard many years later (irvine sellers)
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