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Old 29-07-10, 00:28
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Default Kevin Purcell’s Toys

Kevin lives down the road from me and I drive through his property to get to work. I stop at his shed when I have a spare minute on my way home to photograph his progress on restorations. At the moment he has a Dodge and a Reo in the shed. The Dodge is the one being worked on at the moment, I've been a bit slow starting this thread and have a years worth of photos to share starting with how it looked on arival.
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Old 29-07-10, 00:48
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The tear down.......
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Old 29-07-10, 02:53
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Robert,

Does he still have that dead straight WW2 Jeep trailer

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Old 29-07-10, 04:42
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More on the counting of how many parts make up a Dodge.
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Old 29-07-10, 12:58
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The engine is from a car so the carby needed replaceing with a govened one.
The clean up and priming began.
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Old 29-07-10, 13:11
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More priming and painting
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This may be of interest to our Australian MLU'ers, if they are unaware of it.

https://nascoauctioneers.com.au/#/auctiondetail/227

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Old 09-09-20, 19:54
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That's the collection of the late Kevin Purcell - see http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=30824

We've seen his FWD HAR-1 on here before.

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Old 10-09-20, 01:41
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The WC-52 is in the background of the pics of the Command Car (Lot 1), but doesn't seem to be listed. And what has happened to LP Carrier 4963?
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Old 10-09-20, 06:17
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Maybe his nephews are keeping some souvenirs? The answers may be come apparent on the day.
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When I was there at Yaven Ck in 1976 Kevin had a very nice early script MB Jeep project and a US made Willys/Bantam Jeep trailer with the round guards that was in excellent condition. I asked Kevin if he would part with these but he wanted to keep them.
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This may be of interest to our Australian MLU'ers, if they are unaware of it.

https://nascoauctioneers.com.au/#/auctiondetail/227
Does anyone know the status of Kevin Purcell's estate auction?

The above link leads to a blank page and I can see no related auctions under "upcoming acutions" on their website.
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Old 20-01-21, 06:50
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I managed to contact the auction company and hopefully I will have an answer Friday.

Three days ago the link worked fine, then yesterday I tried it again and nothing.
What we were looking at had lot1 then the rest were lot 999, so I am hoping it is down to de catalogued properly. There were mistakes in the entries also the 6x6s were listed as 6x4s.
I'll see what I can find out this end.
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Old 21-01-21, 00:12
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Hi MLU the auction house just notified me the sale has been indefinitely postponed.
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I drove past Kevin’s place today and saw a Pickles Auction ute in the yard and a few people gathered around his storage shed.
One can make a relatively safe assumption that moves are afoot.
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