[Alpines] Question about Calif. defunct British Car delers

[Carl McLelland]

Only place I can think of that was a Lotus dealer was Bob Challman in Hermosa
Beach or Redondo Beach or one of the "xxxxx" Beach cities in So Cal. And for
parts for them, Dave Bean Engineering in San Andreas, CA. (up in the
Motherload Country).
    Carl
    Lotus 61 FF
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  From: rfeibusch1 at earthlink.net
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  Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:19 AM
  Subject: [Alpines] Question about Calif. defunct British Car delers


  Question about Calif. defunct British Car delers

  This just in from Rod Bean - Can anyone on this list help???

  Contact Rod directly, but please CC me.

  Thanks,

  Rick


  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
  From: Rod Bean <rodbean at earthlink.net>
  Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:11 AM
  Subject: Question about Calif. defunct British Car delers
  To: Rick Feibusch <rfeibusch1 at gmail.com>


  Hi Rick,

  I've been trying to remember the place where I purchased my first
  Lotus Elan (of many since) in 1969.  It was a 1964 purchased used from
  a large British car dealership in Anaheim.  The place might have been
  a distributorship.  They handled all the BMC marques and was named
  something like British Motors or British Car Distributors, British
  Motor Corporation of Anaheim or something like that.  I seem to
  remember that it was near a freeway offramp, though which freeway, I
  can't recall.

  A few years before, I actually had also bought a 1957 Hillman Commer
  Cob (like a Husky but a panel truck instead of with side windows)
  there (with a later OHV Hillman engine installed) from them.  It was
  their parts delivery vehicle and they were upgrading to something
  else.

  What I'm looking for is the correct name and possibly, address of the
  place.  This is just for my records as I am trying to trace my
  automotive history, particularly, my long Lotus history.... all the
  cars

  Thanks for any help, Rick.

  Rod Bean
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