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Piratekombi · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:52 am Post subject:

Here's a shot of the poptop from underneath (down):

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'72 Sierp Bros poptop - "Woger the Jolly Piwate"

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Brookie · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:24 am Post subject:

Brookie · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:29 am Post subject:

Avondale Motors still exist and in panel and smash repair business-be interesting if same business.
Perhaps the Pirate could phone and check if it is connected.

http://www.truelocal.com.au/business/avondale-motors-pty-ltd/dandenong

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Piratekombi · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject:

Alice checked, and found they are the same business - since (at least) 1966.

She also found this link:
http://law.ato.gov.au/atolaw/view.htm?locid='JUD/71ATC4101'&PiT=99991231235958

edit: I can't seem to get the whole link to work properly (it is only reading part of it as a URL), so it will have to be copy 'n pasted into the browser address bar.... It seems to work fine otherwise.

Here is an extract:

"[Avondale Motors] is a company which at all material times before 1 April 1968 was called C. & G. Parts Pty. Ltd. For some time before the year 1966 [Avondale Motors] and a related company, C. & G. Motors Pty. Ltd., had been wholly owned subsidiaries of Automobile & General Industries Ltd. (``Autogen''). C. & G. Motors Pty. Ltd. carried on the business of selling and servicing motor vehicles from showrooms in a'Beckett Street, Melbourne and Nepean Highway, Moorabbin and from a service station at Yarra Bank Road, South Melbourne. That company had franchises for Peugeot, Renault, Studebaker, Citroen, Aston Martin, N.S.U. and Mazda cars and Diamond T. trucks, and sold and serviced vehicles of those descriptions, but it also sold used cars of other makes and serviced cars of any make. [Avondale Motors] sold motor parts and accessories to C. & G. Motors Pty. Ltd., to other motor dealers and traders and to the general public. Its stock-in-trade included some parts that were for use only in the vehicles the subject of the franchises (the sales of these parts constituted about three-quarters of [Avondale Motors'] sales) and some parts that could be used in other types of motor vehicles as well. It operated from the premises of C. & G. Motors Pty. Ltd. at a'Beckett Street, Nepean Highway and Yarra Bank Road and also from a storeroom at Heidelberg where the vehicles for which C. & G. Motors Pty. Ltd. held franchises were assembled."

from: http://www.volksworld.com.au/sales.htm
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'72 Sierp Bros poptop - "Woger the Jolly Piwate"

Aus liebe zum kombi

Brookie · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject:

Sounds like an ATO section that is not accessible to humans Smile

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Brookie · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject:

Piratekombi · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject:

I spotted another Sierp Bros poptop at the recent Vic DOVW - it was a 1972. There is also an Adelaide one on another forum - it is also a 1972.

I am yet to see any Sierps earlier than 1970, or later than 1972.
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....Woz

'72 Sierp Bros poptop - "Woger the Jolly Piwate"

Aus liebe zum kombi

Brookie · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject:

They may have only been a small volume but obviously lasted well Smile

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Brookie · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject:

Sierp Bros nameplate re -installed on GioVANni

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Brookie · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:48 am Post subject:

Poptop up showing timber surround/mounting

Timber from inside

Most important addition

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