York, Western Australia Automotive Museum.

laingsoft (39)in #cars • 7 years ago

York is a small town in West Australia. It is known for a "Flying 50", which is an annual automotive race.

Much of the town is designated as a historical site. With many of the buildings being built during the gold rush period (1880 - 1900), as such, much of the neuvo-colonial architecture is still standing. Here is a shot of the Town hall, which is immaculately maintained:

York also has an automotive museum that maintains quite a few novel cars. The museum was originally set up by a wealthy benefactor to exhibit his car collection, but since then has grown quite a bit, and includes some very rare cars. Among them, these ones were the cars that captured my fancy.

The 1935 MG PA Airline Coupe:

This car had an inline 4, and was capable of going up to 75 mph, which for a car of it's age, was quite breakneck.

The Jaguar XK150:

The predecessor to the XJS, and all of the modern jaguar sports cars. This car had a top speed of 132 mph. Pretty fast considering the production run of this car was 1957 - 61

The Subaru Type K:

This little K car was Subaru's first vehicle. This little car started the empire that would become what subaru currently has. It was cheap, light, and spacious. Everything that a little japanese car needed to succeed.

Speaking of Japanese Cars. By far, one of the rarest cars in this museum was the Toyota 200GT. This is a $1.15 MILLION dollar vehicle:

Now for the weird. In Germany, there was a desire for a small, fuel efficient vehicle that could be used within the city. Messerschmitt was up to the task with the KR200. They essentially took the back of their scooter and plugged it into a light canopy that their aircraft division made. The result was a tiny little 3 wheeler, with barely enough horsepower to move.