I purchased this car in 1972 when I was just 13 using Paper Route money.  It is one of three made with Coachwork attributed to James Young which was built at the Avon Coachworks in Coventry, England.  At that time a gentleman named Ed"Butch" McVey had a broker running around England buying up cars and shipping them over here, since cars were cheaper over there.  Ed would then fix them up and sell them to collectors here in Indiana.  Ed became my early mentor in the auto world letting me hang out in his shop on weekends serving as a gopher. A stunning variety of European cars was constantly coming and going through his garage and this provided me with an early education into cars that one would have never otherwise seen this side of the pond.

The Car resides on the same platform that early Jaguars employed, and has several unique features like freewheeling.  The engine is a pushrod flat head straight six with an incredibly long stroke.  Top speed is about 55 MPH.  The windshield cranks out to provide nice ventilation and it has RHD of course.

the running boards were missing when it came over from England so Ed fabricated a little triangular deal that never really worked that well.  I repainted the car after stripping it to bare metal in the current paint scheme but the painter didnt really follow my instructions on the sweep panel, so I have never really liked this paint job.    They used fiberglass which then cracked, and the top insert had been filled with metal at an earlier date.

I blew a head gasket back in high school and Ed and I replaced it one summer while I was home from college, it only held for a matter of hours, and the car was parked.   About 5 years ago I set about getting the engine running again and was able to get a decent gasket after about 1 year of effort.   This has been accomplished but then the Gas tank needed redone and the MG shop that had put the motor together seemed incapable of doing this so I retrieved the car and it has sat ever since.  In the interim period it was left outside for a while which really deteriorated the body so it now needs some wood work replaced.  Now that I have a decent garage this project will get back on the front burner and I plan on doing a body off restoration.

work is progressing on this project and the car should be road worthy again by '06.  I have since discovered this is the only known 6 cylinder Avon "Waymaker" Saloon in existence.