Among the other things I learned was that the car arrived in America at Jacksonville, Florida rolling on whitewall Goodyear tires/tyres. Earlier in the spring I went ahead and purchased some nice vintage whitewall tires for the car and finally got around to swapping them today. I thought it would be fun to get the car back as close as possible to how it looked when it came off the ship. So what do you think? My guess is that the whitewall look was an American thing and that many of you from the homeland may frown on what I've done.
Interestingly, while the car is titled as a 1964 model, it was built on June 19, 1962!!! My understanding is that imported cars were title dated by the purchase date back in those days. It was shipped out of Samuel Williams Wharf, Dagenham aboard the vessel 'Helga Oldendorff'. I was able to find a picture of the old girl with a Google image search.
