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Andromeda
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 16 9:09 pm
by morgan
Saw an interesting car today. Well, interesting engine anyways. Hot rod T with a blown 426 dick landy hemi - 'Andromeda'. Nick Butler car. Been around for years apparently. Friend is doing some work on it so i will get some pics this week. Still think it would sit better in my ol' charger...
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 16 9:16 pm
by Pete
Saw it at the NEC behind the MMA stand one year.
I don't think its got a neutral cut out switch because when he started it it went back at a rate of knots, only quick thinking by someone avoided a nasty accident.
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 16 9:25 pm
by mustangbooks
It was on my bedroom wall for a while, as it was the centrespread in, I think, the first issue of 'Hot Rod & Custom'....
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 16 5:18 am
by Doug
Didnt it start off as a C cab years ago on the Custom Car show circuit start of the 80s?
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 16 8:36 am
by Scooby
Umm as much I also like my Rods have agree with Morgan that would look better in a Mopar.
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 16 9:09 am
by Blue
Doug wrote:Didnt it start off as a C cab years ago on the Custom Car show circuit start of the 80s?
No that was Nick Butlers other car "Revenge". Both cars remain pretty much as they were built back in the '70's, tucked away for many years they appear every once in a while. They were so far ahead of everything else in style and execution at the time, true works of art.
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 16 11:08 am
by english68
I'm sure I've got old Custom Car magazines with both cars in somewhere - will look them out...
(Always loved 'Revenge' - wasn't it also called Nickelodeon at one point, or was that another car?)
E68
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 16 12:32 pm
by Blue
I remember the name Nickelodeon, but I've long since forgotten what it was...
C power
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 16 12:49 pm
by mopar_mark
Blue wrote:I remember the name Nickelodeon, but I've long since forgotten what it was...
Pretty sure that Nickelodean was NB 1st T, with I think Olds or Pontiac power, long time ago
Andromeda has been owned by Ed Brown for the last few years, I know he advertised it recently, but not sure if it sold or not ?
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 16 8:27 pm
by morgan
Nope. Not sold.
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 16 10:07 pm
by mustangbooks
All Nick Butler's various T buckets and more are listed on his website!
http://www.nick-butler.co.uk/Automotive.html
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 16 11:49 pm
by Motorama
Pete wrote:Saw it at the NEC behind the MMA stand one year.
I don't think its got a neutral cut out switch because when he started it it went back at a rate of knots, only quick thinking by someone avoided a nasty accident.
I remember that, we were standing a few feet away from it, he leant in and started it, as soon as it fired it was off, luckily the hall was pretty much cleared out, he stopped it inches before it went through the restaurant.
I always thought it had a Daimler Hemi motor?
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 16 8:37 am
by Pete
I too assumed it was a Daimler, we live and learn.
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 16 9:14 am
by Blue
Nope, always did have a 426 Hemi in it.
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 16 9:44 am
by Pete
Life in the brown underpants lane then......