{"id":21089,"date":"2022-05-04T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21089"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:13:23","slug":"episode-577-skeoch-car-re-creation-hailed-as-epic-restoration-in-national-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=21089","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 577:  Skeoch CAR re-creation hailed as &#8216;Epic Restoration&#8217; in national magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EPISODE 577    THE SKEOCH CAR<br \/>\nalan skeoch May 2022<br \/>\nWell this note from Geoff Allison was a big surprise that may interest readers. The \u2018Little Skeoch\u2019 had a short life when created in 1921 when fire destroyed the factory and 6 of the 10 models ever made went up in smoke.  Fragments of the car remained \u2026 especially the paper plans.   Thanks to Geoff and his gifted friends a model of the little car has been made as you may remember as I did a story on the car some time ago.<br \/>\nWell today a thorough story has been printed in the june 2022 edition of Classic Car.  And I mean through.  With a pile of detail pictures. The full article is included.<br \/>\nWhat is our family connection to this car.?  I really do not know for sure. Nice to imagine the connection may exist though.<br \/>\nalan<br \/>\n> > Dear Transatlantic Skeochs, > > I am sending you a  copy of an article published in the June 2022 edition of Classic Cars which refers to the re-creation of a 1921 Skeoch Cycle  Car as an epic restoration &#8211; for your interest. > > Kind regards, > > Geoff<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?attachment_id=21091\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/page3image56057776-218x300.jpeg\" alt=\"{CAPTION}\" width=\"218px\" height=\"300px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/page3image56057776-218x300.jpeg 218w, https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/page3image56057776.jpeg 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?attachment_id=21092\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/page5image56059024-218x300.jpeg\" alt=\"{CAPTION}\" width=\"218px\" height=\"300px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/page5image56059024-218x300.jpeg 218w, https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/page5image56059024.jpeg 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ClassicCarsJun22.pdf\"><img src='https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/plugins\/postie\/icons\/silver\/pdf-32.png' alt='pdf icon' \/> ClassicCarsJun22.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPISODE 577 THE SKEOCH CAR alan skeoch May 2022 Well this note from Geoff Allison was a big surprise that may interest readers. The \u2018Little Skeoch\u2019 had a short life when created in 1921 when fire destroyed the factory and 6 of the 10 models ever made went up in smoke. Fragments of the car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}