Re: King Kong

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Mendip Blue

As a kid I remember it in Manzoni Gardens, then a short while later it turned up at a second hand car lot 'King Kong Kar Ko'. My memory suggests that was on or around Ladypool Road, and I used to see it often as I grew up around there. I also had links to Camp Hill, so maybe it was there and the memory is somewhat hazy. Can anyone else recall where that car lot was?

There is a used car lot next to Bordesley Station opposite the Blue Marlin, and I think was the site of the King Kong Car Lot. I always remember going to town on the 50 bus from the Maypole, over the flyover, and I’d always see KK behind the railway bridge, looking like he was climbing over it to get to the bus. I used to frighten my sister saying he was coming over the tracks to get her. She’d run downstairs to complain to Mum, as we would always try and be at the very front of the top deck on Brums own free ????

From Wiki...

"...Mike Shanley, who changed the name of his dealership to King Kong Car Co. and displayed the statue at his sales lot on the A34 Stratford Road, next to the former Holy Trinity church in the Camp Hill area of the city."