Nagari race cars

Here's a list of Nagari race drivers that come to mind:-Peter Warren, Ranald Maclurkin, Steve Webb, Chris Clearihan, John Gourlay, John Latham, Alan Edwards, Trevor Jones, Ross Bond, Allan Hanns, Barry Main, Alex Tsakmakis, Bernie Van Elsen, Ross Donnelly, Max Ullrich, Arthur Neill, Rob Wilson, Ian Wookey, Steve Pretzel, Leo Kusters. There's 20 names, That represents a few cars too. I'm sitting by the computer waiting for the emails about who I've left out.

The photo below is of 3 of them and I'l talk about some others from time to time in the future. This photo was taken right down the back of the AIR circuit in the late 70s. Here you can see Alan Edwarda leading John Gourlay followed by Barry Main. Barry's car I'm pretty sure came from Peter Warren as a dedicated race car although it was very much updated and maintained by Barry's mate Norm (no, not Clements). It was B8/46. After its racing career had ended, the chassis went into Rob Luck's show car (see below). Despite the chassis being well engineered, Rob tells me that there's not much of it left as he turns it into a very sophisticated road car - the next stage in its career.
The body was bought by John Van Wokum and this is the car he produced. I believe it is in Western Australia now.
John Gourlay's car is B8/38. It was raced originally by Ranald Maclurkin and quite successfully I might add. John did very well with this car but did retire it after he built another one which used to be referred to as the SuperBolwell. That car, with massive horsepower, went on to monster the Porsches and Panteras of the day. When its race days were over, the chassis found its way under a Saab sports sedan and the body came over to South Australia where it still lives. Keith Rilston rolled his B8/110 at Collingrove hillclimb and bought the body to replace his damaged one. The guard flares were taken back very nicely but Kevin Cociani did such a nice job of repairing the old body that the Gourlay body was never used. Meanwhile, B8/38 was sold to Peter Thiry from Wentworth, NSW. Peter was no stranger to Bolwells having previously had a Mk.7 and also was the original owner of B8/93, a factory demonstration car that Campbell had sold directly to him. He was a friend of the Thiry family. That car spent a long time with a number of South Australin owners and is now in the hands of Sue and Geoff Lewis. After Peter, B8/38 went to Steve Bernhardt in Victoria. I don't know how long Steve had it. I'm sure this car is the one that Richard Gac has had for many years. I haven't seen it since Richard had an unfortunate accident in it at Mallala some years ago.

Alan Edwards' car is also an ex-Ranald Maclurkin car although its history is that it was built up from bits. Ranald's son, Ashley was telling me that Ranald acquired a Nagari body by following one on a trailer heading for the tip. Maybe this was the basis for Alan's car. I do recall that Ranald's soft top was made from a hardtop. Does anybody know what happened to the Alan Edwards car?

Ranald Maclurkin, incidentally, went on from Bolwells to race a very potent TVR Griffith and later an Elfin F5000 and a Matich SR3. I remember one day at Calder, a wheel came off Allan Hanns' Nagari and shot up in the air and came down straight through the TVR windscreen landing alongside Ranald. He was a lucky man that day! I don't know what Ranald does these days but do know that both his sons have Datsun Z racers and with more than a passing interest in 240Zs and 260Zs will follow their careers with interest.