An update on the Winston Bolwell Mark 3.

Just when I stick my neck out and say something like "it may very well no longer exist", of course it exists. Iain McPherson to the rescue again. Campbell took the new Nagari along to the July meeting of the AHOC in Melbourne and gave a presentation. In that presentation he touched on the Bolwells' links to the Austin Healey Owners Club of Vic. and vice versa. This prompted Iain to write a bit more on the Austin Healey/Jaguar based specials that became the Mark 3s. Below is the car that we talked about Winston developing and here is a bit more information about it. This particular car, registered GGS 360, had a number of owners, including a long time AHOC-Vic. member, John Wasley, from Ballarat, before Winston bought it as an original Healey. As well as fitting the Jaguar engine, Winston modified the front end to resemble a Maserati, fitted a windscreen which has previously been the rear window of a Hillman Minx and a hardtop with a recess for a huge petrol filler cap. As we mentioned before, Winston was killed in another car and his friend Paul Morton who owned it by then, took the approach that if Winston couldn't drive it then nobody could. However, this is not where it ended. In about 1981, John Cameron was able to prise the car away from Paul after trying for many years. Two years later he sold the car to Rob Rowland who sold it to John Gray. Another 3 years later Peter Robinson from Sydney became the owner and he commissioned The Healey Factory to rebuild the car, but with modifications to the original Austin Healey rear mudguards and boot, and a change of colour to BRG. Peter eventually lost interest in the car before it was finished and it was sold to a Bolwell Club member (was this Dave Bruce?). He did some additional work before selling it to John Gray who retains ownership today. John has the original rear panels and will complete the rebuild to the way Winston had it, including its red colour.

Most of the above is directly quoted from Iain and both he and the AHOC-Victoria have given me the OK to relate this in this post.