Saturday, October 6, 2018

An interesting course of events.

To me there is no doubt that the car really is the Gp.4 chassis number 2263 resurrected as  a road car at a later date. Similarly the Alan Hanns, Steve Webb or Ranald Maclurkin race Nagaris are still B8/57, B8/07 and B8/38 despite now being turned into road cars. We have also seen pranged Nagaris and the odd Mk.7 re-emerge with the Fibrecar touch but that's a long time ago now. Where it gets really naughty is something like the knobbly Lister that popped up in Australia and representing itself as one that already exists in the UK.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi All,
B8-87 was never a race car it was a road going Blue 351 coupe, owned by Ray Stephenson in NSW. I think you are referring to B8-57 Alan Hanns race car which was originally left hand drive.

John L said...

OOPS.

Paul E said...

I bought some mini parts on eBay and when I went to collect them the seller had an interesting looking chassis sitting under a cover. The little bit I could see looked a bit like a mk 4 so I asked him about it. It was, the seller said, a genuine Brabham that had been raced by the factory. At some point (maybe after the first season?) they were unhappy with the chassis so they built a revised version and discarded the original but kept the same chassis number. At some point he was able to purchase the old chassis and track down a lot of other genuine parts and rebuild it as it was when raced. So he now has a car that is at least 90% genuine Brabham but isn't recognised as such because the chassis number now exists on another car.

John L said...

It's tricky isn't it.