Monday, September 28, 2020

Wow! Where was this hidijng?

 Guys,

Lucky enough to purchase this c1959 Milano a few days ago. Been fully registered since 1967 ... that's 53 years in the one owners hands who was only the 3rd owner. Previous owners his brother and first who built and raced it .. Johnny Shaw of the St George area. It is running a Skoda 1100cc engine and was raced from when first built around 1959 first with this motor, then a Skoda 1200 then a Grey motor then a Peugeot 203 motor before going back to this original engine. Ported twin SU's 3/4 race cam about 9 to 1. Built on a Skoda 4/40 chassis and running gear from new after the donor car late 50's fell off the trailer and rolled several times whilst being delivered new to Brisbane.
It raced at Oran Park and Amaroo maybe elsewhere before these were finished. Does anyone have any recollection of a Skoda powered Milano back then ?
A great fun thing to drive, light and seems to handle ok on the very old tyres ! Pretty much all Skoda except for a Wolseley rack and pinion steering. Skoda uses transverse leaf front and back. Needs a bit of TLC as hasn't been driven much last 30 years ...
Any help greatly appreciated ...

Ed Holly.

Lucky guy Ed.

There's a Milano in SA that has a Skoda rear end. Matt has it up at Eudunda. At some stage it acquired a 180B motor. I'm not sure what it had before. Steve might know. He had it at one stage.

Post script : Sorry, it was really an Italia, very much modified and it was originally fitted with a TR motor.



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

JL is the one in Eudunda my old green one? With the roof cut off?

John L said...

Yep.

Anonymous said...

Ok was registered as a Milano but was a sectioned Italia. Original motor was TR2 plus box. I have sent a pic to your email.

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