This photograph was taken at One Tree Hill when Bernie Van Elsen had the farm up there. It was owned by Geoff Mann at the time. He was the one who painted it metallic blue. One of the pictures on the ebay site (the one where it's on the back of the truck) shows the electric blue bonnet with the forward facing scoop and the recessed blinkers on each side of the mouth. This same car was Murray Willmott's first race car (the orange one). I see the roll bar is no longer in the car. Avid readers may recall this car being the subject of "where is it now?" when we were wondering what happened to it after it moved to Western Australia. Now we know.
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just looked at the ad, lots of work to be done, but already quite a bit done. At what price would a finished Mark 7 change hands in Australia?
Bruno, there's 2 or 3 for sale for about the $25,000Aus mark and a REALLY nice one for $35,000. When Colin reads this he can tell you what that is in Euros.
The damn Aussie peso keeps going up and up but today on a telegraphic transfer aussie banks will put AU $ 30,000 into your account for 18,300 euro Mk & sold over the last year have been "complete-registration history" but requiring work $ 19,000, never completed - no reg history $ 12,000, a screaming hot one in Perth with rego is available for $ 26,000 with a 325 HP motor which cost $ 20,000 on its own, basket cases with reg history for $ 6000. Be interesting to see a MK 7 racing in Europe next summer would it not. be fun cruising around Zurich, Italy and Germany too. People would be fascinated altho I saw a black Lancia Stratos in central Zurich yesterday. As Bruno would agree 997 Turbo's are a dime a dozen.
I want it...only I'm about $6k short. Will look great whn finished.
Spoke with the guy selling the car on behalf of the owner and the price hoped for seems to be $ 16,000. Much of the work may be years old and in need of doing again as is the problem with long term car rebuilds. Me, I think it needs about $ 12,000 spent to get it back on the road finished and that is if you do much of the work yourself
Great to see the old car again, had lotsa fun in that.
Yep, LOTS of fun. What's happening Murray? Drop us an email.
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