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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Buchanan bodied drag car.
This is a page from the Feb. 1968 edition of Auto Sportsman. It's Victorian, Barry Ferrari's car. It had a Holden grey and a Singer 4-speed. Where's this one now?
It's not one of the Buchanan bodies based off Tom Sulman's DB3S Aston but the later Buchanan Cobra that Nat was selling as a complete car.
The Cobra, Nat used the name long before AC and Carrol Shelby, was designed by Stan Brown and Nat with a chassis built by the Pressed Metal Corporation and designed by Jack Pryor of PRAD using BMC Standard 10 mechanicals.
The Cobras lack of success led to the demise of the Buchanan Motor Company. 8 cars were built and an extra mold was created by a Cobra owner that produced a number of spare bodies.
This particular Cobra seems to have turned up in NZ fitted with a Jaguar engine.
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It's not one of the Buchanan bodies based off Tom Sulman's DB3S Aston but the later Buchanan Cobra that Nat was selling as a complete car.
The Cobra, Nat used the name long before AC and Carrol Shelby, was designed by Stan Brown and Nat with a chassis built by the Pressed Metal Corporation and designed by Jack Pryor of PRAD using BMC Standard 10 mechanicals.
The Cobras lack of success led to the demise of the Buchanan Motor Company. 8 cars were built and an extra mold was created by a Cobra owner that produced a number of spare bodies.
This particular Cobra seems to have turned up in NZ fitted with a Jaguar engine.
Dug up a photo of it from the owners in NZ.
http://www.v8vantage.com/buchananmotorcompany/images/Cobra%20dragster.jpg
Don't know what I'm doing wrong but I can't seem to get that photo up.
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