Saturday, February 20, 2010
Mark 7 project for sale
This is a late, Kadala Mark 7. The body and chassis is in exceptional condition as it was driven only briefly before being dismantled and it has recorded Victorian registration credentials and the paperwork to go with it. It has a hot 186 & 4-speed. Just about everything is there except for a wiring loom, guages and rear shockers.
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Does the car still have the Nagari style one-piece wheels?, I remember it sitting in Andy Walls workshop 30 years ago, in similar condition as it presents now.
PeterG
Wow 30 years! The wheels are Holden steel 14". I have sent a pic to Lowy. This is mainly an assembly job. I have brought the car indoors into the garage today and will paint the chassis next and then commence assembly provided it is not sold. It presents like the Mk 7's did in the early 1970's. Good to see a Mk7 chassis and body that are not torn apart by the ravages of road use, no splits, cracks etc. I have sent JL a question for you via email
I wonder what happened to the Holden pattern Nagari wheels? The car, in 1979 was at Andy's "Engine Factory" in Kangaroo Flat, where I rebuilt the engine of my Nagari, to my remembered knowledge it had been close to being registered but finished and then disassembled, I was told the front end was a LH or LX Torana, I think it was bare gel coat. Andy's brother Chris (you may recall an early post of his Gold Mk5) owned the car, and when Andy sold up, the car was stored outside in a locked yard, for a number of years, untill L.R. purchased it.
PeterG
P.S. Years ago I used to see an early Monaro with a set of one-piece Nagari wheels complete with Bolwell centres, When questioning the owner, he told me previously worked at R.H.Grant Foundry, where they were made, and thought a set would look good on his Monaro. Unfortunately I didn't get a photo, or attempt to buy the wheels from him. The car resided in Inglewood North-West of Bendigo.
Paperwork with the car has a registration number mentioned. The original builder got it registered in the fashion of all those years ago (bare gel coat) and then stored the car from where it was stolen and disassembled before recovery. I also had a set of one piece Nagari wheels on my Toyota Crown all those years ago but the porous nature was a pain with tyres continually going flat until tubes added to tubeless tyres..
In 1989 when we attended the National meeting in Perth, I thought I would be 'play safe' and fit tubes to my Nagari wheels, I remember having about 6 punctures between Bendigo and Adelaide, probably because the young tyre fitter had inadvertaly included grains of sand between the tubes and the tyres. We only had one more flat on the return journey after trying to clean as much of the sand out. On returning home I quickly ditched the tubes.
PeterG
Now sold.
Wondering what happend to a red Mark VII Bolwell sold in approximately 1971 - NSW rego number EPP 840.
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