OK all you boys and girls! Here is a chance to get BN71WA out of my hands...I am now working in Zambia/ Congo and Saudi Arabia – its a new game called pick your own trouble spot - so I am in Oz even less. I have decided to push ahead with a sale even if I have to take a bit of a haircut. Looking for $AUD47k, negotiable. I would like it to stay in WA....John Cooke
The engine, whilst rebuilt and with a ¼ cam, is Holden 253 not Ford 302, which is atypical, but a higher torquing motor.
Adjustable Bilstein shocks on the rear; Andy set them pretty tight when we were doing it up; we modified the space frame to accommodate and if a tank ran over this car, the sub frame would still be there! Some more photos attached.
8 comments:
The ID plate is too neat, Bolwell didn't employ jewellers to engrave them!
Not too many plates with QR (4.2 HQ) engine numbers either. Nevertheless the car is extremely well built, the professionalism is evident. And at least it has normal doors now.
Very nice car, attention to detail is quite superb, for me the ID plate is in keeping with the build of the car
How many Nagari replicas evolved out of the original B8/46?
Still a few around that live in the past with original v replicas I notice.
Given this blog thread is tagged ' the Other B8/46' my comment was merely seeking the story behind such a thread headline which may be interesting. Me? Provided they are openly declared as such I am all for replicas as they add to the Bollie gene pool -just look at the success of the Cobra replica industry and the car clubs evolved from there and given the number of "air" cars that have evolved over the years in Mk 4's, Mk7's and Mk8's it would appear that most others agree too. Just as most people shooting barbs on this blog do not hide behind an "anonymous" user name but have the balls to register under their true identity.
Well put, Colin. There is a place for a replica in every auto family, just as there is a place for the re-bodied (or re-shelled) example but it should be declared to be the case.
Art
Oops. sorry everyone. That particular reference was not to imply anything in particular. B8/46 was Barry's old race car. When CAMS shut down the National championship for ProdSports cars there were a few well developed Nagaris that needed another use. John's chassis, for example, formed the basis for a sports sedan, Alllan's car became road registered and Barry dismantled his after trying unsuccessfully to sell the car as a complete racecar. Both the purchaser of the body and the purchaser of the chassis probably quite rightly claimed ownership of the number B8/46. I'm not sure I'd like to enter into any argument over who is morally correct in this incidence.
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