Sunday, November 30, 2014
Aussie one-off.
On Pickles SA salvage online auction with a bit over 3 days to run is this little beauty.
Keen observers in the UK have asked me about its history. Well I don't know much at all but have told them what I do, namely that it came to South Australia in the 60s from Victoria where it was built, presumably by someone by the name of Sheppard. During the ownership of keen Jaguar enthusiast, Grant Murdoch, it was raced a couple of times and it still has its CAMS log book with it. The back half is aluminium, the front is fibreglass and the roof is steel (from a Hudson Wasp). Does anybody out there know any more history, particularly from its time in Victoria? Might be time to flick through the old SCWs.
Was this BRG in the early 1970's? When I went to Peter De Mac's place in Pooraka to source more information on the Buchanan Pontiac I think he had this car in his shed and was working on it. Col
ReplyDeleteThe replies on the Jaguar blog were so off the mark makes you wonder the intelligence of those people. Their ignorance of the volume and quality of specials built in Australia in the 1950's and the bespoke motoring industry here in the same time frames is amazing. One guy suggests Nagaris were produced with Jag motors - doh! Oh and the handful of Bolwells built every year. The car for sale is well built for the late 1950's early 60's era - an alloy main body section for a start. Be interesting to find its original black plate Victorian registration number. That special steering wheel looks like a Maxrob after market wheel from the 70's. I am sure it had a wood rim wheel when I looked at it in 1972. Col
ReplyDeleteYes, it was originally green.
ReplyDeleteit looks a bit like the Ward Healey special in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteSimon
It does a bit.
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