Saturday, November 24, 2018
Col's 7.
An interesting Mk.7 in Queensland was this one of Col Cuthbert's.
It had the later Crown tail lights just like Pete S's which I reckon really suit the 7s and a Fibrecar hatch. It also features a Nagari nose and Nagari rims but with the Holden bolt pattern. However, I think its crowning glory (excuse the pun) are the one piece side glasses that wound all the way down (no quarter vents) which eclipsed Alan and John's Nagari examples by a number of years. Col had the car from new and still had it at the turn of the century. I wonder where it is now. Jason has been around the Queensland Bolwell scene for yonks. Do you know it, Jason?
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John. I took those pics many years ago. Some where on a HDD/USB stick I have some others of that car taken at the same time. I can't remember what year exactly but I think it would have been mid 1990s. I also seem to remember sometime later hearing that Col got sick or possibly passed away. Not 100% sure on that and I hope I am wrong.
regards
peter m
The car is owned by a Peter Parnell.
You can read about it here:
mk7bolwell.blogspot.com
It has a rotary and there is a link to a youtube video of it running. The blog hasn't been updated for a few years, so I don't know any more.
Typically I have been meaning to contact Peter, but haven't got around to it.
Simon
1993 it was Pete. Looking forward to you finding those other photos. Thanks for the later info Simon.
As it's turned out, the car did not progress from when those photos were taken by Pete in 1993 until Col died from that agressive cancer. Now Peter P has done a lot of work on it but What's taken place since 2015 is not known. Maybe Jason can find out.
John. I'll have a think about where they might be. I'm not even sure how many I have.
peter
I hope Peter Parnell is/has fitted an aircon to his Mk7. I know from my own (that only had a pretty much std 186S in it) how hot it got in the tunnel when I had the exhaust pipe mounted above and off to the side of the gearbox. Hot ebough that the gear lever got that hot that you couldn't hold the metal of the stick. Hot enough that the polystyrene foam I had sitting in the removable stainless steel infill panel in the top of the chassis (under the centre console) actually melted. Eventually I had to rerun the pipe under the chassis which reduced the ground clearance a bit but also brought the cabin temps down so that it was bearable although it was still hot. In hindsight I should have fitted some removable panels behind the engine to block of the tunnel so that the hot air from the radiator and from the engine didnt go directly down the tunnel.
peter
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