This bloke is amazing.

Yes I'm talking about Peter Mac. With the 2 white Mk.7s set aside, it's time for the red one and he doesn't muck around. This car, incidentally, was owned once before by Pete in another life. Anyway, the chassis is quickly restored, front and rear ends restored and the body goes on.

Both doors with their Nagari hinges seem to be working OK. Now it's time to fit the windscreen. But it doesn't quite fit.

Easily fixed, just extend the A-pillar a bit.

Gawd, it'll be ready for Easter at this rate.

Christmas greetings from our Nagari friend in Spain.

Ramon and the Porsches and the rest of the collection still going strong. No mention of the Bolwell though.

Never ending story.

The carbon tonneau.

I've been waiting for years for him to run out of ideas so he can get back to his Nagari.. Can't see that happening.

Just remind me.

What are these tail lights again?

It takes all kinds.

Custom boot extension.

Can't wait to see this one in the flesh.

Terry Hulm's Nagari.

Takes you back.

Good taste in cars, Lemonheads.

There's only one way to improve on that.

That's going for it!

Impressive.

That should squeeze into a Mk.7 I reckon.

Kapunda - week 108

Kapunda Christmas street parade.

Transformation.

Sydney's Phil Walmsley after having at least a couple of Bollies that just didn't quite get to the final stage of driving on the road has been busy on his latest one swapped to him when Dave discovered that he had his (Dave's) original Mk.7 and passionately wanted it back.

Have a look how the seats have turned out. Much nicer (in my opinion) than the 70s velour.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM BOLLYBLOG.

The Currie connection.

Hot on the heels of the famous Dick Murphy Mk.7 is the Holden of JIM CURRIE.

Favourite 3-wheelers No.57

Built by Uni students in Perth WA.

ASP for sale.

1969 ASP Clubman

Corolla 4K motor. Very original car. Chassis No 2.

Built for Rob Butcher. Historic $90.00 per annum Rego.

Only selling to buy another ASP.  $22,000. RPM-444

Phone Peter Smeets 8278 6212

 The car above, ran at the first A.I.R. meeting and set a clubman lap record and Is still fitted dry-sumped Corolla 4K motor. It was a factory built race car.

Comes with cycle guard option. It is eligible for and currently registered under the Historic Rego scheme......$90.00 per annum.

It would be eligible for historic racing too. Comes with some spares. 5 speed gearbox, head.

More progress on Ikara 1

Just take a look.

For all those people being clever about Bolwell designing ugly cars on the Aussie Independents page, check out this Marcos.

Here's another one.

Around the world.

Beven's post of this photo of B8/30 on facebook has reverberated across the globe.

It's appearing on pages in Europe and North America as a discovery that people didn't know about  and prompted Leo Kusters to drag out this picture of his activities in the Youngtimers events many years ago.

More people around the world are just that much more informed about a world class sports car.

So THESE are weld wheels.

Kapunda - week 107

The Governor came to visit.

I just wonder..........

................what all those Simmons wheels would be worth.

Shirts.

If you thought those WA shirts with all the Bolwell models down the back was a bit over the top, take a look at what the Z guys wear,

In SA on the same weekend.

This Brabham at the end of the Adelaide Rally on Rundle Road.

And this one breaking the lap record at the Tailem Bend West circuit.

OMG.

For a second I thought it was a Nagari coupe.

I could afford that.

Elfin book.

An unrepeatable story demands an unrepeatable book. So, it is fitting that – on the 60th anniversary of the company’s foundation – a very special new work is published, solely dedicated to the fascinating history of Elfin Sports Cars.

Elfin: The Spirit of Speed is a book on an epic scale. At over 700 pages and of imposing proportions, featuring hundreds of black and white and colour photographs, it is published in grand style, with the very finest quality stock and production values.

Four years in the making, exhaustive research has uncovered countless hitherto unknown facts about the marque. The author, David Dowsey, has conducted over 50 interviews with the individuals who know the history firsthand. Hundreds of high quality photographs – many previously unpublished – bring the story to life. Almost every model and variant has been professionally photographed, making Elfin: The Spirit of Speed worthy of museum-piece status.

Elfin: The Spirit of Speed is a comprehensive catalogue of every Elfin model produced by the company under all ownerships: Garrie Cooper, Don Elliott, Murray Richards, Bill Hemming/Nick Kovatch and Tom Walkinshaw.

Over the course of its incredible 704 pages, every model and all variants are described in accurate detail and are bolstered by specification tables and racing histories. Period and specially commissioned contemporary photographs add depth to the stories.

Many of the surviving Elfin employees that constructed the cars; the drivers who campaigned them with so much success; and the brave individuals who have owned the company over the years contributed to the book through revealing interviews that detail the aspirations and disappointments, the rivalries and jealousies, and the comradeship and can-do attitude that make the story of Elfin Sports Cars one of the most fascinating in the history of motorsport.

Elfin: The Spirit of Speed – The Editions

Elfin: The Spirit of Speed is available in three editions, each of the highest quality, but positioned at different price points to suit most budgets: The Standard Edition is for the fans; the Limited Edition has been designed for Elfin owners looking to personalise their book and connect it with their ownership experience; while the Ultimate Edition is for the Elfin aficionado who wants something that money generally can’t buy: a genuine connection with the marque and the car they own or may have owned. All books are 704 pages.

Standard Edition: An initial run of 1000 copies will be printed; hardbound with French-fold dust jacket and featuring a ribbon bookmark with special card marker. RRP $195.

Limited Edition: A run of 350 copies only will be printed with the following special treatments: Special cloth binding, embossed brushed aluminium-look slipcase, ribbon bookmark with special card marker, author’s signature and individually handwritten Limited Edition series number. Limited Edition books are available to special order only and will be issued complete with a replica Elfin chassis plate attached to the book’s front cover (strictly one book per frame number, never to be duplicated). The Limited Edition is to be offered exclusively in the first instance to the current owner of the allocated frame number (until 31 December 2019). RRP $425.

Ultimate Edition: A limited run of up to five books only to be printed, produced strictly to order. All are signed by the author and hand numbered, with special leather binding featuring the racing number and roundel of the purchaser’s choice. These very special books will be presented in a Mike Simcoe-designed aluminium display case made from a genuine historic Elfin body panel, from a crashed or repaired car, complete with the appropriate age and usage patina, and fixed with a replica Elfin chassis plate stamped with the purchaser’s choice of frame number (strictly one only for any frame number, never to be duplicated) and a selection of genuine bodybuilding tools, used by Garrie Cooper and John Webb at the Elfin Works in the making of Elfin’s aluminium-bodied cars. A double-page photo of the purchaser’s Elfin can be included inside the front of the book on request. RRP $2750.

$2750? Maybe I'll get two.