Buchanan bodied drag car.

This is a page from the Feb. 1968 edition of Auto Sportsman.
It's Victorian, Barry Ferrari's car. It had a Holden grey and a Singer 4-speed. Where's this one now?

Some overseas Nagari links.

1. Over the Bass Straight. Targa Wrest Point 2010 to be exact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFDv-m716qk
2. Over the Pacific. San Diego to be even more exact.

http://shirazshiraz.blogspot.com/2010/02/nagari-visits-mornington-peninsula.html

Sounds like Mahatma Coat's wife.

Mark 7 blinker repeaters

That's the trouble with shiny cars, if you're not careful you can end up taking a picture of yourself, and I'm not very careful.

This is the ex-Lewis Hemi-6 powered Mark 7 of Bryan B's, all kitted up with SA rego etc. and about to go home to Adelaide. But what I wanted to show you were these lights. They were designed to go on that little raised up bit on Mark 7s and were from 1966 Toyota Crowns. As it turns out, they were also on some old Hilux utes. Anyway, these days they are like hens' teeth, no-one could find them anywhere. No-one that is, except Simon Wells, who has discovered a mob in Bangkok that are making them and selling them for $15 a pair plus $12 postage. How's that!This is the amount of rubber (295s) that is put to the road. Looks good and fills the flares quite nicely. It's about to get new rear tyres and different tail lights. The custom fuel tank looks good too. Keep an eye out for it on the Peter Lehmann run on Sunday.

Only at Bathurst

Where else would you find a gum tree falling on the track in the middle of a 12-hour race?This was at Forest Elbow. The race was won by the Gary Holt/Paul Morris/John Bowe BMW 335i. All of those Evos entered but the best they could do was 2nd.

The Matt Jenkins Mark 7

Matt's chassis is back in the Racecraft workshop. Look at the exhaust they are making for it.

A couple of nice Nagaris

Jeff Rowse sent me some Nagari photos from Queensland so I'm sharing them. The first car is the Fibrecar sports he used to have which is now owned by Jason Weber and the Nagari coupe in its Targa Tasmania livery is the one Peter Ingram-Jones used to have which is now owned by Peter Schmidt.

SR6 HISTORIC CAR CERTIFICATE OF DESCRIPTION

For those interested here is the Mark 6's certificate which accompanies its Group Q log book. It's a laminated folder of four pages but I think it comes out OK.

A Virgin Racecar

Here it is, the brand new Formula 1 Virgin VR-01 Cosworth, all ready for its debut.Drivers are Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi. (ref - VirginRacing.com).

DIY Mark 4

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Nganti

Tony Briton took this photo of Bernie on the grid at AIR back in the 80s. I dragged it out more for the Metro Oil car on the next row. The other day I mentioned Allan Hanns driving for John Scotcher. Well, this was the car, the Nganti. Sounds a bit like Nagari. It had a 2 litre Ford in it, one of those single OHC units. The chassis was big and strong and heavy and would have easily accomodated a V8. I think the body was a Boral. There's still a Boral Ford V8 kicking around but I'm not sure what happened to the Nganti. This was about the time that ProdSports disappeared up its own exhaust pipe and everybody went on to other things. Bernie went radical with the Nagari and Allan went on to the Nganti. Smeetsy used to drive it before that. It's funny how the same old names keep cropping up. The article in Custom Kit Car on MGCC's Neville Daniel's Buchanan MG shows that Neville bought it from John Scotcher who bought it from Peter Smeets.

Another Buchanan turns up.

Here's another Buchanan. It belongs to David Homburg in Victoria. He was wondering if, between us, we might be able to trace the history of one of his (he has 2, "one Hard Top and one with no roof"). He is hoping that there may be someone who may have some old photos of his hardtop from its heyday.

He bought the car from a young bloke from Geelong about 2 years ago. He traced the previous owner who told him that he had bought the car at a clearing sale at Rockbank many years ago. He was going to drive it but it sat out in the weather too long and the plywood floors rotted out of it. "He then sold it to the young bloke I bought it off and he butchered it by trying to fit a V8 and narrowed rear end. He also tried to return the headlights to their original position and butchered that too! As far as I am aware it has always been a Victorian car.

It runs a standard width EJ Holden suspension (hence the flares). It has a Holden Grey motor and a Vic. Police number stamped in the chassis rail (if you need these I can give them to you later). I tried to trace it through Vic Roads but they have destroyed all information prior to 1971. I have been in touch with Roo and have had it on the VHRR website but to no avail. It was painted Purr Pell, a purple Torana colour of the early '70's. Maybe this might jog someone's memory as this would have been a stand out car in its day."

Well, I hope someone recognises it and lets us know some of its history as well. You can do this through the comments bit or email me at vidstud@gmail.com and I can pass David's address on.

A Spanish dash panel

The other day I showed you some work being done on the dash bit, away from the body. That guy is Vicente and he looks after the upholstery needs. He was really rapt to see himself on a blog from the other side of the world. Here he is finishing off the fitting of the crash padding.

It looks really smart now that it's all fitted up. It'll soon be time for the windscreen to go in.

This is how it looked only a few days ago.