Yards And Yarns

[AMCO72]

So, Roger, what did you think of the article ? I just have to wonder how the car has been elevated to cult status with such a short time on the track and so little success. Maybe it was like the V16 BRM......famous for its sound but not much else. Certainly the right guy owns it now and it would be nice to see and hear it doing its stuff on a track somewhere.

[Roger Dowding]

So, Roger, what did you think of the article ? I just have to wonder how the car has been elevated to cult status with such a short time on the track and so little success. Maybe it was like the V16 BRM......famous for its sound but not much else. Certainly the right guy owns it now and it would be nice to see and hear it doing its stuff on a track somewhere.

AMC072 .. Yes liked the article, written by Allan Dick .. who is now " 80 " and still full of strong opinions ..

Would like to see the car as it was very different for the time - a Prince Four -lengthened by about 4 - 6 inches to take the six - sounds just the Austin Healey going from 100 [4 ] to 100 -Six

Had an interest in the cars as back in the late 80's [ maybe early 90's ] a guy ** I knew had another one - never saw the car but he had interior panels and parts from the car in his garage - we had gone out for dinner as we knew his " girlfriend " at the time and she invited us, well, not only saw the parts but also had a ride in his Porsche 911, later - after dinner we watched Videos on a machine that had those long cables and the "controller " - before it was all Wi-Fi or cordless .. Allan mentions three cars in NZ, so assume the guy, [ Mike Jeromanivic # excuse the spelling ] had one of them..

A bit like the Morrari, never a real winner but was great to watch .. There is a post on the trading part of facebook at the moment with my old photo of the " Morrari "- this one ;

and the price $99,999 - the guy actually is just asking a question about the wheels - originally the Borrani Wires - ex the Ferrari and later -
- widened and strengthened steel wheels -as they did with the Lycoming too !!

[AMCO72]

Somebody, somewhere said that the Morrari still had its knock off hubs, with the steel wheels, but it certainly hasn't in your pic.

[Roger Dowding]

AMC072

" Morrari still had its knock off hubs, with the steel wheels, but it certainly hasn't in your pic. "
Some wire wheel hubs bolt on to existing wheel studs - would seem unlikely to have retained them.

I had an Austin Healey on Five Stud Mag wheels [ very unoriginal ] and got bolt on splined wire wheel hubs to fit and ran the car with Wires on the rear and the unoriginal Mags on the front.

Greg Stokes [ TRS member ] - father Mark Stokes, is making a recreation [ Ferrari Chassis too expensive to cut up to make a saloon car these days ] may know - he has been collecting information from TRS and other forums to help with the rebuild.



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