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  • #16
    Originally posted by 338 View Post
    Well in case anyone is wondering the going price for Nagari is about $60k with a couple for sale. In my opinion probably still the best looking car we ever made in Australia. Plus you could just about service everything on it with a flathead screwdriver and a shifter!
    Seems a low price considering that Holdens and Fords of the same era are fetching those sorts of dollars. If it was an American niche build sold in America they would be selling for 5 or 10 times the dollars.

    I think the modern way of selecting a car has buried things like the Nagari and kept them low priced. I love the ability to search for exactly what I want on carsales but it's not the same as flicking through the classifieds in the back of a magazine.

    Can't imagine 200mph on a bike ever being anything other a huge rush mixed with huge dose of fear and alertness
    Fear and alertness combine to produce laughing maniacally in the helmet because you know it's insane.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Andy View Post
      ...sigh...

      Phil Irving - Project Engineer
      Frank Hallam - Chief Engineer.

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      Thanks for the info Andy.

      Jack's book shows both of them contributed heavily (as you would expect).

      Not a bad pit crew... evidently they both did that for him as well sometimes.

      Love the Vinnies as well - just replace that dreadful brass swingarm bush with a stainless one and the handling is stable for years. A lucky friend of mine brought three of them out from England in the early 1960's - only the Rapide had done 6,000 miles (his daily drive in Armadale W.A.), the others (a Black Knight and a Black Shadow) were both under 100 miles and stripped down. He even had the proper aero sidecar for the slippery one.

      The bastard refused to sell them to me (and about 1,000 others) so I wonder where they are now?

      Good thing to move this "whole mini thread" off topic for car and bike "aficionados" aka nutcases.

      I managed 280Kmh for 196Km (Caiguna to Balladonia in 1981, timed by the servo guys at both ends) on my "aero 11" (DCP Concorde fairing) and laughing maniacally is only exceeded by the concentration level needed. I ran out of revs, and being a shaft drive it is hard to alter the gearing. I really wanted a 6th, 7th and 8th that day.

      TampIt

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      • #18
        Speed, eh....

        OK, here's my "speed demon" moment.

        I took my Fairlane across the strait to Devonport in Tamania. There are some straight stretches of road between that port town and Launceston. Yes, there are in Victoria too, but being out of town in another country...er, state, gives you false impressions.

        Sp I chose my moment and put the hammer down.

        100...110...120...125...126...

        The alertness level rose and rose, and sweat beads started to bloom across my brow. Arms tensed at the wheel...
        Eyes darting between the speedometer, mirrors and fast-approaching road ahead.

        This was not only illegal, but insane.

        127...`128...130! Yes, 130 kilometres per hour.

        That was enough. Pedal off the metal...back to sanity.

        Whew! And, folks, I survived...and I am here, years later, to tell the tale.

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        • #19
          Thanks Lyrebird, read about the 4 and 5 stud difference, and new the Rover was an ex GM design, just wasn't sure of the linage.

          Andy agree on the Bolwell, if it was a half page in used cars it would catch your eye, if you hadn't heard of one you wouldn't know to look. You are right all the older cars are getting big money, made me think when you mentioned your 550kw Walkinshaw, probably worth keeping when you are done driving the family around in it. The next 550kw car you get wouldn't be in the same price bracket or will have 2 tonne of batteries involved. Getting into the irreplaceable bracket now.

          Tamp it, we need to get better quality watches for servo guys! 280km average for 196km on a road with corners is a big claim!

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          • #20
            Not a bad pit crew... evidently they both did that for him as well sometimes.

            ...along with Peter Holinger too. That's a racers dream-team for sure, I can't think of a better qualified crew ever.


            Whew! And, folks, I survived...and I am here, years later, to tell the tale.

            Love it. Gotta know your limits and you can only find them by pushing the barrier.


            I see people everyday who can't judge an apex at 60kmh and go from white-line to white-line 3 or 4 times in the radius. I can only assume they are looking 2 feet in front of the bonnet and reacting to the change in direction every 3 seconds. Those same people are "allowed" to drive at 100 on the freeway.




            Getting into the irreplaceable bracket now.

            I swapped it for a V10 M5 that was pilling up the miles too fast and was about to get expensive. I thought the stock LS3 would be plenty but it as a yawn after the M5 so it only took a week to get the W547 treatment. The last of the Australian assembled V8's and I've never owned a dunnydoor besides, I know my next car will run on tofu.

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            • #21
              Those V10 were epic! They will never build those again. Mate had one and I thought it was fantastic, needed way more revs than you expected for an executive express but then hang on. Another car which will be worth a bomb when we are all driving tofu cars in 20 years time.

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              • #22
                The V10 was epic, 8250rpm shifts and it sounded like a 1980's F1. A track day at Phillip Island and was lapping under 2min in a large 5 seat family car. That thing was on rails, amazing handling and braking and only managed to get ugly once on the track coming out of Siberia when I squeezing more than the track would take. I bought it with low km's and more than doubled that. Future service work would the price of a new car so when someone made an offer it made sense. On fatter pockets we wouldn't sell anything.

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                • #23
                  Ridiculous times for a big family car. I never realised the shifts were that high, real sports car territory. In 30 years time, the same way we all look and say how much for a Phase 3, A9X, SLR500 or even just plain Monaro or Torana, your son will be telling his mates 'yes Dad had a Walkinshaw Director, M5 V10, etc can't believe he let it go for $xxx'. I think we will be even more nostalgic when the internal combustion engine becomes the minority - probably only a generation away - and having one of these feats of engineering will be like keeping a beautiful horse at home. Both were once transport and now moving into the recreational stage.

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                  • #24
                    We have horses at home too, a Clydesdale (Paula's) and a quarter horse (Sarah's) and half a horse (Tiana's). The boys of the household lean more towards horsepower ...but you worked that out already.

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                    • #25
                      It takes a very talented cowboy to get those 500 horses into the stall!


                      Java "*zoom*zoom*zoom*" phile
                      Toys! I must have new toys!!!

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                      • #26
                        I am guessing you don't live on a 600 m2 lot in the middle of Geelong Andy?

                        A friend of mine with two horses just bought herself a Polaris and a .... pooper scooper for horse crap. Reckons it is the best thing she has ever bought in her life, says horses have some sort of magic power to convert one cubic metre of feed in to two cubic metres out...

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                        • #27
                          Nah, we live 32km from work (halfway to Ballarat) on 10 acres, we grow rocks and horse poo. No public transport (2 buses a day) so a car is still a must have but I can get all the way to work with only 1 traffic light and most of it at 100kmh cruise control. The drive is nice as long as the roos stay in the bush.

                          We don't have a poo vacuum but I will admit to looking seriously at a small street sweeper on Grays once, I recon Sarah could make a good living driving that around people's paddocks then selling the manure to the garden supplies. Of course, if we put a supercharger on it she would get it done faster.

                          It takes a very talented cowboy to get those 500 horses into the stall!
                          Don't let the girls see that math or they WILL try and match us.

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                          • #28
                            Then they will need that sweeper, along with a fire hose!


                            Java " " phile
                            Toys! I must have new toys!!!

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