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« Reply #30 on: January 28, 2015, 09:54:25 am »

I will have a look later and see what I can find.

Great looking car, I also know a great place for fish tacos in San Diego, lmk.  Cool
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Hi Mike, Sounds good. Back in1997/8 if I remember correctly we had a little friendly rivalry to see who could run the number first  Wink Will let you know when I'm over next.
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« Reply #31 on: January 28, 2015, 19:41:44 pm »

The interior of this car is what really impressed me when I first saw it years ago in one of the major magazines. If anyone has interior pics of this car to post, that would be great. Very cool car!  Wink

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check here maxx old blog with lot of picture of the car
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« Reply #32 on: January 28, 2015, 20:37:32 pm »

Came across this years ago
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« Reply #33 on: February 10, 2015, 08:34:52 am »

Came across this years ago

Where is this? Looks a bit like chimay?
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« Reply #34 on: February 10, 2015, 09:11:09 am »

It was a Motorsport/events park that B Burrows etc put together years ago i believe , didnt last long if i mind right.
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« Reply #35 on: February 10, 2015, 10:25:34 am »

yeah they moved VW action there.  I also remember a 911 going against the Goss car down that strip.  It was 1/8th mile
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« Reply #36 on: February 19, 2015, 06:16:03 am »

thanks Jim. it is a blast to drive,and i love it's history. i have been thinking about tweaking some JGE torkers to make them look like AR mags as they really suit the car...


one of my favorite shots
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« Reply #37 on: February 19, 2015, 09:16:51 am »

That car was in a summer edition of Volksworld in 1997.
It blew me away, together with Greg Brinton's black'67 from same issue.
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« Reply #38 on: February 19, 2015, 16:27:16 pm »

I have just come across this proof picture that a book called Custom Cars used. I have just found a few pictures of the car. Some black and white. I think they used too much matting spray.
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« Reply #39 on: February 19, 2015, 16:53:24 pm »

A few more I have found. The originals for Volksworld.
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« Reply #40 on: February 19, 2015, 17:02:15 pm »

I changed things on the car many times but this was the last and favourite. Also my favourite picture.
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« Reply #41 on: February 19, 2015, 17:22:11 pm »

And that header and muffler is now on my Oval Grin
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« Reply #42 on: February 19, 2015, 17:40:56 pm »

One of the most wicked cal lookers ever built.
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« Reply #43 on: February 19, 2015, 23:56:05 pm »

A few more I have found. The originals for Volksworld.

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« Reply #44 on: February 20, 2015, 13:41:18 pm »

I remember doing some work on the motor (after Bernie sold the car) after fixing a sump incident.  Running it up it had flames spitting out the muffler.  It was a real animal!
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« Reply #45 on: February 20, 2015, 15:26:28 pm »

I remember doing some work on the motor (after Bernie sold the car) after fixing a sump incident.  Running it up it had flames spitting out the muffler.  It was a real animal!

Hi Phil,

You got me thinking now  Grin Now correct me if I'm wrong people but when Bernie still owned the car it was a very high compression motor ( for a street car ) then Bernie sold it to a guy ( was it a Steve ? ) who found the motor to lairy for him to be comfortable with and he took it to Peter at Cogbox who suggested lowering the CR right back down to 9.5 / 10:1 ?  and the car was nowhere near as fast on the track as it used to be when Bernie had it ?  Then Max bought if from " Steve " and pretty sure had Pete at Funkenblitz strip the motor down completely and replace any worn parts and get the CR back up to a decent measure and under Max the Dark Lord was resurrected and pretty quick once again down the quarter mile  Grin  Least that's what I heard......
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« Reply #46 on: February 20, 2015, 15:32:49 pm »

I remember doing some work on the motor (after Bernie sold the car) after fixing a sump incident.  Running it up it had flames spitting out the muffler.  It was a real animal!

Hi Phil,

You got me thinking now  Grin Now correct me if I'm wrong people but when Bernie still owned the car it was a very high compression motor ( for a street car ) then Bernie sold it to a guy ( was it a Steve ? ) who found the motor to lairy for him to be comfortable with and he took it to Peter at Cogbox who suggested lowering the CR right back down to 9.5 / 10:1 ?  and the car was nowhere near as fast on the track as it used to be when Bernie had it ?  Then Max bought if from " Steve " and pretty sure had Pete at Funkenblitz strip the motor down completely and replace any worn parts and get the CR back up to a decent measure and under Max the Dark Lord was resurrected and pretty quick once again down the quarter mile  Grin  Least that's what I heard......
Hi Shane
You're right apart from the name. It did have a healthy compression when I owned but I drove it to Belgium for a meeting. It ran a best of 11.8 and then lost a couple of seconds when a guy called Michael James bought it from me. Also he did not buy the original American racing wheels as they were sold to a guy in the States.
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« Reply #47 on: February 20, 2015, 17:05:35 pm »

It's one of my all time favourite lookers too.  Everything about it was right, nothing to be added or taken away. The interior in particular was a beauty, really nice quality and fitment.  Didn't mind it when it was prawn pink too.
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« Reply #48 on: February 20, 2015, 22:04:50 pm »

Mark James, not Michael.  He also owned the lowlight Ghia that Ivan had previously (the one that Brian Burrows raced for a couple of seasons and now belongs to one of Ian Clarkes friends), and I'm pretty sure he also had that really nice Zenith Blue US-spec 67 for a while too. Guy has some good taste in cars!
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« Reply #49 on: February 20, 2015, 22:15:36 pm »

that's right. Michael  James  was a customer from around that time. Always got it wrong😃
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« Reply #50 on: February 20, 2015, 22:55:28 pm »

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« Reply #51 on: February 20, 2015, 23:32:58 pm »

Was this the car max hit the sump off getting onto the ferry after bug in one year ?



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« Reply #52 on: February 21, 2015, 06:33:19 am »

A few more I have found. The originals for Volksworld.

How I remember the car best, with BRMs and the 181 fan shroud. Landmark car.
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« Reply #53 on: March 05, 2015, 05:47:46 am »

Mark James, not Michael.  He also owned the lowlight Ghia that Ivan had previously (the one that Brian Burrows raced for a couple of seasons and now belongs to one of Ian Clarkes friends), and I'm pretty sure he also had that really nice Zenith Blue US-spec 67 for a while too. Guy has some good taste in cars!

Neil the zenith Blue 67 was built by my brother and debut at the 98 volksworld show we are from the same town as Mark before he moved aboard. I took some pictures of both cars outside at MJ's not long after Mark bought the oval off Bernie.







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« Reply #54 on: March 06, 2015, 13:19:21 pm »

This is one of my favourite cars ever...
it had a great influence on me during the build of my 59


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« Reply #55 on: March 08, 2015, 13:38:16 pm »

This is one of my favourite cars ever...
it had a great influence on me during the build of my 59
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That's very visible...cool bug you have... !  Wink
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