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Classic Cars in
Rhodesia
Make |
Tojeiro-Bristol |
History |
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Owned by Eric Glasby of Bulawayo
having been acquired second hand in
the Apparently the car did not handle Eric
never achieved good results with it in spite of it
being a car with one of only 6 very special heads
developed for Le Mans on the Bristol engine. U.K.
Owned in 1961 by Tom Kenyon, raced at Kumalo. Sold
to a Mr. Nurse in Florida, Johannesburg who raced
the car extensively but not with earth shattering
results . When Nurse passed away in the 70 s the
car passed on to an engineer with the name of
Bruce who ran a small engineering works next to
the Kyalami Ranch . He stripped the car to rebuilt
it and found that there was a problem with the De
Dion back axle , it was bent ,when speaking to
Eric Glasby about it Eric remembered that when the
car was offloaded in Durban docks the car was
dropped onto the one rear wheel from about a meter
high but they did not see any damage at the time
and did nothing about it . This then explained the
poor handling of the car . Bruce started
rebuilding the car but developed cancer and was
forced to sell the car before completing the
rebuild . He sold it to Jolyon Simpson in the late
70s early 80s . The car stood as was in Jolyons
collection for a long time before he apparently
had a good offer for this special Bristol engine
which he sold . He then got hold of a D type
Jaguar head and built up a Jaguar engine. The car
later returned to the UK. Also owned by V. Fear at
some stage.
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Model |
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Chassis No. |
TAD 3/55
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Engine No. |
BS4/???, now fitted with a Jaguar engine
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Coachbuilder |
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Body Style |
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Colours |
Yellow with black stripe down middle |
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Registration
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RB-4917/SRH, 3 KMG
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References |
Pic Ivan Glasby via Mike
Falconer |
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