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Old 08-26-2014, 09:25 PM
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5 Kirkhams have arrived at Grand Tourer Restorations.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Grand...76683642413483
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Details please.........
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It makes you wonder how many Kirkhams could have been sold in this country if they had a long term distributor with exclusive rights to the product.

Who will be bringing them in next?

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How did you learn about this Darryl?
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Old 08-27-2014, 12:57 AM
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Good to see Neil in those photos. His TV show last year where he discussed his cancer diagnosis and filmed his medical visits was pretty confronting.
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Old 08-27-2014, 02:09 AM
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There's at least one forum member's car there; KMP762 for "MrWhite"
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Are AP still an agent? Still in the banner above, but no mention on their site?
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I see a slab side in there. Is that the one 64 Galaxie is waiting on?
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Are AP still an agent?
We are no longer an agent. 4 of those 5 are ones that we ordered.
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I was in there a few weeks back to buy some POR15 paint and they said they were on the water.

They had some other cool stuff in there when i visited. Dick Johnson's old Greens Tuff Falcon was up on the hoist and I got to have a good look underneath.

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What's the story with the car that is painted?
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We are no longer an agent. 4 of those 5 are ones that we ordered.
Smart move!

Better to concentrate on your own product than try and deal with somebody elses.
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I went in there Thursday to have a look on my way through. The fella I was talking to, said they were not a new agent for Kirkham and that the 'blue' one was a keeper and had plans for a big block with a turbo or supercharger. All the others he thought were big block bound except one. But to be fair he was not 100%.
I can confirm for those who haven't seen these up close, they are very impressive. Having seen the pace example............I am still a little biased to the local product, but if your a purist, the Kirkham is hard to beat.
I missed the 83 Johnson Bathurst Falcon which I was spewing about, it was in Shepparton apparently.

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Looks like the blue one with paint sanded off is to be a SuperSnake replica.
[ame]http://vimeo.com/106244414[/ame]
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I'd still love to find out what happened to that blue car to require repairs to seemingly every panel...
Restoring Dreams is one of my favourite programs. For such a niche show, the photography/editing is first class. Looking forward to it coming back for a new series.
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It looks like some of the repairs have been done with the RHD conversion. They have welded up the roll bar holes on the left hand side.

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Some of the repairs are in such strange areas of the body...
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The blue cobra at grand tourer is a shelby continuation car supplied by Kirkham to its owner a long time ago.It was damaged in a tornado and the owner traded the car for a new Kirkham.Kirkham motorsports repaired the car and converted it to right hand drive after being purchased by grand tourer.
It is being constructed into a super snake.
The car will run a shelby engine company 427 FE engine with twin paxton superchargers.
The major change will be a top loader gearbox instead of automatic.
Watch the grand tourer website and facebook page for progress updates.
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Old 09-21-2014, 01:56 AM
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Tornado! Well that's a unique history for the car..! As much as I'll be watching out for the Cobra builds at Grand Tourer, I'll be hoping like anything that Neil's health stabilises and improves.
[ame=http://vimeo.com/106562345]RESTORING DREAMS TEASER_02 'The Cancer' on Vimeo[/ame]
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