Originally Posted by
prox My friend supposedly had one of the 1300 that John Fitzpatrick drove, i used to go circuit racing with him in the late 80"s as a "help along mechanic". At that time it had a JE Rover V8 engine in it, quite a quick one.
It was always thought to be a Ex Jackie Stewart car, but it came to light to be a 1300 GT from Broadspeed, he wrote to John Fitzpatrick and he wrote back saying how happy he was the car was still about.
They then (my mate and is Father) set about trying to put it back to 1300 speck but i know they came up against issue finding the correct engine for it so settled for Twin cam on Lucas mechanical injection, the car never got finished as my mates father developed dementia and got put in a home.
The car sat for a number of years in the father's leakey concrete garage, then moved to my mates moms house, she sadly passed away, then to top it all off my mate went through a very nasty divorce and his wife was trying to get hold of the car to bring it into the pot that was being divided up (the car legally was my mates Dad) so he was trying to hide it away, i think it got proved it did not belong to my mate so it never was part of the divorce.
Sadly my mates dad passed away and in the end he sold it around 2- 3 years about apparently.
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