Chronicles of Alan : My Friend Brian O. #3

One day Brian calls me, very excited.

" Alan , I have found a crashed Lamborghini Miura S lying at a Garage - Filling Station in Krugersdorp ! Can you give me a lift?"

I did not need any encouragement, collected him , and off we go!

When you are always working on cars , you often have yours not running as you are doing further mods to it!

There were very few of these in South Africa, some unnamed idiot , had responded to his Girlfriends, " May I drive it Darling?" and straight into the side of an overpass on the Johannesburg-Pretoria Highway she went!

I can only trust she became an ex-Girlfriend but who can explain how a fellow will react to the wiles of a Woman?

Brian purchased the Car for a paltry R13,500, The Garage owner gave me a part for my Hot Beetle I had been looking for, and we arranged to have it towed to his house in Discovery ( next to Florida where I stayed)

The Bonnet and lights were wrecked and the cost of importing a Front End for it was prohibitive.

Brian found a Doctor in Pretoria who had one , and the first thing he had done was pulled a mould of all the sections.

From this we were able to make a Fibreglass Bonnet ( original was aluminium as I recall). Porsche 928 Headlamps were the same sort of tilt up type and were very close to the originals.

Brian resprayed the car Red of course? , it looked great, sounded better, and did 65mph in first Gear!

Not long and Brian was going on about the Car not being original ( fibreglass ) and wanted to cut the Body off and make it into a superfast Beetle.

Like me a big VW fan, anyhow , I dissuaded him and he sold it to a car collector for about R45,000 , a steal!

Not a year went by and someone contacted him from Europe and offered him a Half Million Rand , sight unseen!

Quite naturally, this caused a somewhat depressed mood to come on him, for a while.

Hint for the next post on Brian , look back at the Gale Banks motor mods I posted in the first one on Brian.

But there is lots more to come!