Tristans Fang is the green one with the steel wheels
Check out the link on our website
http://www.miniauto.com.au/uniquemini.html

There was also a red one owned by David Whitehouuse here in Qld. It was full race specs and very quick

Davids is currently in storage as he's working in Dubai at the moment . He very generously gave me somee rear guards and rear spoiler before he went

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We will be at Morwell at some stage in the year and its not that I / we don't like you guys down there but we havent had the time to run down there since I cracked no:3 piston in my Mini on the way there last time .....

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120bhp with 450kg just fun waiting to happen

We were prob. drunk when we set it up last and thought this will be a good idea

I was up in Sydney recently and went to "NOTA" , interesting gentleman to speak too. When I asked him how many cars have been produced, is said over 400. At the time I was picking up a replacement nose cone for John and Ric Scott . Driving home from Syd , with a freshly done nose cone can make you woozy hehehe, ah the fumes! Still, not as nice as jet fuel!

I have a mate who has one, he's fitted a 4 litre all alloy quad cam toyota kluger V8 engine in to it, will be a scary ride.


Doogie

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I won Hay once, here's the pic to prove it..


Hay, it's not about the car, it's not about the venue, it's about the people that come here. Peter Dwyer, Mayor of Hay NSW.

FARK!!

those engines (1UZ) are awesome

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

Is that the new version though Doogie (The F1 from memory) or the mini based one from the early 70's ?

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hee hee,,, now we`re talking my kinda language

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Full history of the Fang in next issue of TME.

The 2.2lt Toyota-engined car that Chris drives (actually 3lt I think from memory) is the newer and somewhat larger Nota F1.

Yes, Nota has built well over 300 cars since they began in 1952, but there were 127 Mini-engined Fangs built, in three models.

Yes, one Fang (and one Marauder) was built with a P76 engine and Chris said it was a real beaut. Unfortunately, that was in about 1974 and then something happened to P76 production (I'm sure that date is siginificant ) and Chris was not able to get the P76 engines anymore.

That was when he started playing with various other engines for the Fang, including Toyota, Suzuki and even Mazda turbo power. The Fang (though a slightly modified design) is still available new with the Jap engines.

And yes, they are road registerable.

Like I said, more info in Issue 17 of TME.

Cheers,
Watto.

Actually the P76 engine lived on a bit longer in Australia as a truck motor (the Leyland Terrier) Leyand was just about to switch from imported blocks to locally cast blocks cast by CAC (Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation) when the P76 was canned but somehow they kept making limited numbers of engines with CAC blocks for the trucks till the late 70s.
I don't know where they assembled them though.

Back in the day,,, when it all went to sh!t,,, We bought (as in my dads business ReadSpeed) brand new complete P76 power units , meant for all 3 types of usages,,, The Terrier Truck (& i think some busses got them too),,, also the Marine industry got them with all the water cooled manifolds etc ,,, & of course to power the mighty Leyland P76 itself

I only have about 12x alloy V8 engines here,,, i`ve sadly sold a few along the way

I`d dearly love a Fang in a P67 powered Fang

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Hi I worked a Nota in the 80's The Marauder had a rear mount 351 Clevland. kombi box, ? transfer case and 4WD it was test driven in that form it had cortina windscreen and frame including doors and pillars laid back for more winscreen rake Regards Daren

I think I went to the Nota "factory in 1965 or 1966. I think they tuned a set of twin carbies on a Morris Major Elite.

Was it a wooden older style of workshop that backed onto the upper reaches of the Parramatta river - west of the weir. ??? Built cars in twos and threes and did general mechanical work ???

Mike

The only one I know of using the P76 V8 was the Leyland Cougar

http://www.chequeredpast.com.au/cougar.htm

[img][img]http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7858/leylandcougar.jpg[/img][/img]

Ric and Jon getting wet and frustrated with Weber issues on the VMCI GOR Tour

[img][img]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1340/p1000364w.jpg[/img][/img]

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Try http://www.notasportscars.com/ for all your nota stuff Daren