Tuscan V8 Widebody

Tuscan V8 Widebody

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oliverb205

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705 posts

233 months

Sunday 17th January 2016
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I posted this copy of an original press photo of the Tuscan wide body on the facebook page and it got quite a lot of interest. It appeared in the November issue of Vintage Roadcar magazine, they hope to do a feature on these rare beasts in the future. It got such a response that I thought it deserved it's own thread, so let's see how many photos of these cars we can come up with, and how much information there is.



Oliver.

oliverb205

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705 posts

233 months

Sunday 17th January 2016
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This car was Gerry Sagerman's original demonstrator, and was fitted with a Ford 302cu engine from new. I took these at "Out of the Woodwork", Indianapolis Motor Speedway in September 1997.





Oliver.

Terminator

2,421 posts

291 months

Sunday 17th January 2016
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oliverb205 said:
so let's see how many photos of these cars we can come up with.....
Oliver.
The only photo I have is the one of the 1971 Motor Show car, but PH Towers wouldn't approve of the bonnet 'mascot' hehe

Slow M

2,789 posts

213 months

Monday 18th January 2016
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Richard Danville sent me one that's been reproduced, in B&W, of the Noskowitz car, from up high. I will have to convert it, from PDF, when I get a chance.








There's also a gent, who's been helping to work on a yellow one, and a white one, somewhere in the Northeastern US, who sent me some pictures, but I'll be damned, I can't find 'em.

Best regards,
Bernard.

PS I have no idea what's wrong with my hot linking skills, but the images inserted, in that way, are not previewing, for me.

Edited by Slow M on Monday 18th January 06:34

GPW41

150 posts

150 months

Monday 18th January 2016
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There were a few photos on Adrian@ Facebook page a few months ago of one he had in....

Edited by GPW41 on Monday 18th January 08:59

GTRene

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231 months

Monday 18th January 2016
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oliverb205

Original Poster:

705 posts

233 months

Monday 18th January 2016
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Further to Bernard's posting above, here is the article on the Robert Nosowicz car, from "Hot Car" magazine November 1981.









Hope it comes out OK.

Oliver.

oliverb205

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705 posts

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Thursday 21st January 2016
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Does anyone know anything about this one, which turned up at Millennium Mania at Stanford Hall in August 2000? It had come over from Norway, hopefully the sheet that was in the window is readable here.

Oliver.

Slow M

2,789 posts

213 months

Wednesday 27th January 2016
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Paul Guinn, who formerly owned MAL 017, is currently part owner of, and working on MAL 019, which he is building with a Holman & Moody Boss 302. Let's all invest in underwear futures.

Photo credit: Ryan Olivera








































Best regards,
Bernard.

GTRene

17,788 posts

231 months

Wednesday 27th January 2016
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lovely, by the way, holman and moody, were they not also into the GT40 ?
ah, yes.

http://www.holmanmoody.com/history.html

Slow M

2,789 posts

213 months

Wednesday 27th January 2016
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GT40s were only the tip of the iceberg, for Holman and Moody. They also ran successful NASCAR and Trans Am efforts. As I understand, they were much like forward's unofficial racing team, receiving a great deal of factory support.

Best regards,
Bernard.

Andrew Gray

4,969 posts

156 months

Wednesday 27th January 2016
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Slow M said:
Paul Guinn, who formerly owned MAL 017, is currently part owner of, and working on MAL 019, which he is building with a Holman & Moody Boss 302. Let's all invest in underwear futures.

Photo credit: Ryan Olivera








































Best regards,
Bernard.
Yes car is actually owned by Guy Dirkin and Paul is doing the work.
I presume you had permission to share the picture Bernard
Andrew

anonymous-user

61 months

Wednesday 27th January 2016
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Andrew Gray said:
Yes car is actually owned by Guy Dirkin and Paul is doing the work.
I presume you had permission to share the picture Bernard
Andrew
PMSL 🙂

Erich Stahler

2,878 posts

277 months

Saturday 27th February 2016
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So was the Tuscan V8 Widebody ever raced internationally in period?

oliverb205

Original Poster:

705 posts

233 months

Saturday 27th February 2016
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Not as far as I know. One or two may have done a few club events in the USA, but I doubt internationally.

Oliver.

USTVRDUDE

116 posts

284 months

Monday 25th April 2016
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I am slow to the party.. I know.. sleep But I do find it interesting that When the ex-Sagerman demostrator is pictured folks rarely note that it had a BOSS 302 installed which had significantly more power than the standard 302! (Not a slight on you Oliver... I see it happen a lot)
Also, I know it would be of interest, but somewhere along the line I acquired a longish video of one of the Wide Bodies for sale in probably the Late 70's early 80's where the owner walks around the car, filming all its aspects, then takes it on a test drive. Probably 10 mins long or more. (It is interesting that its so old you can hear the tapes scrolling thru the recorder while he was filming) I need to get it put to disc or the like and on YouTube or the like.

USTVRDUDE

116 posts

284 months

Monday 25th April 2016
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Oh yes, I did find at one time one of the WideBodies was "Autocrossed"at the SCCA Solo2 Nationals I believe in the early 80's. (Auto cross in the USA would be like an Auto test in the UK?, Random pylon lined courses that you race against the clock and hitting a pylon adds a time penalty.

oliverb205

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705 posts

233 months

Monday 25th April 2016
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Thanks for that Bill, I must admit that over 18 years after I took the photos of the ex Sagerman car at Woodwork it is hard to remember the full spec! Plus as a Limey I don't know the full details of all the Yankee V8s, so would rather leave an ambiguous detail in rather than get something wrong. It was a lovely car (presumably still is), but it is a shame that Al trailered it there and we never got the chance to see it in full tarmac ripping mode...

Oliver.