1 point for full details of what this car is, who it was built by and when:
Time for a move up...
A home-made Begra MkII fibreglass roadster
Owned and built of almost all used parts by architect Gene Beach car parts dealer Henry Grady in 1961
SAAB-powered & Fiat transmission
Quote from: Amsterdam on June 21, 2010, 04:58:55 PM
A home-made Begra MkII fibreglass roadster
Owned and built of almost all used parts by architect Gene Beach car parts dealer Henry Grady in 1961
SAAB-powered & Fiat transmission
That just about covers it, although understood this car either has or had Ford 105E power.
Will have to check into it..
Both where used so it seems.
Info on Begra's
CAR YEAR OWNER ENGINE RACES
Begra Mk1 1959-60 Jerry Morgan (FL) Fiat 600
Saab 750 5/29/60 - Cocoa (Beach)
6/26/60 - Daytona (Beach)
9/4/60 -Daytona (Morgan #108)
10/9/60 - Kississimee
11/13/60 - Daytona
12/60? - Miami Master's Field (#108)
1/22/61 - Kississimee (#49)
2/61 - Daytona (#48)
1962? Paul Kneeland (NH) Saab 850 10/63 - VIR (#64)
1064? Wesley Glantz (NY) Saab 850 9/64 - Lime Rock (#6)
Begra Mk2
"The Sebring Begra" 1960-61 John Bentley (FL) Saab 750GT
Ford 105E 1961 - 12 Hours of Sebring
(Beach/Grady/Bentley #70)
63 Hugh Kleinpeter (GA)
Ford 105E Nassau Speed Week 1963
64 Philip Cree (FL)
1970's Dave Caracci
Begra Mk3
(3-001) 1961 John Norwood Abarth 750 1962 -Daytona (Beach #55)
1965-69 Bil Mundus (MI) Abarth twin-cam
Phil Roach ? So. California
78 Ed Gaven (CA) Fiat 850 No. California - Vintage
Begra Mk3
(3-002) 1961 George Avent (SC) Abarth 750 4/62 - VIR (Avent #29)
10/62 - VIR (Avent #62)
4/65 - VIR (Avent # 62)
67-? junkyard (NC)
? Harry Puckett (NC)
86 Norris Haynes (NC)
96 Barry LeVan (PA)
Begra Mk3
(3-003) 1962
(kit) Frank Stark (PA) Saab 750
Saab 850
67 Gene Leavens (NJ)
? Myron Munchak? car destroyed at Weatherly Hill Climb??
Begra Mk3
(3-004) 1962
(kit) Andy Anderson (MO)
Bob McCollum (MO)
Tom Newcomer (MO) Sprite/Fiat British Racing Green - I have not yet made definite connections from Kansas City to the west coast
1967 Ken Edwards (MO) Sprite/Fiat owned by McCollum
1977 Gordon Hoobler
(San Francisco) Fiat/Hewland Red - disk brakes - "brought car to west coast from Chicago area"
? Dennis Shockey bought after crash
1985-87 Ron Hoff
(San Francisco)
87 Art Magallanes (Hawaii) VW frame only
Thanks!
I had noted it and did check into it but was unable to find my source again...