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1970 Nomad-BRM Mk 3 - SOLD
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Description:
The amateur designer/builder/racer’s days in International sportscar racing were numbered when Mark Konig, Bob Curl and Julian Pratt created the Nomad Mk3 for the 1970 season. Despite a tight budget, designer Curl’s lighter, sleeker evolution of the race-winning tubular framed Mk2 chassis - still powered by a two-litre ‘Tasman’ BRM V8 engine - was an ultra-professional effort which attracted widespread admiration from rival teams. Stockbroker Konig, who funded it, and professional Tony Lanfranchi demonstrated the car’s potential in European endurance events before the money ran dry, but lack of resources against the grandees ultimately thwarted the project. Konig and Paul Vestey duly took Mk3 to Southern Africa for the 1970-’71 Springbok series, Mark finishing a gratifying third in the three-hour finale at Welkom’s new Goldfields Raceway, his and the gallant little marque’s swansong.
Historic raced by subsequent owners with Ford V6 and Porsche flat-six power, Nomad Mk3 was superbly restored to original spec - with wailing BRM V8 engine and Hewland FG400 gearbox - by highly-reputed Simon Ayliff for the vendor in 2017 and demonstrated at the 2021 Goodwood Revival Meeting. A magnificent testament to period enterprise, offered with current HTP, this unique and charismatic warhorse is a passport to the finest historic racing events worldwide.
