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Originally Posted by Gerard C
What a relief Mike at least one car on earth you dont remember! Phew 
Nice looking and good engine. If you like to compare with what could be found here, make a search with Marcadier or Fournier Marcadier and may be BBM, BSH or Jidé/ Scora… or Alpine and CG (Chappe et Gessalin)! Not always easy to be born French I tell you! 
Mind you E.B knows about rarities… |
I did have the advantage with Bolwell of driving past their factory in Mordialloc going to and coming home from work everyday.
Even though they had stopped production by then and moved on to other things I always saw a few cars outside their factory needing body repairs and remember stopping off on the way home a few times.
Elfin being another in Melbourne I can think of. Although they were more famous for producing race cars from small formula through to Big Banger sports cars and F5000, they also made low volume sports cars ike the T5 and MS8 Caterham type of thing plus another Sports car, the MS8 Streamliner. Now I think owned by the Walkinshaw empire. These are more modern versions of their earlier road cars.
http://www.elfin.com.au/elfin/2008/showroom/
Nota is another. They also make Caterham style cars with Honda S2000 running gear.
https://www.notasportscars.com/
Another rarity was the Giacattolo. Only around for a few years in the late eighties and based on a heavily modified Alfa Romeo Sprint running a mid mounted V8 engine. Only very few models of the Giocattolo were manufactured though I very briefly got a test run in one once through a friend of a friend. Sometimes see a couple at PI and other historic meetings, in fact drove most of the journey last year with one in convoy. Beautiful bit of kit!
https://youtu.be/cukvHoFs8Ao?t=116
https://youtu.be/IQztwPyiC6A?t=42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti5xfXyAhLs