Frazer Nash/BMW 319
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:26 am
I know it looks like this post shouldn’t be in Classic Porsche chat but as it involves (along the way) AFN, some Classic Porsche and a Porsche addict I thought it might be allowed.
Hopefully it’ll distract from our current indecision as to where to have a national DDK meet (for my monies worth we should piggyback a national event, pre-meet and drive in in convoy, so we can get parked up together, and enjoy the good music and ambience someone else has laid on - Megaphonics at Boxengasse is really good, pretty central and tickets are still available, and it’ll need precious little planning!)
Anyway, I digress. I may have mentioned this before on here, but for many years I’ve carried around in my wallet these dog-eared photos of my father’s old Frazer Nash/BMW.
Back in 2015, ddk’er and Mr all things GN/Frazer Nash Winston Teague put me in contact with the Archivist at the Frazer Nash Archives, Mike Sythes. He came up trumps with details about the car, chassis number, some owners, but said it was now in Germany, under restoration. Appetite whetted, I tried to trace the new owner/restorer but investigations led nowhere and other stuff happened in life, other Porsche were bought, enjoyed and sold, but over the years the pictures stayed in my wallet - a lovely memory of my father, and of the many cars he owned, and generously let me drive over the years before his death. I was indeed the son of a petrolhead.
Last year though, I suppose frustrated that I hadn’t found the car, I realised I was becoming besotted with the idea that I should try and own one, and when this came up on BaT I followed the auction..
Hopefully it’ll distract from our current indecision as to where to have a national DDK meet (for my monies worth we should piggyback a national event, pre-meet and drive in in convoy, so we can get parked up together, and enjoy the good music and ambience someone else has laid on - Megaphonics at Boxengasse is really good, pretty central and tickets are still available, and it’ll need precious little planning!)
Anyway, I digress. I may have mentioned this before on here, but for many years I’ve carried around in my wallet these dog-eared photos of my father’s old Frazer Nash/BMW.
Back in 2015, ddk’er and Mr all things GN/Frazer Nash Winston Teague put me in contact with the Archivist at the Frazer Nash Archives, Mike Sythes. He came up trumps with details about the car, chassis number, some owners, but said it was now in Germany, under restoration. Appetite whetted, I tried to trace the new owner/restorer but investigations led nowhere and other stuff happened in life, other Porsche were bought, enjoyed and sold, but over the years the pictures stayed in my wallet - a lovely memory of my father, and of the many cars he owned, and generously let me drive over the years before his death. I was indeed the son of a petrolhead.
Last year though, I suppose frustrated that I hadn’t found the car, I realised I was becoming besotted with the idea that I should try and own one, and when this came up on BaT I followed the auction..