A photo of the Nardi in the driveway of the owner’s house in St. John’s (Jacksonville), FL. Credit Bill Warner
Story by Bill Warner
When you are into old cars, particularly old race cars, over the years they tend to find you rather than you finding them. I’ve had a lot of luck over the years, starting in 1976 when I found the Denny Hulme Tourist Trophy winning Brabham BT8 in a South Carolina junkyard followed by the Lang Cooper, an Elva Mk 4, the Group 44 TR6 and TR8, a 1928 Chevrolet powered beach racer, the 1934 Ford Model 40 Special Speedster (Edsel Ford’s sportscar) and more recently a 1977 IROC Camaro driven by Al Unser and Niki Lauda, to name a few. Last year I received a call from a friend who is an officer on the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office who was trying to help a lady who had inherited a strange sports car from her recently departed brother and would I come to her house to tell her what it was. No problem in that the car was about 4 miles from my Garage Mahal in south Jacksonville.
