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Mid engine Marina

Post by locost_bryan » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:01 am

During the early '80s, a mid-engined Marina raced in the NZ Sport Sedan series.

Some details have come to light in this thread on the Roaring Season.

"Graham Park was the Marina man,back in the mid sixties ,I think first he raced a Plymouth coupe or something similar ,then we raced Anglias together 66/67 ,after that I think he went o/seas and worked for Broadspeed ?, he later returned to NZ and built up and raced the Marina V8."

"A very interesting Marina it was as well. In it's most developed form it had a turbocharged 4.4 litre Leyland V8 'midmounted' behind the driver. From hazy memory, no transaxle was used, the gearbox went straight to the diff with little or no driveshaft in between."

"Another little snippet of interest is that of Graham Parks incredible Morris Marina V8. The car caught fire at Bay Park and no one could actually see that it was alight because of the tinted windows. Because of this there was a MANZ law change that banned tinted windows...."

"I'm quite impressed by the quality of the Morris Marina. That is a nicely turned out car."

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Re: Mid engine Marina

Post by ScreamingLordStokes » Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:33 am

Wow Bryan, what a monster! Fantastic find :lol:

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Post by Viscount Orange Biscuit » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:15 am

wow Beast and a Bit eh?? thanks for sharing
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Re: Mid engine Marina

Post by terrytibbs » Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:49 pm

oh yes! thats some marina coupe! 8)

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Re: Mid engine Marina

Post by minispeedstar » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:58 pm

F**king hell!! thats a stunner! :)
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Post by JubileeNut » Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:01 pm

Loving that very much, is it still about?
That would be worth restoring and seeing.
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Re: Mid engine Marina

Post by vermillion » Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:19 pm

Wow that is some coupe. What I wouldn't give to own that little beauty. Anyone want to buy a Mumford :roll: :roll:

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Post by JoshWard » Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:44 am

Shame you'd just dither along at 45mph in the middle of the road going to get your pension in it :lol: :lol:
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Re: Mid engine Marina

Post by vermillion » Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:36 pm

Oh Josh, if only you knew????? And this coming from someone who's clutch control is so bad he needs 2 spare gearboxes for his "old mans saloon" :lol: :lol:

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Re: Mid engine Marina

Post by locost_bryan » Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:34 pm

JubileeNut wrote:Loving that very much, is it still about?
That would be worth restoring and seeing.
I haven't been able to find out anything about it's current whereabouts. :(

I have a record of a 1974 Marina fitted with a 4400cc engine, first registered in Oct 1982 and cancelled in 1995. Back then race cars still had to be registered :roll: "exempt Class A", so it could be this one. :?
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Re: Mid engine Marina

Post by rsd » Wed Sep 26, 2018 3:33 am

locost_bryan wrote: Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:34 pm
JubileeNut wrote:Loving that very much, is it still about?
That would be worth restoring and seeing.
I haven't been able to find out anything about it's current whereabouts. :(

I have a record of a 1974 Marina fitted with a 4400cc engine, first registered in Oct 1982 and cancelled in 1995. Back then race cars still had to be registered :roll: "exempt Class A", so it could be this one. :?
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Re: Mid engine Marina

Post by JubileeNut » Wed Sep 26, 2018 4:59 pm

Cool, more videos are now required.
Nice to see it in good nick.
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Re: Mid engine Marina

Post by mickthefitter » Wed Sep 26, 2018 6:20 pm

Loving the pseudo 'JPS' logo! :lol:

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Re: Mid engine Marina

Post by locost_bryan » Thu Sep 27, 2018 1:01 am

Can be seen racing at Baypark in 1984 https://youtu.be/ou47qha5j6A
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Re: Mid engine Marina

Post by locost_bryan » Thu Sep 27, 2018 4:54 am

Photos of the car at a recent historic meeting can be found here https://www.muzzpix.com/personal-project/
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