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RACED & ADORED 1962 NEMESIS

From a dirt-floor garage to Victory Lane, then a chook shed and finally back to the race track: That’s the (very) potted history of this gorgeous little sports-racing car. That it involved two continents and happened over seven decades just makes the story even spicier.

FThe yarn kicks off in that dirt-floored shed we were talking about, when, way back in the late 1950s, a hands-on South Australian by the name of Peter Goodale started piecing spindly bits of metal together until he had something that more or less resembled a space-frame sports car. Peter had been working in the UK 

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