Description
A very stylish car, re-bodied in a format based upon the sought-after Gurney Nutting design. Strongly constructed, very smartly and attractively finished to a high standard, and a real eye-catcher, sporting P100 headlights, rear-mounted trunk and spare wheel with 'clam shell' cover and quarter bumpers. The car has a lot going for it, and to many, is the ultimate coachwork design for a 20/ 25 chassis. Although running and driving, it is in need of some mechanical attention due to an engine noise, and is therefore priced accordingly. Having said that, the compressions are good, the car has been rewired in cloth-covered cable, has a stainless-steel exhaust system, and in all other ways has been given a clean bill of health. So TLC is needed, but the work should be well and truly justified, both from the point of view of the satisfaction it would bring about and in all probability financially as well. Comes with multiple photo albums showing the restoration and body construction taking place.
Chassis No. GTZ8 Reg No. US 2763
Snippets: Murray of Pirnie Hall
Robert Alexander Murray (1862/ 1937) took delivery of GTZ8 at his family home of Pirniehall, Drymen in Dumbartonshire. The property had built in 1896 for his father - Sir Alexander Murray and upon his death was inherited by Robert & his wife Katherine and shortly after WWII the house was sold to the Dunbarton Education Dept who converted it into a residential school focusing on outdoor activities. In the Directory of Directions (1927 edition) Robert Murray (chartered accountant with Brown, Fleming 7 Murray) was listed as a director of 18 companies, including British Celanese Ltd, Ceylon Estates Ltd., Clydesdale Bank, Midland Bank, New Transvaal Chemical Co., New Zealand & Australian Land Co and Waterproofing Co Ltd., Upon his death the terms of his will stated that his widow, Katherine was due an annuity of £7, 000 per annum (free of tax) and the lifetime use of Pirniehall together with his other properties. In August 1918 just prior to the end of WWI his only daughter, Katherine, had married Capt. Henry William Bunbury of the Royal Air Force, an earlier ancestor of Capt Bunbury was Sir Henry William Bunbury who was a talented and well-known caricaturist. During the 1940s to the 1990s GTZ8 spent some time with Capt Michael Hollinshead before being acquired by Mel Wilde who commissioned the coach-building team of Jack & Duncan Buckley to produce the bodywork that the car wears today.
