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It was owned by a fellow in the UK, Andy I think his name was, and is an
early, BMW-engined car. He was humming along, singing a song, when a
high-pressure fuel line (remember these things are fuel-injected) broke free and sprayed
down the engine bay with fuel, resulting in Guara flambé.
The car was totalled and taken to a wrecking yard, where it sat for a year.
Phil Stebbings bought the whole thing for 2000 pounds (!) with the intent of
restoring it, as Ric Lee has some extra body panels, wheels etc. But he
quickly became overwhelmed at the magnitude of the task, so he looked for someone to take it off his hands.
Which, of course, is where Roger Brotton comes in...:>
Roger now owns it and it is waiting in line, somewhere between his two
Deauvilles, Mangusta, Mini and Longchamp, awaiting restoration. He intends to chuck
the original Guara body and come up with his own, unique body for it.
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