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Solved: Allemano's № 566 - 1971 Bulanti Mini
« on: February 21, 2011, 09:07:36 AM »
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Re: Allemano's № 566
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2011, 07:24:24 AM »
Experts!

(not Wendax, I hope..)
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Re: Allemano's № 566
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2011, 07:27:42 AM »
I leave this one out             ... for some time  ;D
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Re: Allemano's № 566
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2011, 07:36:51 AM »
:thumbsup: I appreciate your sportsmanship!
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Re: Allemano's № 566
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2011, 02:26:51 AM »
Bulanti Mini
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Re: Allemano's № 566
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2011, 02:32:35 AM »
Right!

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The car was dreamt up by Brian Rawlings who had previously worked for other cottage car manufacturers Down Under but came up with his own Mini based sporty in 1971. The aluminium bodied prototype was featured in my book (as photographed by Craig Watson of Autofan fame)(...)
However the production cars that followed came with a fibreglass body. 'Production' may be a bit of an exaggeration though, as manufacture was limited to only two more Bulantis! I particularly like Rawlings reasons for that as he was quoted: "It was just too much trouble. All the fiddly things like getting the noise down, doing the electrics and upholstery and one bloke wanting ashtrays in it, get you down." That's character.

But strangely I have never seen current pictures of the other two cars. One of these was being registered 'BAL 551' on New South Wales plates and featured in a couple of Australian magazines of the day. I spent a small fortune on Sports Car World magazines (it's particularly the postage to Europe that makes it hefty) but couldn't find any information on the third car. Who knows if these crazy little Aussies survive?
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