I know the car. Richie will too.
Yep. Andy Shaw's car. Lives in Sale, Manchester. He was, I think, the first to fully execute the RB26DETT swap in the UK, back in the noughties. It was going out in Andy's car as a passenger that helped give Dave Porter the inspiration for his swap to RB power. He scared Dave sh!tless getting onto the M60 if I remember rightly - 0-150+mph up the slip road...
It's an excellent car in all respects. Total sleeper, with its classic appearance, even down to the period 14" wheels. It's also really quiet on idle; other than the slightly larger exhaust tips, there's no external evidence of its utter supercar-battering savagery. Andy's outrun numerous pretenders in expensive German toys in it, when they've come up behind him on the motorway trying to bully him out the way, and been handed their asses.
A lot of the work was done by Lawrence Evans of Star Motorsport. Andy did a bunch of work himself too, using guidance and information from Hybridz.com. Pmac also had a hand in certain aspects if I remember rightly.
I would not hesitate if I had the money tbh (final price, offers, etc., aside). It could cost you significantly more to replicate that car from scratch. Awesome thing.
Side note: the near mint original seats in my red Z are in fact the original seats from that car. I bought them off Andy when reassembling my car as he wanted to go to leather but couldn't bring himself to have those originals recovered because they were near pristine.
