does anyone have info on barrie whizzo 240

JK240

Club Member
Who is Barrie Whizzo?
https://www.autosport.com/historics/news/138594/obituary-barrie-whizzo-williams-19382018

He came to the first and/or second Donington meets, without the car though as it had had a fire a few months earlier. Nice man.

Last owner was a chap from Wigan I think, but I know no more than that...

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Albrecht

Well-Known Forum User
Nice man.

Other personal experiences are available.

'Whizzo' bought the car from Kevin Bristow's father, Malcolm.

Malcolm did hundreds if not thousands of circuit laps in the UK in it, being an enthusiastic member of the Goodwood Road Racing Club and a serial trackday participant. It was a lovely car with an excellent bodyshell, and scrupulously prepped and maintained for his father by Kevin. It used to run an L24 engine that I had used in my first 240Z, fitted with an early set of Weber 40DCOE-18s. Just a warmed-over spec with a bumped compression ratio, mild cam and (if I remember correctly) a Janspeed manifold. It ran great, stayed in tune and never gave any trouble.

Then he sold the car to 'Whizzo'...

'Whizzo' couldn't resist fiddling about with it, and - hey presto! - in short order he managed to have a carburettor fire. Somebody else's fault, of course, and he started pointing the finger at yours truly. Why? I hadn't touched the bloody thing for five years at least.

He got the nickname 'Whizzo the W******' in our house.
 

red baron

Well-Known Forum User
been offered the car still got your engine alan carbs and exhaust as you state being offered as 21,00omls genin good average condition has issues n/s innerwing turret near bottom paint not good and rear wings near dog leg opening up and more i declined to buy it reshell wants 50k when cleaned up and uses word orginal,thanks for the info
 
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Gmharg01

New Forum User
I certainly have never said it original - it was sold to me with a replacement engine and whilst the mot’s track nicely back to 1994 I have only ever said to people that’s the paper trail - what it has done before that or how accurate it all cannot be verified - and pointed out the wheel arch and the d/s front rust area - i came on here when I bought it and the comments at the time were limited on its history - the car dealer I bought from had the engine rebuild spec sheet from Dave Jarman and a nice file of history and photo’s of restoration - I have had people enquiring about it and I had received an offer back in august when I advertised it on Barrie Facebook page that fell through but as far as I know it hasn’t been “offered” to anyone.
 

JK240

Club Member
is it worth any more than one owned by 'bill smith'? surely it should just be judged on its own merits.
I'm not sure anyone said it was worth any more because an old racer owned it, OP just asked if anyone knew of it...
 
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