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Nov 15, 2016 20:05:01 GMT
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Just found out tonight that Drew Bowler passed away yesterday (mon 14th). Designer off the bonkers Wildcat and other high performance off road machinery.    |
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dazcapri
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Nov 15, 2016 20:28:26 GMT
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What a shame RIP
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Nov 15, 2016 21:34:58 GMT
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Sad news indeed. He was a proper 'man in a shed' who started out doing something he enjoyed and made it big.
I remember reading quite a bit about him in the mid 90's LRO, specifically the birth of the Tomcat and development of the concept.
I reckon Richard Hammond's 'I am a driving God!!!' Line when doing a piece on the Wildcat summed up a great deal about the man and the innovation in his cars.
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tonup
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Great shame. Bought one of his early frames and raced with it in the early '90s. Lovely guy to deal with.
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Nov 16, 2016 10:41:16 GMT
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A great shame. His farm is very close to where I grew up. Sometimes we would be parked up out in the sticks at night, getting up to what teenagers do parked up at night in the sticks, and you would hear a V8 howling echo around the hills and a Landy-shaped flash while he did some late night testing. Awesome stuff.
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Last Edit: Nov 16, 2016 10:41:58 GMT by generallee
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Nov 16, 2016 11:52:28 GMT
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That is a great shame
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Nov 16, 2016 12:25:58 GMT
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Sad news indeed. He was a proper 'man in a shed' who started out doing something he enjoyed and made it big. I remember reading quite a bit about him in the mid 90's LRO, specifically the birth of the Tomcat and development of the concept. I reckon Richard Hammond's 'I am a driving God!!!' Line when doing a piece on the Wildcat summed up a great deal about the man and the innovation in his cars. Damn shame. I remember reading about the development of the Tomcat and then climbing into my '66, 2 1/4 petrol, 2A thinking, "If only" |
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Last Edit: Nov 16, 2016 12:26:24 GMT by georgeb
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