My midlife crisis has taken the shape of a Purvis Eureka.
This toy would best be described as "some assembly required".
I have no idea where to start, so I'm looking for a complete, running machine to get a look at & take a few dozen photos to get said idea.
There used to be one floating around Newy. Any guesses??
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
There is a Purvis on fletch's facebook page .
Go to facebook Mark Fletcher.
so where did you get this one, Boat Harbour / Nelson Bay way?
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
Right here in Gwandalan. Believe it or not, 5 houses up the road.
Bloke has had it for 15 years & not touched it. I've known about it for 8 years & always said if it came up for sale it would be here in a heartbeat.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
At least you didn't have to go far to get it!
Pretty sure there is a bloke in Kurri Kurri with one.
From your ole' mate Jeff
I have seen a red one at Newcastle car shows over the years..
and have seen more than one at the Nationals some years..
they seem to be one of the better kit cars..
Not sure what tail lamps they have.
LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
Make absoultely certain that you are not too tall for a Purvis Eureka.
I'm 5'10" in old language and when I sat in a Purvis with the seat very close to the floor the top of the windscreen frame was right in front of my eyes and blocking my view of the road.
That would be reason enough for me to never buy a Purvis.
The purvis must have been designed by someone who was short.
I've been reading up on them.
The first model, which this one is, the roof line is very low. You can sort of see on the photo that someone has tried to make a targa top. At 5'6 I've got no problem, but, my eldest son at 6'1, the roof line is level with his nose. May have to leave the targa top & get him a pair of flying goggles 😂
Apparently, they made the next model to accomodate taller people.
The red one is the one I'm thinking of, seen it at a few local shows myself, but not for a while.
Went down to the nationals with 2 cameras, not one showed up.
It's not as if there's a rush though.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
Spook, there are a few in the area. Try here to start.
http://eurekacarclub.com.au/forum/Didn't know they had a forum, I'll get on to that.
I emailed this mob 2 weeks before I bought the car & I'm still waiting on a reply.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
I reckon that if I had a Purvis. I'd remove the lift up lid and take the car down to a boat place and have them fit a customised boat windscreen to it.
It would probably be plastic, and would possibly be illegal but until the windscreen became impossible to see through when driving into the sun, it would solve the problem that I have of being too tall for one.
As I said the later model had a higher roof line. You can see it here.
So you may just need to look for one of them.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
