Holden Gemini turbo and Bolwell Nagari Roadster – the cars that got away
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Bolwell Nagari Roadster
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We’ve had some weird and wonderful stuff advertised over the years – did you buy it?
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The full turbo-kit Gemini is a very rare beastie.
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CDT Gemini Turbo - advertised March 86
Holden's baby desperately needed a performance version but the manufacturer was strangely reticent.
Eventually the gap was filled by Gemini racer James Faneco who put together a deal with rural Holden dealers to form the Country Dealer Team and offered participating dealers a range of dress-up and performance kits to pay the bills.
For homologation purposes, 500 cars were supposedly built but that total is questionable.
Turbocharged Stage 3 cars are very scarce and still not exorbitantly expensive.
Then $12,500 Now$16-20,000
Bolwell Nagari Roadster - advertised Nov 98
If this car had been built with an exotic badge and sold into Europe and the USA, asking prices would by now have cracked the $1 million barrier and any available car fought over by panting collectors.
Just 12 open-topped Bolwell Nagaris were built - plus perhaps a few converted coupes - and values in the only country where anyone even knows what they are haven't yet reached $100,000.
This car at almost $40,000 in 1998 was just dearer than our Value Guide Condition 1 price at the time but whoever bought it is likely to still be grinning.
Then$39,950 Now $85-100,000
Published in Unique Cars mag #380
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