Go west for chance to see rare sports car

IT’S your chance to see one of the rarest sports cars in the world. Organisers of the Ireland Heads West for Emma outdoor Classic, Vintage Car and Farm Machinery show, in aid of Emma Naughton-Heavey, who has cancer, have announced the Fraser Nash Sebring will take pride of place this year.

Frazer Nash was a British sports car manufacturer and engineering company founded in 1922. Producing cars and motorbikes up to the outbreak of World War II, the company temporarily switched to manufacturing turrets for aircraft bombers including the famous Lancaster. After the end of the war, Frazer Nash returned to car manufacturing. Utilising a Bristol-built engine which was derived from a BMW 328 brought back from Germany in 1948, they began to build a series of notable sports and racing cars, the most famous of which is arguably The Frazer Nash Sebring.

Event organiser Thomas Heavey said to have one of these cars at the show is a privilege.