{"id":171635,"date":"2026-02-02T20:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/?p=171635"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:44:34","slug":"graham-gauld-on-nardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/graham-gauld-on-nardi\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Gauld on Nardi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_80726\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-1-570.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80726\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80726\" src=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-1-570.jpg\" alt=\"sdfsdfds\" width=\"570\" height=\"446\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-1-570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pic-1-570-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The mystery BMW Special. Note the two hoods, the front holding the engine and the top one holding the spare wheel.<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story and photos by Graham Gauld<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the <em>VeloceToday<\/em> Archives, March, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Last week I talked about the car that truly stopped the show at Retromobile, the Ferrari 335S, so now I will go from the sublime to the ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A tale of two? Nardis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I happened by the stand of Christophe Pund who runs<em> La Galerie Des Damiers<\/em> and has a habit of digging up remarkable cars that no one has ever heard of. This year he went better and put on show a car he told me he had found as a wreck  \u2013 and by the time of Retromobile it was little more than that \u2013 but did not know exactly what it was. I mention it because some reader in Italy may remember something about it and be able to help out.<br \/>\nFundamentally it is a two-seater sports car with a lightweight body and powered by a 750cc BMW motorcycle engine mounted in its own compartment at the front of the car. There is a second hood under which is the spare wheel so the driver sits in one of two sketchy seats holding what appears to be a Nardi steering wheel. <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F171635\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and photos by Graham Gauld From the VeloceToday Archives, March, 2016 Last week I talked about the car that truly stopped the show at Retromobile, the Ferrari 335S, so now I will go from the sublime to the ridiculous. A tale of two? Nardis I happened by the stand of Christophe Pund who runs... <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F171635\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1189],"tags":[6487,6485,6396,6484,6486,1176,6467],"class_list":{"0":"post-171635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-etceterinis","7":"tag-bmw-racers","8":"tag-christoph-pund","9":"tag-graham-gauld","10":"tag-graham-guald-nardi","11":"tag-lord-doune","12":"tag-nardi-bmw","13":"tag-retromobile-2016","14":"pmpro-level-required","15":"pmpro-level-1","16":"pmpro-no-access","17":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171636,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171635\/revisions\/171636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}