Tell us a bit about the crew you have had involved with building the car.

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It took about 2 weeks to find the right car in Japan. We never dreamt of building something like this at the start. If we had, I don’t think we would have started on her, the journey she has taken us on so far has been surreal.

The real starting point for her was fixing the inherent issues with the suspension geometry and a set of front uprights, from there it took a path and a life of its own, that I have to say has introduced me to new aspects of motorsports but more importantly to a lot of new close friends from around the world.


CE: We initially had a false start with the car, but t-shirt design service I was lucky enough to be introduced to Tony Porter from Porter Fabrications. Tony had originally been a lead fabricator at Stone Brothers Racing, and one of his close mates Nathan Leech (whom from here on in will be know as G), had also been at Stones. They are both responsible for a slew of other amazing cars but one standout is the rebuilding of Eric Bana’s “The Beast”. They are responsible for the suspension design, engineering and fabrication of almost the entire car.

To say Tony embraced this build like it was his own is an understatement. He made this build possible, when I think many would have stopped or turned back. By luck, beside one of Tony’s mates was Brad Cawthorne. Brad is a composite extraordinaire and has completed a lot of work on V8supercars and also on the offshore boat scene as well.



We were part way through the body kit fabrication when Alex and Dave of GT Auto Garage introduced us to Andrew Brilliant. That was probably the turning point for the car. It provided an important piece of the puzzle that we probably didn’t even know was really missing. Tony and G introduced me to Andy McElrea of McElrea Racing. Many people would know Andy as a driver, but Andy is also a Team owner whom has had a lot to do with again those rear horizontally apposed 6 cylinder motor cars.



Once Andy saw some of the work being completed on Nemo, he was hooked. Again luck stepped in and he had a guy from his home country of NZ, James Marshall whom has a lot of Time Attack experience in NZ and also a considerable amount of knowledge on Evos and WRXs. James and Leigh (The Team Manager at McElrea’s) are responsible under Andy for the assembly, setup and running of Nemo for us.

There are many other people that have been apart of the build, like my mates whom have toiled endless hours in the build. But that is really more than half the fun. Building it, Nemo is really a part of all of our DNA now.