I purchased the Rowell Teardrop in Tasmania on condition that it was not to be sold overseas EVER. It has only been run twice to my knowledge. Once in Hobart in 1950, officially clocked at 107.5 MPH which is within a bees of 173 KPH .It was then left dormant until I brought it in 2004. I took it to Sydney in November of that year to run in the Oldtime Meet they have there each year. However we had troubles with it, when the tank was pressure tested it must have stirred up some scale which had formed over the years between 1950 and 2004 (54 Years in total). We have however copied the tank. But it has not been run since as we don't have a track in Melbourne.

The serial number of the glow plug engine is 608 (Mk2 Series 1) which is as I received it. However it could have been altered as I brought through a friend in Hobart. The owner ran a Hobby Shop, but because of poor health was retiring. He could have sold it for a large amount of money but did not want it to leave the country. Besides some people think they can buy anything by pure weight of chequebook( It ain't necessarily so).

The body is hand beaten and car was built from information supplied with the engine. Wheels and tyres are in excellent condition and are Rowell's. Gears are spur and interestingly from the firm I buy gears from for my other tether cars, (of which I have 12 & more on the way) and is owned by a chap by the name of Rowell who tells me he is a relative of Wilfred's.

Any one who has taken a Rowell Engine apart will tell you it is far superior to both the Dooling and the McCoy. If fully developed and run against either of the previously mentioned engines. History would have been written differently on which was the more SUPERIOR????