It may look like a Jabro but Ed Zink never copied anything. It is a Zink
Z-4, built around 1964-65 before he get into his immensely successful
formula vees. Bill Fleming is the best source. I have a picture of the
Z-4 on the bill of sale for Z-5(FV) number 16.
Grant Reynolds
Charles Christ wrote:
> it looks very much like a MK4 jabro. the mid engine version (as MK1 wich i
> have an early one of sitting here, through MK3 were all front engine cars. )
> alegedly was the lowest production figure car of the jabros. did the car
> start life as a jabro body on another chassis? or is it a one off body
> fabricated with the jabro having a very close similarity? dkw power?
> cool! another 2 stroke car.
> now another question may be if it was based upon a MK4 jabro, where is it
> today? and what now powers it? dkw, panhard, crosley, saab, triumph and
> bmw motorcycle engines, and fiat were popular engines of the time. but as
> many can attest the cars saw difrent power plants/ gear boxes being swapped
> from owner to owner as evryone had differing opinions as to what was the hot
> set up where and when.
> possibly if it was based upon a MK4 jabro you might start polling jabro
> owners as to who might be able to identify any remnats of the mounts for a
> DKW drive line in any known existing cars?
>
> chuck.
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