Rebel Eureka Car Club (RECC): Australian Purvis Eureka Car Club for Motorsport Enthusiasts (Eureka Sports Coupe).

About RECC: Rebel Eureka Car Club (Australia)

Eureka's on TV
Purvis Eureka. Eureka F4 featuring in Tassie TV Series Wild, Blue and Free
All weather vehicle! Eureka F4 now featuring in the Tassie TV Series "Wild, Blue and Free"
The Rebel Eureka Car Club (RECC Australia) began when various crazy motorsport enthusiasts (including well known Aussie professional racers) decided to see what the Purvis Eureka could achieve on the tarmac in club and professional racing.

History had already shown that the original Allan Purvis designed Eureka could hold it's own in off-road rallies such as the Great Alpine Rally (car now lovingly owned by guitarist, navigator and all round man of many talent's Rossco from Queensland).

But how would this great kit car (named after Australia's only civil rebellion, Eureka) handle at the high speed and testing race tracks such as our own loved Phillip Island Circuit. Riders and drivers from all over the world rate Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit as one of the top two - if not number one itself - most challenging race tracks on the globe (Assen or Silverstone tends to be the other).

Many of our RECC'ers (no not WRECKERS... well...) are also regular's at the great island track (for more information see information website on Phillip Island and the Phillip Island Community Tourist Information Service

Safety, handling, durability and reliability. Using our combined knowledge of preparing V8 Supercars to other spec Aussie V8's and international open wheelers, we have set out to enjoy our unique Purvis Eureka's both as daily drivers or dedicated track machines. We're always learning something new!

Hence RECC (Rebel Eureka Car Club) heads into the new millennium helping promote and save this Australian marque, we've begun work on ORIGINAL spec Eureka's whilst not taking away from the original design basis. From those of the Allan Purvis factory in the 1970's to the XCL's made by the lady who saved the day by buying the original closed production business, Colleen Long. Be it the model PL30's (PL from Peter Lalor who led the Eureka Stockade rebellion at Ballarat) to the F4's (Made to take a Ford 4 cylinder) to the XCL (yep, CL rightfully immortalizes Colleen Long!)...

The colloquially known "Purvis Eureka" (Eureka Sports Coupe) design by Eureka Sports Car Company finally came to be purchased by current owner and automobilia enthusiast Paul Nelson; luckily just before everything was about to be destroyed. More stringent Australian Design Regulations coming into place across Australia unfortunately led to the production of the cars as a commercial concern becoming next to impossible.

And so the Purvis Eureka legend now lives on in the diverse hands of owners and restorers around Australia. From backyarders looking for a cheap toy to turn heads, to genuine enthusiasts who would not part with their Purvis or other supplied Eureka for "nix".

(NB: The Eureka design concept comes from the British Nova, and is also produced under various names in other countries e.g. [Solid] Sterling in the USA.)