The Roaring Season

by **lorenzo alia** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 12:22 am

Hi friend Steve, I am an Italian driver, great lover of sports prototypes of the 70's and 80's in the world; I ask you, please, also the name of the New Zealand sports prototypes of the 80's N°7-4-2-88-8; I am only interested in those built in New Zealand; my email address is: [email protected], I am also on facebook: LORENZO ALIA; many thanks, many regards

by **lorenzo alia** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 12:14 am

Hi friend Steve, I am an Italian pilot, great lover of sports prototypes 70s, 80s, in the world; I ask you, please, the name of the N°9-18-Mills-17-4-2-1-PARTRIDGE CRANES-59-7-24; I am interested only those built in New Zealand; my email address is: [email protected], I am also on facebook: LORENZO ALIA; many thanks, many regards

by **lorenzo alia** » Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:45 pm

Hello friends, I am an Italian pilot, very fond of sport prototypes of the 70s, 80s, in the world; I ask you kindly if you can send me to the email address: [email protected] some photos of sport prototypes from New Zealand, 70s, 80s and how they are called; many thanks, many greetings Lorenzo Alia

by **Roger Dowding** » Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:17 am

As mentioned on other threads, Bucklers, and Ralph Watson, Bruce Dyer sent me some photos from a meeting at Taupo in 1998;
this seems the right place for the Mallock U2's and also the Fiat Targa.

Fiat Targa

Looks like the " Northland [ Jackson-Logan ] Special " and a Riley Special in the background as well as a single seater

Have a couple of shots of a Kieft too .. unsure where to place them as is a single seater !!

by **BMCBOY** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 5:35 pm

by **Sam** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 6:39 am

Hi

If any one interested ,Planning on getting a run out of Rhubarb 3 this weekend 5/11/16 for the teretonga 60th this weekend if any 1 has any info on current lancia motor in it would be greatly appreciated.

by **MadIrish** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:58 am

jamie wrote:Hi Eugene good to see you pop up in print I see you live in Ausi now. Are you still racing
Jamie A

Jamie, yes it's ben a long time. I moved to Oz after the divorce and the first of two battles with the deadly "rust". Health problems and starting-over have kept me out of racing, but I try to follow what I can back in NZ mostly as the Aussie sports-racing scene is limited to state level championships in NSW and Queensland with only club sprint style events in Victoria. Surfing trademe.co.nz over the last couple of months was interesting, Ralph Young's BDV up for sale twice (before and after an engine haemorrhage), Lester Reader's(RIP) LJR, a new-build rear-engined sports-racing cars and a SCANZ car in bits. In addition t bringing back heaps of memories of my brief time in SCANZ with a couple of U2's and a failed attempt with Rhubarb 2, it got me thinking about buying a project to restore now that I have the time and more importantly the ultimate requirement .... the money to do it properly for once.

Euge

by **west17** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 3:16 pm

Hi Paul, just a bit of nostalgia for you, I have the Rhubarb 1 car.It still exists.

by **Grant Sprague** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:31 am

bob homewood wrote:[ATTACH=CONFIG]2518[/ATTACH]

Rhubarb 2 and 3 Bay Park
This from my third Season with Rhubarb 3 when I raced it with the 416b Hart based engine ,Tino had a Mazda rotary engine in Rhubarb 2

Hi Bob , tell me more about the hart based engine ,,,,, this was a few yrs before I had a crack at SCANZ... & what lap times did this do ..... Thanks Granteeeee

by **tallpsmith** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:12 pm

Hi again, finally managed to pickup the slide scans and have uploaded them to this Flickr album here (includes the previous set):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tallpsmith/sets/72157647854438408

44 gallon drums for safety fencing. Classy. No idea how you guys did it back then.

regards,

Paul

by **jamie** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:48 pm

Yes Grant it was a good time ruined by Bureaucracy all to P C.

by **Grant Sprague** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:57 pm

jamie wrote:Hi Gang .
To you two Grants I believe the boys were into the Goon show and that is where the name came from along with a lot Hilarity
Jamie.

RRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr Jamie understand must have been lots of humour about in those days , much of that lacks to day , doing SCANZ with you was fun so it al makes sence , S,I,D Jamie the Goons Rhubarb you are lucky to combine fun with motor racing ....no lawyers & bull s...t just clean fun & a yarn & beers .....

by **jamie** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:27 pm

Hi Gang .
To you two Grants I believe the boys were into the Goon show and that is where the name came from along with a lot Hilarity
Jamie.

by **Grant Sprague** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 6:21 pm

Grant E , only just remembered about that rotary powered Rhubarb yep it was very noisy as well lol, you know when I got hooked for a few yrs with SCANZ I hunted a RHUBARB out up north by Auckland as I wanted to revive one knowing they were well build & did all the right things, this is how I meet Colin ......when I saw the car [which was all in tact] but need some TLC etc etc I decided to make a left turn & stay with my merlyn...... hey can you imagine if people like Jamie , you, Roly colin , Adian & my Dad all went to UK together going back years ago ,just making that step what they could have made happen , we had the best race drivers, best engineers, best ..., business skills best PR...... but.. never mind.. hey what could have pulled out of the hat Thank God Bruce etc went over ..... PS Grant E . I heard you might be back for flying visit would be great to catch up bring some piks of yr Anglia ALL GOOD THIS END GRANT no probs Kind Regards Grant S.........>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Why were they named RHUBARBS ??

by **Grant Ellwood** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 11:15 am

jamie wrote:Ha Ha Colin you have found out. Grant, Colin trying to be a secret Squirrel.
Tallpsmith Paul, yes Your Unc Colin was a very Accomplished driver and Sports car designer. He and Adrian and Rodger Rimmer went to England after building 5 sports cars and 1 Single seater in NZ and worked for Tiger with great success.
Jamie

Colin Smith and the Rimmer brothers deserve a book written about their exploits let alone a dedicated thread on this site documenting the cars they built. Can- An Cars up here in Missouri list a 1974 Rhubarb for sale circa US35,000, notes the various owners ending with Gavin Bateman. Wonder how it ended up in USA? It is the Mararn enclosed cockpit car with Nissan engine although it had rotary power when Tino Korzelius owned it. Check it out at canamcarsltd.com

by **GD66** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:24 am

Grant Sprague wrote:Paul .. Your Uncle & his friend Mr Rimmer are very talented men

And cousins... :cool:

by **GD66** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:23 am

Secretive bunch...Paul it's all true, Colin was an accomplished steerer but is also a card-carrying clever-clogs, Adrian among all his other accomplishments is still knocking up Blokart chassis to this day I think, and there are more than 13,000 of them around the world. I was at school in the same years as Robin Rimmer, and indeed Linda Smith so we were sort of able to keep an eye on the Rhubarbs from day 1. There's a lot to be said for working a good power/weight ratio even on a minimalist budget, and I'm sure the success of the early Rhubarbs alerted plenty of club-level racers to that.
There's a Colin Smith doing pics and the odd writeup for the Bay Times these days...could it be...?

by **jamie** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 4:22 am

Ha Ha Colin you have found out. Grant, Colin trying to be a secret Squirrel.
Tallpsmith Paul, yes Your Unc Colin was a very Accomplished driver and Sports car designer. He and Adrian and Rodger Rimmer went to England after building 5 sports cars and 1 Single seater in NZ and worked for Tiger with great success.
Jamie

by **Grant Sprague** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 1:54 am

tallpsmith wrote:Hi all - I located this thread after Googling my Uncle Colin (Smith), who I always knew had a background with racing, but then only recently found out was the 1976 NZ Champion here. (queue: "WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED" discussion with my family...)

After discovering the photos in this thread it inspired me to dig through some family archives to see what we had. I located a handful of photos, and slides. I'll post the scanned photos here, the slides are getting converted to digital (not cheap!) and I'll post those here again when they arrive.

Hope you like these photos.

Colin in Rhubarb 3?:
Rhubarb 1 (I think) on a trailer:
Colin taking a... novel line:

One last personal one (and not technically car related), but Colin's influences my love of motor sport to this day, and I think this is where it might have started: Yours truly, a long time ago (I was born in '73):

I have 5 slide digitals I'll post later this week, which are in colour.

warm regards,

Paul Smith

Paul .. Your Uncle & his friend Mr Rimmer are very talented men , not only as car driver [drivers] but race car builders when they worked & lived in England. later returning ,.... & built these cars ....I meet Colin when he ran Whitcoulls in Tauranga A Rimmer built the Rimmer carts in Tauranga , Regards Grant

by **tallpsmith** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 12:12 am

Hi all - I located this thread after Googling my Uncle Colin (Smith), who I always knew had a background with racing, but then only recently found out was the 1976 NZ Champion here. (queue: "WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED" discussion with my family...)

After discovering the photos in this thread it inspired me to dig through some family archives to see what we had. I located a handful of photos, and slides. I'll post the scanned photos here, the slides are getting converted to digital (not cheap!) and I'll post those here again when they arrive.

Hope you like these photos.

Colin in Rhubarb 3?:

Rhubarb 1 (I think) on a trailer:

Colin taking a... novel line:

One last personal one (and not technically car related), but Colin's influences my love of motor sport to this day, and I think this is where it might have started: Yours truly, a long time ago (I was born in '73):

I have 5 slide digitals I'll post later this week, which are in colour.

warm regards,

Paul Smith

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