The Roaring Season

CUSTAXIE50 wrote:talk about public road testing for race cars i have been told of a number of road race cars testing on auckland motorway,going back to around about 1968 i was over at jim boyds place he was working on the new motor that he had put in the t70 sports car that he was going to race ,he said to me lets go for a test run down the road talk about fast thats how it went on in the old days.george begg also did this with all his race cars.

Chris Read wrote:Is damn hard to get a real copy of Smash Palace but I hounded the video stores a few years ago and got two as they said it had gone off the hit list. I look at it from time to time as that run down the road is legendary and what we all wanted to do (and some of us obviously did including me). I owned the Ex Oxton B29 Chevron that I think was the car dicing around in the staged ducking and diving. [ATTACH=CONFIG]12631[/ATTACH]
When I was in Dunedin we had no circuit and so we had a piece of flat sealed road on the Taieri with no side roads or houses that we used to do an 'Al Shaw' on - no helmet just sunnies.
ahhhh the good old days eh!

Sorekiwi wrote:Myself and another expat kiwi watched "Good Bye Pork Pie" over a couple cold ones a few weeks ago.

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Steve Holmes wrote:Yeah I did notice that Conrad, the rain tyres appeared every time the car was on gravel! Same in the race at Bay Park. Millen did actually win both races at Bay Park, and it was a wet/dry meeting. I guess thats why it kept switching from wet to dry etc. The in-car footage at Bay Park was obviously staged, as Millen was just blowing by other cars on the straights. I assume this must have been filmed during lunch break or something at the event, because the crowds were all there?

Steve Holmes wrote:I saw a Roger Donaldson doco several years ago in which Millen was interviewed about Smash Palace. He said when he tracked down the Ralt, he had to get someone else to go buy the car for him, otherwise the seller might have suddenly increased the price on learning who the buyer was.

CUSTAXIE50 wrote:talk about public road testing for race cars i have been told of a number of road race cars testing on auckland motorway,going back to around about 1968 i was over at jim boyds place he was working on the new motor that he had put in the t70 sports car that he was going to race ,he said to me lets go for a test run down the road talk about fast thats how it went on in the old days.george begg also did this with all his race cars.