by bigbanger » Thu Aug 15, 2013 4:26 am
Well, the NZ HRM photo pretty well confirms that Cliff's Monaro was the ex Cullinane/Arkley car. I noticed the 'Champion' sticker on the left front guard is in the identical place to on both photo's. The sticker above the wheel seems to be an 'Arbuckles OSCA Supercar' one, Arbuckles sponsored OSCA for a couple of seasons in the 1980's.
As far as further modifications goes, I always thought the engine was within the original engine bay, I never noticed any firewall cut and set back typical of the more highly modified OSCA A class cars. Likewise with body mods, no flares etc.
Cliff only occasionally ran in the OSCA class, usually in the second half of the field, the Monaro was probably something like 300 kg heavier and 100 plus HP down on the front running OSCA V8's, the mid 13 drag quarter is a good comparison to the low 12's, and high 11's, the likes of Osborne, Munt and Kennard would put down over the 1/4 mile at the time. It was a front runner in Canterbury CC Clubmans though and as previously noted, at the Drags.
Just going back to my earlier post re Cliff's Camaro for a moment, now that my mind has been jogged, yes he definitely had a black ex Castrol GTX Z28. I may have been confused some 30 years later regarding the brown one, I seem to recall Cliff racing a brown Z28, perhaps it was at the Southern 200 and it was still Gary Edward's or some others car?
And as others have said, Cliff was a true muscle car enthusiast and a great club member both CCC and PBDRC.
Well, the NZ HRM photo pretty well confirms that Cliff's Monaro was the ex Cullinane/Arkley car. I noticed the 'Champion' sticker on the left front guard is in the identical place to on both photo's. The sticker above the wheel seems to be an 'Arbuckles OSCA Supercar' one, Arbuckles sponsored OSCA for a couple of seasons in the 1980's.
As far as further modifications goes, I always thought the engine was within the original engine bay, I never noticed any firewall cut and set back typical of the more highly modified OSCA A class cars. Likewise with body mods, no flares etc.
Cliff only occasionally ran in the OSCA class, usually in the second half of the field, the Monaro was probably something like 300 kg heavier and 100 plus HP down on the front running OSCA V8's, the mid 13 drag quarter is a good comparison to the low 12's, and high 11's, the likes of Osborne, Munt and Kennard would put down over the 1/4 mile at the time. It was a front runner in Canterbury CC Clubmans though and as previously noted, at the Drags.
Just going back to my earlier post re Cliff's Camaro for a moment, now that my mind has been jogged, yes he definitely had a black ex Castrol GTX Z28. I may have been confused some 30 years later regarding the brown one, I seem to recall Cliff racing a brown Z28, perhaps it was at the Southern 200 and it was still Gary Edward's or some others car?
And as others have said, Cliff was a true muscle car enthusiast and a great club member both CCC and PBDRC.