The Roaring Season

thunder427 wrote:....Graham Vautier's 'Hot Rod' was probably the most 'Iconic' car of the time,Graham showed us all that 'Building a Hot Rod' could be something more than just the traditional route taken by most at that period of time .......he showed us that 'Customising' overlapped onto the world of the Hot Rod!!!!!........regards thunder427/MJ

kiwi285 wrote:Hi M10B, great to have you on board. Does Alan intend to restore the two cars that he has. What is the status of the ex Matich car. I am sure that I have a photo of that car at Pukekohe.

kiwi285 wrote:I seem to remember that the Niel Allen M10B was a pale blue colour when it raced in NZ. See Part 3 post # 15 - last photo. There is also another photo on this car side on that I don't think has been posted as yet.

If these two cars are currently being restored plus the other three or four in NZ there should be a healthy collection of M10's in the southern hemisphere.

Steve Holmes wrote:Here we have Graham Harvey in the Elfin 400 Repco sports car, and a couple of Graham Watsons cars, including his Mini Cooper and Brabham. Anyone got info on the Honda S600? This was taken in Sydney.


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Steve Holmes wrote:Its hot rod time! Greg Stokes will be able to ID these cars, if someone else doesn't beat him to it.

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. In the Hot Rod Show photo you will notice in the far left background Hot Rod Magazines Rob Campbells 34 Ford Roadster. My mate on the North Shore...Jim Buncuga bought the Lincoln Zephry V12 Powered A Roadster from Keith McQuaid. Also interesting to note that Maurice Campbell was a parapalegic and was confined to a wheel chair when he built this rod with the help of Mike Gearing who owned the Cadillac powered Model A roadster in the same shot. Also bit further down the page is a shot of Paul Adams in the Rally Mk2 Escort Nylex Vinyltop car. His brother in law ...the Late John Woolfe, son of legend Alan, ....had the same sponsorship on his RX3 coupe which he took to the USA. ...Best Regards, Tony Rutherford.

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pallmall wrote:He did, as proof there is a colour photo taken at Wigram on the cover of the Shell NZ Motor Racing 1971 booklet.

Leo D wrote:

Just following up on these cars, you can read the note from Alan Hamilton about his purchase of the cars here

http://www.vhrr.com/newsletters/2011-July-Newsletter.pdf

Niel Allen was one of the first F5000 runners here in Australia. His car was in fact painted a light iridescent blue colour, which would be the colour mentioned earlier.

The Elfin Traco Chev


The Elfin ME5




That was his "Team" colour at the time, being used on the Elfin Traco Chev as well as the Elfin ME5 sports car that he had built to order by Garrie Coopers Elfin Sports Cars in Adelaide. Niel only did a few races in the ME5 before moving into F5000.

The 1967 Mustang that he had was an ex Greg Cusack car that he ran for a while alongside the Elfin Traco Sports Car.