The Roaring Season

by **bry3500** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 6:49 am

thanks to historicsportscarracingnz.co.nz

by **jamie** » Thu Nov 06, 2014 3:13 am

Hi Gang.
u Hi Milan. Boy that is along time ago, I can still remember how cold that frost was that Morning it took hour's for my hands to warm
up.
I think that is John Macy behind me, had a few laps chasing Ken Smith and still have a photo of him and me with him behind me in the front engine Lola.
Grate days.
Jamie A

by **Milan Fistonic** » Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:45 am

Here's a photo from 50 years ago. Matamata in 1964.

by **jamie** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 9:57 am

ARH
My OLD OLD USA dog mate hope to see you at Rosebank Rd next weekend
Jamie

by **ElCoyote** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:23 am

jamie wrote:Hi Gang
Timaru
That was a real buzz. We went on the boat to Picton and was picked up by a mate who towed us to Timaru with his Ford single spinner flat head V8. SID went well. Big learning curve. Met a lot of people who are still good friends. It was a very long weekend as we went back to Picton via Nelson to see some of the country at night!! and in pouring rain. I suppose Mack meant well. There are some photos elsewhere in T R S of the car on a trailer in Nelson and at Timaru. I will troll my memory for what happened after that.

Jamie

I have always said you were a troll Jamie, I rest my case

by **jamie** » Sat Sep 13, 2014 12:29 am

Hi Gang
Timaru
That was a real buzz. We went on the boat to Picton and was picked up by a mate who towed us to Timaru with his Ford single spinner flat head V8. SID went well. Big learning curve. Met a lot of people who are still good friends. It was a very long weekend as we went back to Picton via Nelson to see some of the country at night!! and in pouring rain. I suppose Mack meant well. There are some photos elsewhere in T R S of the car on a trailer in Nelson and at Timaru. I will troll my memory for what happened after that.

Jamie

by **jamie** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 3:05 am

Hi Dave.
I had Facebook photo turn up last night with you following me around the sweeper onto the front straight At Ruapuna with only Mirror
on must be the same meting.
Jamie

by **jamie** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:15 pm

Hi Dave
Never did find that mirror. Had to put one on off the tow car to keep the Scrutineers happy. It looked bloody stupid but they were happy.
That U2 went real well I remember trying to pass you at Timaru the first time I went there you taught me the fast way round.
Jamie

by **waldyone** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:17 am

Hi Jamie.
Nice to see a thread on your racing career. I remember following you down the main straight at Ruapuna in the U2 when one of those high mounted mirrors came off and bounced down the track at me like a Hand Grenade. I didn't know which way it was going to go but luckily it had a final bounce and went over my head. There's not much to hide behind in one of those cars. Its funny how these things stick in your mind! I still have the U2 and have restored it back to its 1972 spec,1500cc Supercharged.
All the best
Dave Waldron

by **waldyone** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:16 am

Hi Jamie.
Nice to see a tread on your racing career. I remember following you down the main straight at Ruapuna in the U2 when one of those high mounted mirrors came off and bounced down the track at me like a Hand Grenade. I didn't know which way it was going to go but luckily it had a final bounce and went over my head. There's not much to hide behind in one of those cars. Its funny how these things stick in your mind! I still have the U2 and have restored it back to its 1972 spec,1500cc Supercharged.
All the best
Dave Waldron

by **jamie** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:44 am

Hi Rf84.
Yes it was good to catch up how did your run go We went up over the Gentle Annie on the way home.It's a nice drive, all sealed now.
Had lunch in Taihape. I will be down officiating at the Blossom meeting. Hope to see you.
Regards Jamie A

by **jamie** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:35 pm

Morning Terry.
I can confuse myself to.
Jamie

by **Terry S** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:26 am

jamie wrote:Hi Terry S.
The Frank I talked a bought was Frank Hanen a good mate of mine who had helped me with the Cooper Jaguar and we built SID Mk 1
together could that be where you get the Frank Bray from.
Jamie A

You are confusing me Jamie.
At the start of threads 37 & 38 you mention Frank Bray.
He built SMP which you eventually turned into SIDS 11

by **rf84** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:17 am

Hi Jamie
It was good to catch up with you in the weekend.
It is a tribute to you that you have been given your own thread on TRS. Unfortunately threads for people (as opposed to those for cars and series) are usually started only after their death.
You continue the tradition of Kiwi ingenuity applied to the building of race cars by the likes of Brewer, Green, the Stantons and Ralph Watson.
Sports racing cars have been a great class for encouraging innovative design and engineering ideas. It's a pity the sports racing class(es) do not have a higher profile.

by **jamie** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 5:20 am

Hi Terry S.
The Frank I talked a bought was Frank Hanen a good mate of mine who had helped me with the Cooper Jaguar and we built SID Mk 1
together could that be where you get the Frank Bray from.
Jamie A

by **tonttu** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 10:05 am

jamie wrote:Hi Michael Sorry to have kept you LIMBO for so long. After going to the movies and seeing Sid James in carry on up the KYBER as he was ugly and strange so like the car, the other names came later the and construction committee is still Out on those .BUT I AM
STILL IN DEBT FOR SOMETHING I DID Jamie A

I knew I'd seen Jamie A's answer earlier - Yards & Yarns post #437 ".... Frank and I were looking for A name we all went to the a movie early in 1970 with sid James in it, as the car was A bit ugly I said lets call it SID and thats it . Jamie "

by **jamie** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 5:55 am

Hi Terry.
rank Bray did all that . And raced the car as this as the S M P then the car went to the south Island I know Lyn Johnson had the car for a wile but what happened after that till picked it up out of a water front boat shed in a very sorry state. Refer # 33 08-12-2014.
Jamie

by **jamie** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 5:54 am

Hi Terry.
rank Bray did all that . And raced the car as this as the S M P then the car went to the south Island I know Lyn Johnson had the car for a wile but what happened after that till picked it up out of a water front boat shed in a very sorry state. Refer # 33 08-12-2014.
Jamie

by **Terry S** » Thu Aug 14, 2014 4:26 am

jamie wrote:Terry.
No Frank Bray made the SMP sports car out of the BT7 A. Dave Bray tells me that Frank had 2 frames but is not shore which was what. When I got my hands on it was a bit sad. Broken gear box. Blown motor. No body and a very rusty frame we repaid the frame. Rebuilt the motor. Found some parts for the Gear box. But with no idea of what to do for a body. Bill David came to the rescue with the body that had been on the Mk1 Heron so put that on and there you have S I D Mk 11 and what I rocket.
Jamie

Jamie, between Frank Bray and yourself, by the time SID Mk 2 completed you changed the complete front, widened the cockpit to make two seater, and changed rear for different engines.
There can't have been much of the Brabham left?

by **jamie** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:27 am

Hi Bry.
That is correct Why Bill David had the body I have no idea. Maybe Ross Baker might be able to help.
The front half of S I D MK1 the Baker brothers had been going to make 2 cars but that did not happen, so I was able to get the front half of the second car.
Jamie

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