The Roaring Season

by **Carlo** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 6:38 pm

The three Twin Cams brought in for motorsport purposes were the Jim Carney car, The Ward / Simpson car, Tony Batchelor / Gary Sprague car.

I think that there was a 4th one brought in shortly after and it may have been for Ron Rutherford

by **j keast** » Thu Jun 25, 2015 5:29 am

No not all of the car but i still have some of the parts from the car

by **escorthvn** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:35 pm

j keast wrote:Thanks for all the help owner ship from Dave Simpson to its end all adds up.
Was the car imported built up as a race car or done in NZ and by who.
I brought the car as a semi rolling car from Henry Hammond

What I have seen somewhere was that there were 3 std twin cam road car imported new in 1968 by Ford NZ. Did Ron Rutherford get one of the 3 new twin cams. May have this wrong?????? Peter Bryan.

by **Steve Holmes** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:43 pm

Does it still exist?

by **j keast** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:27 pm

hello jac
No i sold the car as a roller to Dave Sharp then brought it back again later i built it into a rally car.

by **Jac Mac** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:30 am

[color="#0000FF"]Had Henry purchased it back from David Sharp after he had used it as a club rally car then John?[/color]

j keast wrote:Thanks for all the help owner ship from Dave Simpson to its end all adds up.
Was the car imported built up as a race car or done in NZ and by who.
I brought the car as a semi rolling car from Henry Hammond

by **GD66** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:49 am

My recollection is the car was a road car modified thoughtfully in Auckland. This Steve Twist shot depicts Simpson chasing Rod Coppins over Rothmans with the car still in pure white : this would be late '67, early '68. Note the rego...

by **j keast** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:44 am

Thanks for all the help owner ship from Dave Simpson to its end all adds up.
Was the car imported built up as a race car or done in NZ and by who.
I brought the car as a semi rolling car from Henry Hammond

by **kiwi285** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:07 pm

Here are a couple of photos taken at Baypark when the Mk I's were new and just seemed incredibly quick. They really sounded the beans for such small cars.
You will have to excuse the focus.

Not sure who the drivers are but sure someone will ID them.

August 1968

October 1968

by **bob homewood** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:04 am

Rod ....Griffiths were the Rootes group people ,Steve was working at Supertune for Bill when I came back from the South Island I nearly went and worked for Bill at that time .

by **GD66** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:07 am

Yes, it appeared nude at the first Bay Park meeting as well but flew.

by **Grant Sprague** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:08 am

I do remember Dave driving this with out all the advertising I was up with the big boys from Timaru it was a wills 6 hr or B&H ..I could not believe how good it sounded & went ....seemed fast in those days & it was ......Great photo Mike Thanks

by **kiwi285** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:52 am

Here is a photos of the car in David Simpson's ownership taken at Pukekohe in January 1969.

by **Grant Sprague** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 6:29 am

Rod & GD66.... yep i saw it go from a bog standard lotus twin cam escort to a good enough race car ..... Jim,s & the others were more hot rods with trick stuff ... Gary was under funded .. although Mt Cook came on board.....Gary never complained just drove like a champion on the day ... Rod I am not sure where it got to, Craig & I talked about its where abouts as he was very keen to get it as well

by **Rod Grimwood** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 4:05 am

Yea that's it Bob. Bill Norrish was a bloody nice guy, helped Steve and Rod Millen out to start as well, he had SuperTune and also San Pacer beach buggies. Bob, was it Bill who had the 'Rootes Group Speed Equipment or was that through Griffith Speed a offshoot of Griffith Motors.

Grant, where did Gary's car go after Stan, it was a neat car.

by **bob homewood** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:01 am

Yes from Dave Simpson to Crosbie ,That Escort was as said to have been for John Ward ,but via Bill Norrish ended up with David Simpson ,Bill of course had a previous sucesfull involvement with Dave when he won the Salon car championship in the Lotus Anglia

by **Jac Mac** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 12:39 am

That would be in the late Kevin Thompsons threads, he used southspeed as his name on this site.

j keast wrote:thanks I have a photo some where of Brian Crosbie in the car painted blue / white No 100 at a 1/4 mile sprint in
Gore early 70s

by **j keast** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 12:19 am

thanks I have a photo some where of Brian Crosbie in the car painted blue / white No 100 at a 1/4 mile sprint in
Gore early 70s

by **GD66** » Sun Jun 21, 2015 11:02 pm

In that case I believe the car went straight from Simpson to Crosbie. Gary used to punch above his weight in that Mount Cook car, recall some lurid motoring in it...

by **Grant Sprague** » Sun Jun 21, 2015 12:31 pm

You might have to dig a bit harder guys, Stan,s car was Gary,s [Mount cook airlines twin cam]

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