The Roaring Season

Neat build thread. Have owned my "64 Sprint for just over a year, 289, 4 speed. Great cars.

Great article Steve, I look forward to buying the book. A great era in New Zealand motor racing. The later car of Kieran Wills RX8 was my favourite. If you ever do vintage dragsters I have a heap of info on Hombre which I restored and own.

Rod Grimwood wrote:This is car as I last seen it with Mr Barnes. He goes alright as well. I think his brother or some one has another Capri V8 as well.

His son Shane has a racing Capri also (yellow and green colour). Barnesy senior recently retired and sold his Palmerston North bakery to Shane.

Aris wheel 2.jpg Aris wheel.jpg My other interesting wheel is a trade me purchase from a few years ago. This is one of the minilight wheels of Ari Vatanen's escort from the 1977 International rally.This was given to the previous owner in a service just outside Rotorua. This was a famous drive for ...

DSCF0625 - Copy.JPG Wheels are cool, especially ones with History. Shown above are my Berry & Chung (B/C) wheels which are going on my dragster restoration project Hombre. Only a dozen or so sets were made before the moulds were burnt when the foundry caught on fire. B/C were well known in NZ in ...

Berry and Chung (B&C) produced lots of performance inlet manifolds and a few sets of these front wheels. They are very rare now days.