The Roaring Season

The bikes ran two races at each of the International car meetings run at Totara Street in 1963 when world champ Jim Redman rode his Honda 250 four, and '64, then ran a motorcycles-only meeting there in 1965, dominated by the Hamilton rider Bryan Scobie who went on to race cars in latter years. After ...

Great website about the man and his cars at

http://www.petergiddings.com

Hi John, it might be worth running a line of enquiry past Norjo Kawasaki in Chch, they still exist and they ran more Kawa 750 H2s than anybody back then, although to my memory their gun rider Owen Galbraith turned out regularly on a blue one. Nevertheless if your gold one had a big bingle at ...

I also saw somewhere recently that Brendon Hartley will be joining Dixon at Chip Ganassi Racing next year, quite a power duo ! Not sure what CGR are doing for budget, after a long term and very profitable partnership Target are withdrawing their sponsorship at the end of the year and redirecting it ...

I think like facebook they are a law unto themselves, chainy.

fastback wrote:Is the Farina no 31 Graham Watson's ?

You would think so with that color scheme !

John McKechnie wrote:Is that a Jamie A creation in front of the Anglia 117 ?

Think it's Ross Baker's Heron Mk 2/3 Daimler.

There is info a-plenty on the Hoare Ferrari in David Manton's book of surprises.

Spotted on the NZ Car-related street scenes fb page. Allan Dick has kindly added a caption there.

Good to see, never seen any footage of the Custaxie in action : it really worked pretty well.

I have to admit to being disappointed GD66 when I read this as I did not know I had this effect on you or was this possibly meant for a certain other person ? Ha ! No mate, love your stuff and am envious of your full and varied life in motorsport, but that certain other person's constant sniping ...

It's just never, ever over for you, is it ?

A stark reminder why I've had you on block for so long.

Helio deserved to win it after his wicked passes of Chilton and Sato in the closing laps, outrageous !

He must have filed that after the Saturday of the Winton round, it's actually 9/10 : SVG 4, Scotty Mac 3, FabCo 2.
And Mostert won on the Sunday at the Island for the sole Aussie win. Been a great series so far, and not just for the skewed results.

Nice !

Great stuff !

I remember seeing Kirk F White's name on the wing of David Hobbs' 1972 Tasman Series McLaren. This Daytona yarn about the Penske Sunoco 512, amongst many others, is covered in Kirk F White's bio, a long and very interesting set of stories which is updated every few weeks. Takes a while to motor ...

Allan wrote:Jim Palmer ran a Porsche at one stage. Where did that car come from?

Jim Palmer bought Brian Foley's Chesterfield Porsche 911.

Can't take pics for the future either Nigel. Even you aren't that good... I wouldn't have seen the original message from that source as they are blocked - unless I really want to read them, which I don't. Your excellent pics probably do more to promote these meetings than most seem to realise. The ...

Lovely colour Milan, are they from slides ? And would that be Alistair in attendance beside Bill Caldwell's Brabham ?