The Roaring Season

Good to see another one saved and restored. [ATTACH=CONFIG]49745[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]49746[/ATTACH] Going to have to re-do the front flares by that pic, they are mounted about 2'' too low on front guards- When molds/patterns were built RR was made to do LF and LR for RF with front portion ...

Car is still with current custodian in canterbury., its going to have issues with front flares/tire contact unless they leave it at that height. Original had them mounted about 2" higher, was designed to use flare from RR on LF & LR on RF with front portion fabricated from steel on each side.

Peter Woods also bought a Shelby like this as an insurance write off that had a bit of a front end prang- nothing major, but the Shelby factor was too hard for the insurance company to overcome at the time. Probably helped Woody to get into the USA import scene procuring parts for it. His was blue ...

ERC wrote:Methinks there should be a maximum width rule...

Cars, Tires, or Driver, or all three?

Plug and Play, sponsorship from the respective electricity suppliers, might remove the need to hit car club members in the pocket again to keep the motor sport coffers topped up.

Ask Jac-Mac? !! quote "Would this number plate be allowed in NZ? Sister car to the well known 'BUMBLE', that our own John Hudson of BMW fame has been known to have worked on in recent times. Cadwell Park probably 1980. [color="#0000CD"]In that case why not, there is no attached mention of skin ...

Our last race meeting for the season is this weekend at HD, Legends of Speed. We look as if we will have a combind grid of close to 20 which is great for a smaller meeting. We have quite a few new cars joining HSC, a Triumph Dolomite Sprint, ex Aussie Group C car now in NZ and another Mk1 Escort ...

Oldfart wrote:.
The Lotus 30 (?) helmet looks a bit modern for 1980 I thought??

When I worked at Charlton Auto Woody was importing full face helmets from ~1973 onwards. xtra, Gurney had one at 1968 Indy 500, Google suggests first made in 1967.

Jack- The McCoomb/Hargreaves V8 Mk1 Cortina- is this the one that Gerald put on its roof after tripping over Grant Aitkins ? [color="#0000FF"]Yes, I believe so, in the sweeper coming onto main straight at [old] Ruapuna. There is a multi frame pic of the accident elsewhere ( might have been you who ...

[color="#0000CD"] Newspaper/ Motoraction? clipping of OSCA champ final round at Timaru. Car is at front of pic, was predominately white with red/blue? secondary strips etc. This is the ex Nazer car, Kevin also had a later second car in early 80's that came from UK as a race car shell IIRC that was ...

John McKechnie wrote:Both have 327 Chevs in them.

Last of the ISO's had 351c.

Correct (I have since labelled it). Apparently this car is now in Europe. It had me baffled initially but having accessed the race programme, then gone Googling - as you do - it was yet another interesting diversion. I knew it looked like the Ford but also knew it wasn't one, but initially knew ...

mk4 Zephyr back end (independent) should be ok if you can find one as they all ended up in speedway saloons. Couple or three of those floating round here somewhere, Rover 3500 might be better, taller ratio. Most MKIV's were 3.7/3.9. If you want a full transaxle assy Porsche 924/928 or the small ...

I don't know what the strange combination of camera/settings/light/film have confluenced together in these pics from Teretonga 1970, but the soft hue is really quite remarkable. There have been a few others from the same set on TRS over the last couple of years including two Begg FM2s sitting side ...