The Roaring Season

We did take the 100mph limiter off at Snetterton earlier in the year ................with 3.5 tons over the front axle and 1.5 over the rear stopping after reaching speeds truly into supercar territory was well interesting. They tried an "open" class in Europe for a bit but it was canned on safety ...

Not me , I was spannering but thought you might enjoy a different kind of "race car"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ECxA4Cw3dE&feature=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWK_Nn6CWas

Not about the Commodore but another Hoffman/McLaren link [​IMG] The McLaren C8 was a Group C racing car built in 1982 by Peter Hoffman, using a 1972 M8F chassis and Chevrolet 454 V8 engine. The engine proved to be fragile, leading to the car often retiring from races. It started racing in 1983 with P ...

A true legend, a gentleman and hero............Chris has won his last race and passed to the great cheqeured flag in the sky.
Rest well Chris.

This was taken at Ruapuna not long after Steve & Neville had built the car , if memory serves me it was at a drag meeting, I think Rod McElrea was there too. Might have some more pictures somewhere.

and yes it was Jude's shopping trolley Mitsubishi Celeste.

Found this very brief excerpt from another site The AUST/31 etc. was done by Reg. Papps and sons when they did the '' update'' to Lotus 31 sort of specs. The rear uprights had been modified by Papps's by welding a new magnesium top section to the existing Lotus 20 uprights which during the course of ...

Top left picture
A very selfish "amatuer" race mechanic photo, driver/owner by right rear wheel, mechanic sat in cockpit "resting"

Can you ship to the UK ?

Does this qualify ?

A genuine legend of N.Z Motorsport and beyond. All our best wishes from this side of the pond to Ian and family.

Annoyingly its not on the website any more but there are these ? (I will try and track it down though) http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/motorsport/race-cars/tin-tops/1973-ford-capri-2-8-gr2/5213874 Found it but on a different website https://www.motorsportauctions.com/index.php?a=2&b=33610

There's one up for sale here at the moment £260,000 with spares package.

The lady can drive , but as for Top Gear, more like Low Gear or No Idea

Love the really energetic piano playing. Cracking video and was played "sound up" rather loud :-)

ERC, Your weather forecast is slightly inaccurate , thats is Scorched,Soaked and Frozen all in the same day !!.

or this version ?

You mean this one :-)

Found this......


[video]https://youtu.be/kIARp05uzvY[/video]

Not in the same league as the previous posters , but this is my daily driver & "toy", although now painted gloss black.

Sorry no photo's at this stage (was asked to not take any) I have spent the day in a workshop in North East Essex, in the workshop there are some interesting cars. 2 Lola T330's 1 McLaren M8E/D/F (possibly) 1 Palliser (alleged) The Palliser is just a tub and a box of bits , The M8 is interesting and ...