The Roaring Season

Spot on Steve. I was the guy who was asked to move the engine back. I hated doing it to this original car. Ross Cameron owned it at the time and we cut the firewall and essentially moved it back and inserted a 12 inch spacer to join everything back up. Sorted out brake and clutch as cheaply as we ...

He brings back fond memories of the 70s and 80s. He was a very likable sportsman and a great person to be with.

Sorry John, but, it was designed to run in the original 0-4200 class ShellSport class when the definition of ShellSport was essentially what became Sports Sedans, so therefore the color scheme as when you got it. The way I understand it is that the car was built to run in Shellsport but due to new ...

Don sold the car to Craig "The Wizard" Hool who successfully ran a 13B turbo in the car for some seasons. He made many changes over the car's career as is the norm. Somehow the late Dean Kirk obtained the car and made some unfortunate and radical body mods, which will be hard to remedy. A friend ...

Hi Rod, I sold it to Don Grindlay of Christchurch who used it for a short period before moving on to a RX7. As you know Rex had it built by Peter Bruin, Bill Shiells etc to race in Shellsport. However rotary's were subsequently ruled out by those in power so Rex traded it on to me. I competed very ...

Was very involved in the sport during the 70,s and 80,s. The times when you could compete with minimal budget (none) and enjoy every moment of it without too much BS. Rallied/hillclimbed several RX3's and raced the ex Findlay RX3 in OSCA with sponsorship from DIC (almost never got caught- DIC that ...