The Roaring Season

Thats a great piece of the film - I seen that quite a few times over the years - I agree they were on a tight budget as for the Lamborgini - Mr Lamborghini himself lent 2 to the production company and he did not want any of his cars destroyed - Here is a letter to editior reference from a ...

Sorry to hear about those who worked for the magazine not been paid I was working on Jack to be my main sponsor of my website and he was seriously considering it ....so in hindsight it was blessing in disguise ... Jack reckoned my website was major factor that boosted sales of his magazine ...

Steve I think you got it wrong - Yes 2 Lamborginis were used and not crushed they were early chassis numbers both i believe surive - I heard this from one of the owners many years ago on the Lamborghini owners forum the car that crashed into a Bullzozer was a rare Lancia Flamina Zagato (That were ...

Hi all --its been a while. Historic Racing Driver Magazine produced in NZ is no more!! the last issue for NZ was #6 It was high quality job but too expensive to produce vs revenue streams made Only 6 issues of this fabulous magazine were produced here Jack Quin has sold the magazine and magazine ...

If you can give me a chassis number I might be able to see where it last went for sale (UK & US dealers since 70s were one first when selling exotic machinery included this in their advertising) I might have documented it

I did reply to this post but my post must have gone walk about ? Yep there is no year on this race . ..does put doubts on it as does lack of the story by mechanics but if it occured it may not have been 1972 it may have occured some years earlier but there are limits - the Fergusson 4wd Capri first ...

Don't get me wrong it has often crossed my mind that after searching for over 20 years for other articles on the event I have found no substantial backup and the fact yes indeed it does not help that the event was 1/ on in the traditional 'Xmas Issues" of the UK weekly Autocar 2/ the writer of the ...

Pallmall A voice from the past - Its being years since we talked - Are you still documenting Punch Magazines? Are you trying to be funny and having a laugh - I disagree No it was a Real race. Yes traditionally every Autocar i have documented since 1947 from cover to cover does include a Xmas test ...

I seem to remember Richard Petty took part in this race driving a 1972 Dodge Charger as one of the Nasacar competitors!

Hi Steve I used to have a scanned copy of the article (i documented the issue from sitting in National Library in Molesworth Street Wellington 1 wet Day in the School Holidays when i was a full time secondary teacher) - I don't have a copy of the magazine myself Back to Autocar article it was only ...

Tales from the Bottom of my Magazine Vault which may interest readers #1 in series I be posting unusual motor racing stories and commentary dug from my extensive indexing of car magazines in depth when i have been doing for the past 37 years! Iceland's Artic I million Before the Financial Crisis ...

Hi - I am Julian from http://www.carmagreviews.co.nz I have produced since 2006 on line a Detailed summary of contents on NZ Automotive magazines And from Publication date 1947 -2005 a detailed index of many of worlds car magazines from cover to cover (no just reading the contents here) I covered ...