The Roaring Season

Clark Proctor in his March 73A-1 at the 2017 NZ Festival of Motor Racing. R.I.P. [ATTACH=CONFIG]66823[/ATTACH] RIP Clark. Always the entertainer especially in stockcars. When he bought back his tank stockcar, he came around home and bought a 221 Windsor and parts. He arrived in his Rolls royce with ...

Clark Proctor in his March 73A-1 at the 2017 NZ Festival of Motor Racing. R.I.P. [ATTACH=CONFIG]66823[/ATTACH] Rip Clarke. Always the entertainer, in stockcars anyway. When he bought back his tank stockcar he came around home and bought a couple of 221 windsors engines off me. He arrived in his ...

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Wow amazing scenes. That stack of Boss 429's .

Number one on the list of equipment was to be the Fire Tender. Originally this was mounted on a trailer along with buckets containing blankets soaked in a special solution to wrap around drivers in the event they suffered burns. This was towed around New Zealand to all meetings with the 1955 Ford ...

nigel watts wrote:I've just seen a post on facebook concerning the death of Dan Gurney. RIP Dan - fly like an eagle.

What a loss, such an inspirational man . The all American racer. RIP Dan Gurney.

Thanks John , as a kid I remember seeing the 56 and the F100 outside the Railside Ave panelshop in the 70's.

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..... and after. Was it rebuilt?

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Keolin Pitiroy ? He was on Waka Huia one Sunday morning a couple of months ago talking about this car.
Maybe it became the Junovich car ?

Colin Stuart or Dave Macdougall ?

The Bizzarrinis and Bocar XPS was a very nice era of car, The 1964 Kellison ASTRA J-5 Coupe Sports Car was an interesting design, This was the Mk2, the mk1 had single headlights, I believe was designed in 1959. very revolutionary for the time. [ATTACH=CONFIG]44170[/ATTACH] Yes I like the Kellison's ...

Not sure who took this photo,but its a good one. . Bruce Robertson GTHO[ATTACH]24198[/ATTACH] Just browsing the archives , had a chat with Bruce Robertson at Waikaraka clubrooms after a meeting a couple of years ago about his 69 Mustang with Holman Moody 427 with webers etc. He said he swapped this ...

Amazing recollections guys, keep them coming. Both the Dodge Coronet and '69 Mach 1 would have been rare cars in NZ during the '70s. Here are examples of each from earlier chapters from the Allan Porter Collection. Might be completely different cars to those mentioned above but just thought I'd ...

The dangers of working from memory......... Dale you are right in thinking NYE but 1970 is too early, we think it was 73 or 4 .It was a big deal in the day made the papers. The Shelby (which was a KR500) was chased all round east Auckland before the crash. It was NOT the car in Kaspas yard. That ...

Most of the FEs I had were in need of rebuilds, some I built. It was a long time ago, they were all sold off in 1989 Some that I had: 406 old race engine with x bolt mains adjustable rockers teflon gudgen buttons, This was a blown engine I bought 428 SCJ that I rebuilt with 2 x 4bbl lowriser (that ...

Fantastic thread Paul. Does this mean you had 11 race prepped FE's ? 427;s 428's 390's ?

Steve Holmes wrote:I love this Mustang, owned by Brett Wilson. Where is it now?

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I read on the net somewhere that the 428 in this car came from a wrecked Shelby GT500.
Crashed in East Tamaki ? Maybe the rollbar came from the same car.