The Roaring Season

Remember well going to the Lola factory in 1974 to assemble a new 332 for Brian McGuire.Pete Bryan.

To be honest I don't really know and I don't know if he knew what he was talking about either. I guess it had something to do with strengthening the shell as it was a time before roll cages of course. I've seen the Alan Mann car in the UK and had a good look at the Fahey car during restoration and ...

Milan Fistonic wrote:Not so much a Super Van - rather an ordinary van with a Super Driver. Steve Millen in 1972.

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Top corner Bright road. I competed that day also.Peter.

It was built by John Welch, and in conjunction with X-Trac was one of, if not THE first 4WD rallycross cars. Mk3 Escort bodyshell, turbocharged BDA with around 600hp, it was pretty much the template for todays rallycross cars. At the time it would outdrag just about anything in a 0-60 race Conrad,I ...

Thanks for all the help owner ship from Dave Simpson to its end all adds up. Was the car imported built up as a race car or done in NZ and by who. I brought the car as a semi rolling car from Henry Hammond What I have seen somewhere was that there were 3 std twin cam road car imported new in 1968 ...

John McKechnie wrote:Just a question- diagonal bar on roll cage runs differently, any ideas here?

In period on works Escorts the diagonal ran both ways as to suit the co drivers reclining seat.The seat was able to fully recline so the driver /co driver was able to rest on long touring stages .Peter .

Give me plenty of advance warning of the date Malcolm. The Waitangi Rally was the first rally that I competed in while living in the north and a few years later Waitangi was also the last event prior to returning south. Great memories of the place I was specking to Allen Strong last night and he is ...

Give me plenty of advance warning of the date Malcolm. The Waitangi Rally was the first rally that I competed in while living in the north and a few years later Waitangi was also the last event prior to returning south. Great memories of the place I was specking to Allen Strong last night and he is ...

Grant Sprague wrote:escothvn....... I think the mini might have been 1963 I was 9 lol & Ernie had the dark 3 entered [mk3]

Grant,I went with Dad and Iwould have been 12,Rod has owned the car since his uni days early 70s. Peter

Yep ike the McLaren Mini Cooper........ fighting with the NZ big boys of the day , I think that was the opening round of Puke ... cheers Bry I was looking at one of the McLaren minis down the road from work the other day .looks great. This is the green/white one that was his first one that he raced ...

Thanks Rod for posting photos,its a waste of good fishing time to find out how to post photos.Call in any time to look at my scrap book as I keeped allsorts for the early 70s. Jills a good cook and also knows more about BDA escorts than most woman,She had to to live with me.Pete.

Thanks Carl for posting the pics of the Woolmark car. Can we copy and keep them for our own file?

cheers Pete
from sunny Whangarei

Should be a great event.Peter.

Did this MG come to NZ in the late 60s/70s as I worked on a Similar car in Whangarei that had a grey Holden engine.around 1968/1971.

Escort GN9772 I think is Brian Watkins ex Rocky Cribb. Peter.

Our RS1600 featured in the 1970 AVO Brochure" Day One" having the arches fitted at AVO. Have recently had contact with one of AVOs early employees and this is what I received from him when asking about our car's time at AVO. "The timing all fits in because that was when we set up the crib for ...

Hi Ross,Please keep on posting more photos,great.Would you have any of a 105e Anglia AW757 in events in the Auckland area that I did in 1971/1973 period.Cheers Peter Bryan.

There is Heron in my workshop that gets pushed in and out each day that has been there for years.Most of it is there but needs resto.
A reasonable offer may temp the owner to sell it.
Peter.

This is a request on behalf of Alan Strong in Whangarei who owns Possum's first works Subaru. Alan is trying to get as many cars that were driven in competition by Possum Bourne together for display at the Possum Bourne Rally in September at Pukekohe. Alan is very interested to locate or receive ...

Vanwall 30 Thanks Rod for posting these pics, brings back memories, Len Butler in the photo above was my boss when I worked in the engine test dept. of Vandervell Products in late 73 early 74. Unfortunately due to the oil crisis and 3 day working week we were unable to run the engines for 24hours ...