The Roaring Season

Hi there,first post after having my dad point me to this site tonight over Skype. Long story short,I am trying to find out what happened to the Raycroft Escort,driven by Dave Waldron. My father,Garry Williams helped build it years ago and all I can remember of it is seeing it at Wigram in the pits ...

The Waldron Mk 1 Escort will be appearing at the Skope 2020
2nd- 3rd Feb, also Levels the following weekend, will be run by the restorer,Nick Donaldson from Christchurch. It was retrieved from Auckland a number of years ago, has been verified as the original by Dave Waldron.

markec wrote:Its back home in ChCh

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Escort has changed sheds with Nick Donaldson doing the rebuild

Hoping someone in here might know what happened to the Dave Waldron/Mike Johnson/Neville Agass MK1 Escort Turbo.I posted on the OSCA forum when that was still up and Evan helped out a bit by passing on Nevilles' email address.He was a great help and suggested I contact Grant Brennan as he was sure ...

Finn "Alan Findlayson" made it over from Aussie for the funeral service, its been about 15 years since I last saw him. Introduced him to Terry Marshall.

Leo Leonard was present at the service, you could have had many memories tpo share with him. He's still alive and well in Timaru, still gets the overalls on each day.

The 300z was originally used as a Targa car, it did 2 Targa's before being semi retired to Classic racing. Devopement was still being done through to 2015.

Many of you wont realise that the RX7 was a USA sourced car, acquired by Bob Slade who packaged it up and sent it over from California. John built the car up from scratch as it was ex road car body shell when he received it. It was always left steer, at the time there were very few on NZ's roads.

Jacmac, the Escort shell is in safe hands in Ch Ch,it sits along side the Ron McPhail one.

A service for Ozzo was held in Christchurch on the 31st December at 2.00pm. A large gathering of many of his old freinds and asociate"s were present in large numbers including some from the north Isalnd along with Finn ( Alan Finlayson ) who came over from Aussie.As John was originally from Dunedin ...

RIP Brian Lister

I knew he was close to passing but nevertheless still a shock. I am hoping Russ Cunningham will post a eulogy because he was a very close friend of David's, stayed with Dave in UK. Both guys had (or in Russ's case have) a huge cache of NZ Motorsport history. A great loss. Unfortunately Russ ...

Ray's saying is very appropriat, given the negative, no comprimise attitudes he and others are dealing with, regarding cages, MSNZ employee's in his attempt to get something that is stronger than those recomended by MSNZ, but cannot be certified.Mr Silcock is another one in the same position.

If you look at photos from the recent Phillip Island meeting, advertised and run as an Historic car meeting, you will find interesting fields of well mixed and matched classes running together. I grew up through the V8 era, started like many with Hotrodding, evetually went on to help on the ex ...

Ray, you are only one of many with thoughts of getting away from motorsport, sadly there are 100's who have already taken that course of action. I know of 5 that wouldn't complete scrutineering, deciding in the heat of the moment to withdraw their cars from competition there and then and leave the ...

The point I am making is that the issue is not new, many people are not prepared to go back to MSNZ as it seems to them to be like bashing ones head against a brick wall. Many just find an alternative form of recreation to participate in, something that is user friendly, without major obsticles to ...