The Roaring Season

Update on the March of Bill Stone Chassis now sandblasted ready to carry out the repair work. I have made contact with Martin Lucas who has given me some good "intel" Bill passed to him on their days together racing and some photos from Mrs Stone. Once I get the chassis repaired I can plan the ...

March FFord as imported dismantled and now stripped sandblasted

Out of curiosity why was a deal not thrashed out when the $$ was being discussed with UK HQ for the car to come back every so often to NZ
1 HD festivals
2 Bruce McL anniversaries
3 Royal visits
4 any time an old McL driver wants to drive it on kiwi soil

Out of curiosity why was a deal not thrashed out when the $$ was being discussed with UK HQ for the car to come back every so often to NZ
1 HD festivals
2 Bruce McL anniversaries
3 Royal visits
4 any time an old McL driver wants to drive it on kiwi soil

Don't be too dis heartened by the "shambles" for Historic racing in NZ. Look at exactly what you have there 1 3 million people and how many race licences holders there then compare to Oz 20 million UK 65 million EEC 733 million USA 315 million so based on a pure percentage say 1% of population have ...

yes the cunning plan is to get down for that
of course need some $ to restore car in 6 months so its ready to ship in time
i dont consider myself old but i can sure Fart and i have some FFords amongst other cars

I have bought the ex works March 708/ 718 that Bill raced in the UK to restore- i agreed to buy it a year ago once i had found out about it.
My plan is to rebuild it and come to NZ with it and do one of your festival weekends or 2

yes Wally Pratt was his real name and he was an old guy when he sprinted his Fiat Abarth 1000 tt in the 70s and 80s i do recall seeing his name in Autosport obituary Times have changed and he would never have dreamt his names would be used to chastise and ridicule people Its the same as making the ...

yes Wally Pratt was his real name and he was an old guy when he sprinted his Fiat Abarth 1000 tt in the 70s and 80s i do recall seeing his name in Autosport obituary Times have changed and he would never have dreamt his names would be used to chastise and ridicule people Its the same as making the ...

Yes i heard that CAMS ( morons of motorsport) have ditched FFord without consulting anyone in favour of F4 thats means now someone has to go and buy new cars ship to Oz and get a series running
best thing the Ozzies could do is not buy any cars and kill it off now and stick to FFord

Rush was a good film as far as the average punter is concerned I supplied 3 cars for the Film and i knew what was going on with the filming scenes cars etc as my buddy was also driving the truck taking cars to the sites to film scenes These cars where used mainly for the actor drivers in the cockpit ...

Many Italians used non de plums to go racing some to avoid family riot of them racing against parents wishes ( as jackie stewart did with A N Other at his first few races) some presume to deter kidnapping (rife in the 60s/70s) no one knew who they were we had an Austrian racer Fritz Glatz race for ...

Ive not seen Simon race his dads RT4 car but I'm told its much the same way
Anyway he is Irish and they are as mad as hatters!

For Sale Just restored raced once 1989 Reynard FFord car lots spent on rebuilding the car new this that n the other gearbox rebuilt new bodywork belts fore system in date etc Many spare parts full car set of suspension £14500 FOB Too late to ship now for NZ Historic festival Jan 2014 but buy this ...

Impwagon You have some incorrect info for the Thruxton chicane photo Your photo shows Homewood leading Jeff Ward in the Greatham ( space frame) Imp the Mini is I am sure 1300 cc car of Phil Winter the Mini countryman is not shown of Ginger Marshall this foto is around 75/6 as I am sure in 77 John ...

My mechanics knows a man that works at AM racing and i was told some facts of the accident some I will not repeat. The car had got out of shape driver applied full throttle to bring the car back with full opposite lock but it had dropped a wheel off the track and the low ride height stuff car meant ...

It is looking good for you guys down there one thing that came up in discussion over here was the Ford contribution or lack of it and the notion that Formula Ford should be re branded Formula Kent whilst the old crossflow motor is used and ditch Ford name as they have brought no "beers to the party ...

Yes Howard i know Colin Vandervell was a front running driver in his day in various categories
after F3 he had a go at Touring cars in a Capri and then i think he decided to concentrate on business

Colin Vandervell was GAV son and he raced in British F3 in the 1970s I also know the daughter "Miki " married " below" her status and was cut off from the family and she was racing Minis at Brands Hatch in the early 1970s with her husband. Their children went Karting in the UK and 2 of the girls ...

March cars are classic to rebuild/replicate ( i know of 1 person good at making 761 cars!)
McLaren M8s are another car that have been crashed rebuilt in period and then the old tub 5-20 years later is rebuilt up as the car