The Roaring Season

crunch wrote:I understand Dave Abbott owns the two red ones, who owns the white one?

Believe it's THE Stewart family of Chch.....

Originally Posted by John McKechnie

Would that be Clyde Collins Fordina next to the Capri?

Mini.Mad wrote:Yup, it's a replica of it

Built and raced by his son Adam...

Sounds like a talk-back radio issue not one for a car / motorsport forum!
If I want to stay as the name (albeit minus the '1') the way most people know me that's my prerogative - afterall I could be Elvis P and wish to continue the myth!
BINZY and proud.....

Agree Haga.....I got sick of TV3 as by Sunday when they showed first race I already knew Saturdays race results so little point getting excited (and usually recorded it then fast forwarded much of it). Then Sundays race being shown at 1:00am Monday was useless as like many others had to work on ...

A fantastic video by the modern McLaren Cars for it's 50th year acknowledging the legacy of the late, great Bruce McLaren....
http://www.motorsportretro.com/2013/02/mclaren50/

Gulf theme & McLaren Can-Am selection...

Patrick - I can't confirm if a Bainbridge or not but can confirm it's not mine as mine is a S4 widebody chassis from the Steele's jigs they bought and has the S3 'styled' body to fit over it. The one on the cover looks a bit too compact by comparison....and the dash is different. I believe they MAY ...

GeebeeNZ wrote:Someone once told me the first car was called Ibis after the bird which he believed ate Lotus flowers. i.e. Ibis eats Lotus.

That's not unlike the story of why the De Tomaso Mangusta was so called....Mangusta = Mongoose & the Mongoose eats snakes--a.k.a. the Cobra!!!

Patrick - thanks very much....all interesting to me (selfishly!) as when bought it I didn't really comprehend it's history and have subsequently enjoyed pulling together snippets of info.
Lindsay

Please PLEASE can the old dramas not be dredged up again! (But this from Patrick seems to confirm some previous) Old dramas???? You're not confusing interpretation of Lotus history (and NZ's part, or otherwise, in it) of the other posts versus the history of Steele Brothers and their place in NZ as ...

Great reading Patrick - thanks for posting this. Out of purely self-interest (as I own the sole completed Bainbridge 907 car) do you have any information on both the Bainbridge transaction / saga and cars?? I have pieced some things together from likes of old owners of it as wekll as via Paul (from ...

As was once proclaimed (although I'm substituting Weasels with Turkeys) - "Eagles may soar but Turkeys don't get sucked in to jet engines!!!!!!".........

However click on the following link and you can see that not all your citizens agrees with your statements in this thread: http://www.lotus7.co.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1537 Ha - history repeats! That's Paul & I, from this Forum, having a discussion (debate?) on that Forum about bits & pieces ...

Hi John, What is the context of the CAMS section? Is it to do with the eligibility of Steele Bros Lotus S4's for Group D Production Sports in the late 70's - early 80's? CCC It was probably because CAMS knew that the later Steele cars had the 907 engine, wasn't exactly the best design for a race ...

Awesome photos, god it would be nice to see that many F5000's racing in anger over here. Good to see some mighty Mini's chasing the big fella's. Thanks Ian Think the Shannons meeting at Phillip Island in March will probably have a bigger field than at Hampton Downs this weekend AND think if the ...

According to a yearbook I've got; '74 winner was Laurence Bruce in a Mustang (Trevor Crowe 2nd in Chev Corolla). '75 was Bruce Bellis in V8 Cortina with Bruce Jenner 2nd, Laurence Bruce 3rd '76 was Kevin Haig in the Camaro with Jenner 2nd again, Rod McElrea 3rd '77 indeed some bloke in a Capri ...

The only way that the rear could roll was for the chassis to flex, or for the suspension points to yield. I scrapped the forward facing arms and fitted new trailing links, together with a Panhard rod. This with other correction s, turned it into a motor car. Just what was Chapman thinking about? I ...