The Roaring Season

RA5 is with Errol Norris in Christchurch, It is complete and He has owned it for many years and I understand is making some progress to getting it back together

Roger the link to the online version of the article is attached
Richard
https://drive-my.com/en/test-drive/item/3762-mick-walsh-discovers-the-kiwi-built-standard-engined-ra-vanguard-special.html?tmpl=component&print=1

Ray Bell wrote:That would be the one...

It also had the trailing arm front end, didn't it?

but not with rubber bands!

Yes, but not with rubber bands!

An excellent article in classic and sports car up until Grant Cowie is mentioned then it goes totally off the rails. The car was not built by Mike Courtenay, I built the car. Totally, everything from the research, the chassis frame, body work and engineering. The only thing that I outsourced was the ...

On further inspection I don't think it is the ex Seaman car, as I think Ramponi shifted the front spring outboard of the chassis on his car. Any idea of its pedigree?

Love that ex Seaman Delage.

Sky sport clip from last Wednesday night http://youtu.be/m-blzIA0cTU And before someone corrects me. The RA Vanguard won the 1952 South Island beach racing championship, not the NZ Beach championship. The car in fact never raced in the North Island. In 1951 it was timed over the standing quarter at ...

I can just see the local constabulary allowing all these old boy racers to tour in these machines. And imagine the revenue that could be gathered from all those stop signs!

Some great NZ footage

http://media-src.nzonscreen.com/0000/3321/4311.Apple.0831.HI.m4v

An interesting video of an Ausy track Lobethal.

https://vimeo.com/83756140

Here's a great ride that I came across, GT40 in wet, a real handful

[video=youtube;1jF__B1xpJY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1jF__B1xpJY[/video]

Here's a great ride that I came across, GT40 in wet, a real handful

[video=youtube;1jF__B1xpJY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1jF__B1xpJY[/video]

Now in Dunedin (I believe) is the Buckler that I once owned. It was reputed to be one of the last of the marque it was a Mk17 which originally had an Ashley Laminates body with two transverse rear seats. the car was apparently originally built up in UK with a BMC front suspension. Bruce Sutcliffe ...

"He (Moore) was a speedway man and his idea of getting around bends was about hanging it out on the corners, whereas Hec's suspension wouldn't do that.... so it tucked a wheel under and somersaulted, killing Les. Stu Thanks for you input Stu, I too had heard Jacks theory about the suspension mods ...

David McKinney wrote:I think the two guys on the right are probably just spectators. The guy next to them is how I remember Jack Brewer, and it may be Les Moore on the far left

Thanks David, good that we have access to your "memory banks"

I found this over in another thread: [ATTACH=CONFIG]17737[/ATTACH] Thanks Steve, an excellent photo, I do have a copy ion my collection, it would have been in the Les Moore days, but I don't know the identity of the 4 people. Wouldn't I just love that Bedford truck in the background, make a great ...

[quote="Powder"] I believe that was probably the "transitional" for want of a better name car that was built after mine to develop the "Vanguard Special" twin cam car. IT had genuine rubber band suspension (stationers rubber bands) The final car (owned by Errol Norris in Christchurch) has the VW ...

Thanks Nigel for the great pics from Roycroft.

Here is another Wigram photo, which shows the car on 6 spoke wheels, plus windscreen and radiator grill. I have always thought that this was 1952, though I would love to have someone confirm, or correct me.

To add even further confusion the "Wet Paint" photo shows totally different wheel type, certainly not the fabricated spoke type that gave so much trouble first with 6 spokes and later with 12. Thanks Stu for your input.....Can we assume that in those days unlike today, all trailers were legal ...