The Roaring Season

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I'm not to sure how far this was from being finished when you saw it last Steve but I drove past it on Sunday.... nice!!!

I drove past the maserati on the way to the carterton tip a weekend or two back, looks great in the flesh...I had to do a double around to have a second look, it is the only time I have had a honk from another motorist in Carterton for holding up traffic!!!!

Even I cant see much worth saving there......maybe a set of welding gloves and pruning loppers!!!

Great history, my favourite is the Corvette!!!

Nasty fire, good on the guys for sticking with it to get it out!

Yeah, you are dead right about affordability of some of the early NASCAR type cars, at one point in time i would spend a huge number of hours on 'racingjunk.com' dreaming about what i could buy without mortgaging the house! As usual i just dreamed....

Gee, I need to get out from under that rock, I only live up the road and never knew it was on. Thanks for the pictures, its hard to not appreciate the mechanics of those old beasts!!

Steve Holmes wrote:Yeah Chris is a cool guy, I enjoyed meeting him. That Willys coupe of his used to be an old Allcomer racer back in the 60s, raced by Barry Pointon.

Yeah, cool car, cool guy. Chris and I have shared many a beer mucking about with that beast....

Had a text from a mate of mine, Chris, from Danniverke today. He said to buy a copy of your book as he's in it, thanks Steve, the man thinks he's more of a superstar now!!!!! Great book, it'll maintain pride of place on my coffee table for a while.....

Parts are no problem, for small parts I get em local, a couple of places supply parts at reasonable prices. larger bits I import myself. I had heard about the steering mod before, good to hear it works as people say it does, ill put it on my list for Santa!

Great that you have the wife on board with your hobby, it sure does make getting it done a heap easier. Nice choice of cars too, I feel privileged to have one first generation Camaro, it can only feel twice as good to have two!! Nice mods to, don't worry about people who knock em, while you are out ...

In my opinion it needs to be over measured distance, that distance had always been a mile for the overall record, so that is the distance that really should be covered. Freeman even admitted to an overheating car after the kilometre, so would he have made the mile? how many times has someone broken ...

How about a couple of pictures phranc?

Don't talk to me about whinging Poms!!! The Roaring Season has turned into a whinge season! If I have to pay rates to the wonderful new Auckland Council, I am more than happy to have some of it and of everybody else's go towards something I could actually get enjoyment out of. What they are ...

Ya no, as I just don't remember these cars, evn though I went to the , 75,76 and 77 GP meets, I was only born in August of 73 so this thread is, like one of many on this site, one that promotes a great sense of jealousy, that people remember the sights AND sounds of it. I remember as a kid, dad had ...

A bit more info here....

http://www.gerrymarshall.com/

.....600 race wins!!!! I hope I can live to enter 600 races.....legend. I purchased one of those $4.99 vhs tapes from the warehouse some years ago that had a feature on Gerry, bertha and its build, along with other 70's uk motorsport. I almost wore out the section that featured the man and his ...

The Pedal Cars on show this year for the first time were a great hit. Proud fathers escorted there kids to the start line, but what people didn't know was that there had beeen mechanics toiling away fine tub=ning the machinery. This one was having its brakes removed and all the bearings loosend and ...

bry3500 wrote:[video=youtube;CLpC8UWw_c0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CLpC8UWw_c0[/video]

I could see that going pear shaped after turn one!!!

Wow, that last photo is great! I'm not sure what the new owner has in mind for this beast but it almost seems a shame to repaint the body, it looks perfect how it is, in its 'as last raced' condition.....