The Roaring Season

John notes after Taupo- 1-Must tighten hood lining up above drivers head. 2-Must change white string holding ignition key/petrol cap key to a more blending colour. 3-Must view movie -Talladega Nights ... please add 4- Tighten Interior Mirror 5- (if possible) move throttle towards brake pedal to ...

Hyndman was a bit nervous before taking his very FIRST ride in a competition car. The Cambridge Monaro. (Always watched from the sidelines.) US Historic Sedan driver, Chad Raynal was there to try and calm me down ! [ATTACH=CONFIG]60028[/ATTACH] Once I got on board with veteran Australian driver ...

Go Slideways wrote:I'll be sure to ask him John.

Is there any more info on this Monza? I recall a similar car being advertised some years back.

I trust this won't upset too many people. Following a full examination of the Monza with Lee Dykstra and other members of the consortium, it has been decided to restore #1001 back to its first iteration as the car was presented at the 1975 August Road Altanta IMSA race, Horst Kwech driving ...

I would be interested in who was involved & where the rebuild of Red`s DeKon Monza took place following the Manfield crash plus general details of the repair itself if known & how long it took. Regards, Trevor Benton. Hi Trevor, the Monza was repaired by the Stone Brothers. I spoke with Jimmy ...

Thats it Steve, there was a race, I will check its either Wigram or Teretonga where Rothmans tried to prevent Red competing, British American Tobacco being the parent of Rothmans and Peter Stuyvesant amongst other brands. Rowan, there are 3 articles there, do you want scans of everything I have on ...

Steve Holmes wrote:This is the Monza on its NZ debut, at Bay Park, 1975.

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Any idea why the "Marlboro" is covered over?

From working through the Motor Actions from 1976 the change in paintjob happened between Ruapuna 7 Feb and Pukekohe 7 March. the white front remained until Bay Park at Labour Weekend in October, the loss of Marlboro sponsorship could be accounted for from any of the following, 1; Red had said he ...

Any chance of getting a scan of this article? mailto:?subject=&body=

George Bunce has provided all contact details for Bill. Thanks for looking. CCR

Hi Steve, Bill Minty is my uncle and still lives in Auckland. I have fond memories of cruising in DM 1713 as a young lad and being ferried to the race track in the car. Baypark and Levin both come to mind. Bill raced this and earlier another HT 350 coloured Verdoro? Green. Prior to the 350's he ...

Thanks heaps for these. I hope to pick-up Dekon 1001 from NSW in the next few weeks and will post images. CCR

John McKechnie wrote:Rowan,-
There is a regular on our threads who has Bill Mintys Bathurst Monaro.
He has been in touch with him recently, I will PM you with details

Thanks, CCR

Speaking with Jim Richards, he has a recollection that Bill Minty was the guy looking after the Monza and did the rebuild. Does anyone know the whereabouts of Bill Minty?

khyndart in CA wrote:Aussiemonza,
You are absolutely correct and I should have noted that.
I might have better photos of this day soon, as the original negatives have been located.

Ken

Very keen to see any new images. Rowan.

As Porsche was dominating the IMSA Camel series in 1974 Chevrolet came up with a proposal IMSA to provide domestic (USA) competition with their V8 Chevy Monza's. Horst Kwech and Lee Dykstra formed a company together called DeKon Engineering in July 1974.. The D was from Dykstra and the K was from ...

Hi John, great work. An inspiration. If you want to sell the Webers back to me, I need them for the Monza!

Yes Dale it did end up with a four valve engine, but first its earlier life. It was built in 1971 as a normal Twin Cam two valve engine to run in the Improved Production class, the main touring car class in Australia at the time. He then decided for 1972 to run as a Sports Sedan which allowed much ...

Hi Bailey. Over the last 10 years I have fully researched this car (and most IMSA Monza's) and feel qualified to comment on the DeKon chassis'. I have contributed too, and had much information supplied by the owners of 1002, 1004 and 1005 Dekon's with reference photo's and the like regarding these ...

These photo's were taken in 1988 after I re-built the car for then owner Jim Murcott.