The Roaring Season

hi Al....spent a lot of time around Hamlin & Charles during this time what was your brothers surname ???

bry3500 wrote:you guys are on to it - thanks, the folks at the NZ National Library would be impressed I reckon

actually...to be accurate...the Imperral was built by Ian McRae in Taita originally with a motor-cycle power plant...Ray fitted the Imp motor. The car then passed into Terry Leighton's ownership

bry3500 wrote:what and who?

probably Ray Hare,builder of the Imperral...on the cover of NZ specials book by Vercoe...photo taken at Houghton Bay hill-climb

I believe Paul is living in ChCh

No, seems it didn't take me long to realise I wasn't going to be a top-flight photographer (like Len Ransom, for example). Latest Lancer pic I have is from 1967 (which for some reason won't attach) does anyone know what happened to Len's photo collection....there must be thousands around somewhere ...

do you have any later photos of when I was competing....Peter is still into cars on the Gold Coast....manufacturing and selling kits of GT40's/Cobras....probably the largest kit supplier in OZ...sells lots to the US but the currency exchange not helping at present.

Dave...you are a legend....where did that photo come from....doesn't Peter look young lol...re the For Sale advert...by that time I had been in the UK since Dec 1972....don't recognise the name???

Hi Russ...long time....the guy I sold it to was Larry Carney(not sure the surname is right)...would be nice if it still survives..it was built like a brick you know what...regds Perry

They were originally bolted on, but I think reworked by the time the above photo was taken it always had rear bodywork covering the tyres...originally with a boot which was shortened to a flat cut off...I have photos taken not long after Peter finished the build at Admiral Hill-climb...during my ...

Thanks Dave....only recently found this site....good to see your memory isn't fading with age...more than I can say for some....isn't it amazing how our era has more interest than the current cars....can you imagine in the future trying to be keen on finding 50 or so current v8 supercars that all ...

I looked at the Heron Daimler with a view to buying it. That was when I was at university so must have been 1968,69 or 70. It was in Wellington (I seem to recall with Colin Roberts who I think raced a Mini?). It was a rolling chassis. It was reputed to have had some Lotus 33 bits in it (rear ...