The Roaring Season

Gentlemen, you omitted the fact that John McCormack also used the 2.5 Repco V8 in a Tasman race in 1971. It was shoehorned into an Elfin 600C chassis number 7011, where he finished in 10th place in the Warwick Farm 100 in 1969. Garrie Cooper himself (Mr Elfin)also used the engine once in an Elfin ...

Neil's sister is on Facebook. Adrienne. On Facebook check out " Canterbury motorsports in the 60s. Adrienne is Neil Doyle's wife (maybe former not sure) Neil's current whereabouts is from memory Mayfeild inland from Ashburton, in Central Canterbury. 018 may be able to supply you a current phone ...

I too would like to say farewell to one of MOTORSPORTS more interesting characters having met him a couple of times in the late seventies and had similar interests the history of the sport. We had a couple of great conversations, Farewell David we did not know each other that well but we may meet up ...

The M7A is missing the BRUCE McLaren logos on the side do they come with the model and why are they not applied. It seem strange for such a fab mode that Bruces team logo McLaren Cars and his name seperate are missing any explanation.

I remember this car at Wigram and thinking what a pile of shit it was even as a 15 year old the car was a joke the driver was a joke the entry to The Tasman Series was Fraud and im afraid Ron Frost and his merry men never done their homework on this bunch of wankers.

This is a beauty! The Sprague Motors tow truck has just recovered an inverted VW Combi. Ain't that old truck just beautiful! Compare this photo to that in Post 23. Its the same forecourt, but now a large corrugated iron tin shed replaces the old church that Ernie had Leo Leonard tear down. [ATTACH ...

Hi, I have now completed a list of most of the books, 500ish, still a few to add so please email me if you would like the list, [email="[email protected]"][email protected][/email] Please send me a full list im always collecting older MOTORSPORT books thankyou. my email is [email="[email protected] ...

I have two spare copies of THE OFFICAL 50 RACE HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX published in 1986 by R&T Publishing which contains detailed race reports from 1928 to 1985 the first AUSSIE FORMULA 1 race with hundreds of photos from the start even through the TASMAN SERIES years from 1964 to the ...

Dont let ALLAN McCULLY see this because the story of this TUB is a bit different it was not the SPARE TUB it was built up by the late FRED McCLEAN in the PDL workshops by FRED and ALLAN after FRED had left BEGG ENGINEERING so therefore not a BEGG not built at DRUMMOND no input from GEORGE. For the ...

Here's another of my favourites. It is Prost's Renault RE30 or 30B from the 1982 season. These models were commissioned by the factory and encased in a plastic presentation case. There is no model maker markings so they may have been an in house job. I got mine from a Renault executive in ...