The Roaring Season

Dad 4CLT Maserati GP car , local hill climb , Timaru, the car had an up grade nose cone for this climb . Proud to be one of the Sons of this man , a hard bugger but a great teacher in more ways than one sadly missed .....

Great photos mate , thank you .

Glenvale 200 Bay Park

Thank you Ken , how cool is all this VERY...Thank you for sharing this .

50th Anniversary Level 2018 little pocket rocket

Replica...

Ken , I just missed you & got yr note .........ps, when you mentioned might catch up at Taupo I was racing at the 50th at levels that same weekend , got to drive a mates laser turbo , very interesting weekend never raced on that extension and found it quite interesting the challenge was exciting ...

Gary & Red Levels

Levels late 60,s

Replica Mk 3

I have another Brother Wayne , he is between Gary & I in age , Wayne had a wee play in racing , he won a 30 min production race at Ruapuna if my memory serves me correct [in ex B&H victor] , shortly after that Ernie put him in the deep end with the GTHO at Wigram , Wayne complained of rear brake ...

Great photos thanks for sharing

Gary & Grant Xmas meeting Auckland 2018...............

Beautiful

Thank you Terry & Ken , what a great read , I never knew all this . Take into account though , John spent many years in UK & went quiet , but people in my era will remember some stuff , but not many as I said I learnt more about him while living there & at one point living next to Hounslow where he ...

I had not really heard much about John until I arrived in London in the mid 70,s, I started to read auto sports, during my lunch times, John was way way up there with his connections in F1 & an engine builder [driver] , very highly respected , was mentioned often in that Mag for his many attributes ...

Sounds great , shows how strong this class is , no pressure , no points , no championship , no ego , no drama we can come & go & still good feild of cars , will take my little escort to manfeild I think we have more cars entered there , so see you there guys have fun .

Thank you for sharing guys & Paul great photos etc , custodians love that word , yes that goes for every thing I guess , My build is a bit of a biggy as started with just a roller & an engine in bits thats it , no excuses except TIME & collecting ALL the correct bits & pieces not to mention ...

John to be fair , lots had issues with pad & shoe material , plus cheap discs , some not mechanically minded , BUT once they were on top of the problem they were away , I would go to the annual committee meetings & have a good answer to a lot of issues but got slammed down by the ones with the ...

Pre 65 Rules seemed to work ok back then [sort of lol ] , BUT a year or two after this photo it went a bit pear shaped.....only thing was we were running out of good 289 blocks & heads [when they went pop it was a $40k fix for some back then as they would rev to around 8000 rpm & want to keep going ...