The Roaring Season

Does anyone know what happened to either of these Tom Donovan sports cars? [ATTACH=CONFIG]42859[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]42858[/ATTACH] The bottom pic is the typhoon, which dave morrison bought off tom, and had it for a number of years, it ran a twincam in it, then dave fitted a 2litre ohc ford ...

The no 1 car is the typhoon , ended up in dave morrisons hands for a number of years, dave ran a 2 litre ford engine in it, I remember tow starting it with a tractor across a paddock at maungati, we used to race around the tarseal loop around his house in it.it is now in the hands of steve donaldson ...

Welcome rob to the trs family

Just got an email from media77, the photographers at the classic, they said that they never shot any formula junior pics, because they "didnt think anyone would be interested", really!!

Hi again guys, I have just looked up media77, which is a photograpic company , which was at the scope meeting, and at the levels southern classic. there are pics of most of the classes, but none of the formula juniors. perhaps the fjs have there own photographers, or some other "deal" going on ...

My favourite terry were the many lotus 18s that were there, and martin bullock drove fantastic in a lotus 27

Just come home from commentating at levels raceway in timaru, the 2nd leg of 3 for the southern festival of speed.
what a breathtaking field of 50 odd fjs.
a big congrats and thankyou to all involved, will most likely never, ever see this many again , at levels again

Sad to here of dennis^s passing in cromwell, nz, a few weeks ago.dennis was a well known and respected engine builder. dennis also built 2 formula fords as an 18 year old, as part of his apprenticeship, the lyon dl1, and the dl2. only the dl2 survives, and was way ahead of its time when it was built ...

Pharrkk!!!!!

Michael, Thanks so much for all you have done for NZ motor racing. Ken Smith may well outlast all of us ! I have to add your book to my " Required Reading" list. BTW. What was the event that you were at in Hamilton with all the other great NZ drivers etc and Damon Hill was there also, a few years ...

Thats a classic pic greg, being a v dub, the number 53(herbie) would have suited it pretty good.

Hi guys, its been a while since I have been on trs, I have been busy sorting out my latest racer, a ford laser xri, which I will be running in the 2k cup, here in the south island.(check out 2kcupsi on facebook). It came time to sort the number out for it, and tried getting the number 69(quite a ...

Sounds like its going to be a great series again next year, if im not racing myself, I will be looking forward to commentating, and meeting all you guys.i have also heard there will be between 60 to 90 formula juniors for the next sfos as well.will be good to see spragueyagain to.

Steve Holmes wrote:This is Grant Sprague's beautiful MkI Escort Historic Saloon Car which is joining the 2017 South Island tour.

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Looks alot like a paul jones escort there gaz

Ok, so I have to admit, the roaring season has to be an addiction of mine, and many others I am sure.one thing about this site is all the great history, stories, and photos, and discussion on who drove what etc, etc. and as time goes on, things like chassis numbers seem to have a big impact on ...

Jac Mac wrote:Pierres car as it is currently, was white/blue/red originally, will be vastly improved with those wheels hopefully, the first set of SH Simmons were damn near square...

Hi guys .seen this car at levels this weekend, pierre has sold it to andy lloyd

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Thanks gokiwi, thats the beast, I mainly remember it when it was sponsored by exhaust systems, and later on waterbed world, and yes spinner32, I remember john osborne had an ol ambulance, also v8 powered.

sorry Michael, Eddies old car went to Jason Ryan right? Cheers Evan Hi evan, all these capris on here, and no pics of your dads no 43, this car used to give me the shits when I was a kid, it used to move my innards when he drove through the pits, where is the car now , also I did some work on frank ...

John Osborne (OZ) passed on to the big motorsport club and race track in the sky yesterday. This is becoming a very elite club. OZ ran a great race right down to the last lap, which was his longest of all, but he was still a winner. This will leave a very big gap in a lot of peoples lifes and NZ ...

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