The Roaring Season

Greetings George, I have lost contact with Charlie and would like to visit him. I have spent endless efforts trying to find out his whereabouts via the Selwyn Village organisation without success and with endless frustration. Please advise details here as I am sure that there will also be others ...

That's a nice looking rear spoiler on that car Johnny------lol

I went and visited Charlie Conway today. At 88 he Lives now days at Selwyn Village retirement home and is still very with it. He would love to see some of you old work and race buddies some time.

George, This is Walter Brown in his 1987 Camaro # 28 leading Bob Briggs in his 1988 Camaro # 60 [ATTACH=CONFIG]54369[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]54376[/ATTACH] (Ken H photos ) Unfortunately there were only 3 Trans am cars running but it was neat to see Greg Picket win the race in his beautiful Mustang ...

Wow that was pretty cool seeing Jim in the Siddy racing around the track. I wonder if that was the first meeting he ran in Aussie?

Grants probably right Jac, handling has never been my strong point and everything was so secretive as well. The mustang boys were able to get their cars to hook up with a bar off the top of the diff on the rhs going on an angle to the front leafspring bolt position but my old girl when I tried it ...

28 cars has been fun alright, too many really but its time to downgrade so 4 have gone and another 2 soon. Yes the Comet does suffer from understeer and I have slowly been working on getting it better. I spent too much time trying to get it to hook up with dumb rules that don't allow a LSD and of ...

Well that's right Grant and that's why a lot of people shy away from them, but while they are slotting in another box between race 1 and race 2 I am sitting there cool calm and collected ready to go, and when you get home there is enough maintenance to do on the race car as it is !! (especially when ...

Very "period" isn't it Steve!!

That reminds me, a certain Boss Mustang running a Jerico from Tauranga had to sit behind a dirty old Mercury Comet with a Big shaft Toploader that took 1st place. Mind you I wasn't invited back again, haaaa

Well if its the same box then you did a pretty good job of it then Jac Mac because its still in the car, still goin strong and before each race I leave the pits sideways onto the track. I can break most things but I have never broken a toploader. Most of my competitors have pulled them out and run a ...

I think this was a combined club circuit ACC/NSCC event my first season racing. I was about 17 years old and had not long purchased the ex Francevic Falcon. My first GT is the XT parked next to me with a cover over it. I was a long haired Yetti in those days.

A buddy of mine Dave Downie who owned the local Mobil Service station on the corner of Carr Rd and Hayr Rd Mt Roskill recently sent me this photo he took of the Sidchrome on the trailer behind the ex Francevic Falcon when we called in one day on the way to a race meet at Pukekohe must be around 1978 ...

And an action shot through the new chicane on the back straight

Here she is today sitting on the dummy grid as last raced at November Puke ACC meeting. The wheels now days are Magnesium BBS racing rims 17x13 on the rear and 17x11 front.

That day I think I clocked a 1.10 or 11 on slicks around there where as now days to basically the same set of rules but on 180 tread wear road tyres my best time around the old circuit was 1.06.33 and the new layout 1.16.2. Wish I had have known back then what I know now haaaa

This is one of the first times I ran the genuine Cobra (minus front spoiler that day) as you can see by the different number plate and the rear side indicator is horizontal instead of vertical on the replica

This photo of the Cobra at Baypark shows the one and only time I actually got some sponsorship. I had started to do a little work on the suspension by then although it was just Konis all round and bigger front bar, a rear bar and eurothane in a few joints. Trevor Mclean had a big say in the rules ...

These are awesome photos George. What happened to the Cobra replica? Well I think I first raced the rep in 1979 and in 1983 I was on my way back from a race in Taupo and saw a genuine Cobra (#211) for sale at Gary Thiefs, oops I mean Kieths in Hamilton with $20K on the window. I was out of the car ...