The Roaring Season

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I believe this photo was taken near "the pits" at Mount Maunganui street race...sames meeting that Frank Matich raced his Team Total Lotus 19 and Brabham-Climax. Stories of the after-race functions were legendary...

One of NZ's understated motorsport legends has died in his workshop at Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 75. Bob Wallace, after 20 years in Italian motorsport in the 1960s, including being the original development engineer and first test driver at Lamborghini, has died at the age of 75. His brother ...

jamie wrote:Hi David I have an e/m adds and ph no for John and will be seeing him in a few weeks Jamie A

Thanks to both Michael, Jamie and the Roaring Season for help in putting me in contact today with John. Another good guy from NZ motorsport in the 70's.
-- David

[quote="jamie"]Hi the Lola was sold to Billey Apple and totaly restored and is used as A peice of art. Does anyone know where John McDonald, ex-Wellington, is these days (raced the Noble Special in SCANZ events in the 1970s (?) and fitted it with a DG-300 Hewland and a McLaren M16 (?) rear wing ...

Great images of SCANZ cars from the 1970s (?)in posts #148 and #149...Can anyone confirm the identify of the drivers and the cars? David Manton

Steve, I'd be happy to pay, but I don't know that I would if I didn't already know what great content and community was within. Because of that, I'd think you'd want to let the non-member see a bit of the site, to entice them into a membership. Without it, I fear that it will be difficult to ...

Have found one, thanks to RoaringSeason members.cheers,
David Manton

So did Archibald race there at all I think perhaps Jim Palmer may have won instead of Matich???? Met Matich at a cycle Fair in LA about 17yrs. ago joined a group to ask about his cycle helmets{headway brand} when my turn came I asked hin about racing around the fuel tanks at the Mount ,He was ...

This Lotus was purchased by Auckland Star journalist John Wilson who spent a family inheritance on memorable parties in Auckland and the Manawatu and dabbling in motorsport. He had the car prepared by Stuart Lister and colleagues at his Anglesea Street, Hamilton garage and the Lotus had numerous ...

Hi there David, I'm not actually sure. I don't have any pics of cars that look exactly like the one Mark has posted above, but there are some cars in the collection that share similarities, and I've not seen many photos of the car before to do a comparison. Here are the next batch: [ATTACH=CONFIG ...

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Hi Steve, great images of the SCANZ cars. Are there ay pix of Russ Noble's Brabham-based Noble Special among the photographs you've received?
Cheers,
David Manton

I've never heard that one - which isn't to say it's not correct. Remington was around Californian racing in the very early '50s My recollection is that Phil Remington was definitely an American; he certainly had a strong American accent. There were other Kiwi expats in the Shelby operation besides ...

Offers invited for a spare Colotti T37 crown wheel and pinion. The T37 was the gearbox used in several famous racing cars in the 1960s including the BT4 Tasman Brabham-Cimaxes. Email mailto:?subject=&body= or phone David Manton 021-02289907 (064-21-02289907).

Bob Wallace's key role at Lamborghini features in a chapter on NZ race engineers/mechanics along with a series of historic photographs in my book "Enzo Ferrari's Secret War", the story of NZ racing driver Pat Hoare and details of his links with Modena. Many of the Bob Wallace photos appear for the ...

Yes, the Alwyn Marshall Lotus-Cortina is still in the Bay of Plenty. I owned it in Tauranga for about 10 years or so in the 1980s and will be going to see it's current owner on my return to NZ in two months time.

I'm seeking a Lotus-Ford twin-cam engine, preferably dry sump, with or without Webers.
I can be contacted at mailto:?subject=&body= if you've got one for sale or know where there is one. Thanks.

Hi Steve,
Good to see the article on Pat Hoare's GTO conversion. There are several incorrect points in it, one being Logan Fow buying the car on Pat's death. Logan purchased the car in 1967...three years before Pat died. There's a book coming out soon on the story of Pat Hoare and Enzo Ferrari.