The Roaring Season

The "famous" Austin was owned as well as driven by George Smith. It would appear likely that two different cars are involved. Note that the dashboards are clearly different. # Refer to my book "Ralph Watson Special Engineer for photo and article by Ralph Watson, "My Years of Motor Racing ...

Hi Rob,
long time no speak. Who did you buy it from first?

Hi Chris ,

Did you buy it from Ron Eaton? I was very keen on the car when I first saw it out the back of his yard, but my obsession with Cadillacs and hot rods got the better of me. It was $1200.00 if I recall and that would have made it the 5th car I had on tick . British were cars my parents drove!

And this one also?

Bruce302 wrote:A year or two too early, That's a 67 or 68, but damn what a mess. Doesn't look good for the driver.
Where did that happen Duncan ?

Bridge abutment on the way to Tauranga. triple fatality IIRC. man it was hit hard. Photo taken at Dave Looses shop im going to say..... early 80's.

it isn't this one.

I have a photo marked Whitford time trials Feb 1946. It shows Ron Roycroft as FTD. in a Riley 9 Kestral. As a Whitford resident of late I often wondered where it was held. Does any one know this?

Oh the dangers of posting off the cuff. the G7A race car was Mk IV J Car chassis J10 the car was developed by Ford on chassis J9. J10 is now a coupe and Kerry Agapiou retained j9

To be fair Steve, the G7A was based on a roadster chassis design , I don't think it was any particular existing car though.

Crikey Ken I just reread the thread on the GT40 site and theres ANOTHER X1 being built, that is the one we were approached about I believe.

http://www.gt40s.com/forum/original-gt40s/37538-gt40-roadsters-how-many.html

Ken don't believe every thing you read about Laguna. I paste a para graph from the GT40 site If the two others roadsters that you mention are the two US cars currently being built up by a wealthy US 'gentleman' using X-1 and X-2 titles then I have to mention that these will simply be inaccurate ...

No Steve no connection, this GTX1 project has been around a while now. Howden Ganley mentioned it to me some time back. I understand its a very good replica attached to the reactivated GB rego . The McLaren Trust was asked for assistance early in the project , but our policy is not to involve ...

Wow Duncan, that '32 roadster is just so cool! Where is it now? Steve, Terry Ferguson in Hamilton changed the car and make it more of a street rod than show car and then sold it Into the UK. It was a 30 Ford roadster on a 34 frame. Built by Gary Sword and Peter Barnett. At one time it was NZ's top ...

Steve,
Keolin's car the "Pampas City Belair" does survive , it took a long time to be repaired, IIRC Dave Loose became involved in the repair at a later stage.

John, Tire One would describe me. The other is what is between the vehicle and the road ! (tire ˈtaɪ&#601 n, vb (Automotive Engineering) the US spelling of tyre." n. 1. A covering for a wheel, usually made of rubber reinforced with cords of nylon, fiberglass, or other material and filled with c ...

Duncan- I remember seeing a 69-71 shell with frontal damage- think it was yellow- sitting in a yard where Kaka St, Otahuhu goes down to Pacific Scrap. Was working at Davie Motors, could have been 1981. How does this sound? Yes that was Kaspas yard just after the bridge on the right. Although Bob ...

PDJ wrote:Remember seeing the 69 MACH 1 in Kaspa's yard in the 80's Blue with left rear damage.

Yes that was it , Les Pickett crashed it into a lamppost.

Trevor Grays wife was part Maori and deeply superstitious and wouldn't let him race the Mustang(Shelby GT500KR) at any dirt track Saloon meetings over the New Years period, so the story goes.............because two persons were killed in the crash of this car New Years eve...which I know was Chapel ...

The dangers of working from memory......... Dale you are right in thinking NYE but 1970 is too early, we think it was 73 or 4 .It was a big deal in the day made the papers. The Shelby (which was a KR500) was chased all round east Auckland before the crash. It was NOT the car in Kaspas yard. That was ...

car mad wrote:just spotted a photo of the red one on Facebook on a trailer in christchurch saying its been saved

"Classic cars and wrecks of NZ"