The Roaring Season

This car is coming up for auction early next year (I have no connection). It looks fairly complete but to the best of my knowledge it hasn't been run on track. It is being auctioned by Burns and Co.

Here's a link to info on the one that came to Australia for Jim Smith to race. You will need to register with Shannons to read the full article....

https://www.shannons.com.au/club/news/rover-p6-3500-the-uk-factory-prototype-that-died-down-under/

Someone once said given the choice between a stuff-up and a conspiracy go for the stuff-up every time. Why not put this 'theory' to Ian Tate now. He is still very accessible and I'm sure his reply would be worth reading. As an aside, he would actually be a great subject for a biography in his own ...

Here's the pic I mentioned. Not my photo and happy to add an attribution if anyone knows who took it....

Terry S wrote:Any update on the status of this amazing car?

I recently saw a photo of it and it appeared close to being finished - fully painted and sporting the original wheels. I'll see if I can find a link and post it.

Does this help? http://www.grandprixhistory.org/chap_2h.htm

How's this?

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And cordials... Actually, they were better known for the cordials than the soft drinks. You can still get their cordials, but not soft drinks. There are also jelly crystals, jams etc. Apparently it all started with 'Passiona', which was based on passionfruit, I wonder if that's what Graham is ...

Thanks Terry. I'm just trying to remember what car this was. Was it Fred Gibson's XA GT from 1973? I seem to recall Moffat wrecked his XA and so Ford gifted him the Gibson car when they withdrew from racing (as they kept on doing). According to Australian Muscle Car, issue 28, your memory is right ...

Greeting from west of the Tasman. Here's my current NA6. Very standard apart from the wheels. It is relatively low mileage with just over 160,000km from new. I bought it late last year in Cairns, QLD and drove it back to the outskirts of Melbourne, VIC, a distance of approx 3,200km. On that trip, I ...

Steve Holmes wrote:I love that Bo Seton Capri Dale. What sort of wheels are those?

I think you'll find they are early Simmons racing wheels, Steve. They were used on a lot of smaller Aussie tin-tops during the 70's.

I visited the Petersen museum about 4 weeks ago (thanks to a 24 hour flight delay) and did the vault tour. The main reasons photos are banned related to security, including the fact that many of the cars in that area do not belong to the museum. Even though the tour went for 2 hours, at least half ...

To paraphrase an old advertising campaign, would it be fair to say 'Body by Giugiaro, Soul by Bizzarrini' ?

khyndart in CA wrote:In a way you are both correct as Giotto Bizzarrini designed both of these beautiful machines in the 1960s
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My bad. I'm more familiar with the later Grifos. Cheers

I hate to be a pedant but I think the red car in post #1512 is a Bizzarinni rather than an Iso Grifo

Peter M wrote:Also in the NZ Herald last week Murray Bunn had also died.Was he the the man who built the Sidchrome Mustang and the Falcon Hardtop that Jim Richards raced after the Mustang returned to NZ.

Yes.

There should be plenty of info about, Ken. It was only restored relatively recently and featured in all the major Oz motor magazines at that time... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iezc14zdYCM http://www.caradvice.com.au/142208/1969-holden-hurricane-restored-holdens-first-concept-car/

Dale Harvey wrote:, Peter Woodward in the Calder pic was the ASCC in the Elfin 350.


Ray, that looks like an LC XU1 not an Elfin 350.
Dale.

Inded it is, but I think Ray was saying that Peter later won the ASCC in a lovely Elfin 350........

Ray Bell wrote:First one is Bob Beasley in his short term with the Lotus 47...

Third one should be the late Neville Bridges' CIG Torana.

I think the Torana pulling off to the side at Amaroo is Gary Cooke, but I'm not sure.

I'd plump for the 4-door A9X being Charlie O'Brien

LOVE these images! Interesting to see the two Camaros that made their Bathurst debuts in 1979. Others will know better than me, but were they given special dispensation to do this event? Not special dispensation, but they were hamstrung by having to use drum brakes on the rear, despite coming from ...