The Roaring Season

Hi Dewi,

Thats not the car. The one I referred to has never been raced and is a Team Shelby replica. I've sent you the sellers details.

Cheers

Firstly I'd like to congadulate all involved on a fantastic couple of weekends at the Ganley Festivle Hampton Downs in Jan. My family and I were lucky enough to view the action from an upstairs appartment overlooking the start finish line on the first weekend. Not a race meeting I'll forget any time ...

[color="#0000CD"]Just bringing this to the top for young Dale from Tauranga as he is such a busy young fella, looks like a real legal period correct HMC contender, not a rolling advert for aftermarket goodies......[/color] I saw this in the flesh at the Skope meeting, and being a Timaru lad have ...

fullnoise68 wrote:This photo fairly well sums up what Tony can expect at the Festival ............ chasing a Camaro!

Steve, that would only be to learn what lines NOT to follow... (-:

Kiwiboss wrote:This is a pretty cool picture, to great historic New Zealand cars doing battle. Dale M

Nice pic Dale.

The tribute car is looking great. Are you going to have time to paint the centres of the minilites black?

Cheers
Kyle.

Kiwiboss wrote:Rollcage is slowly inching forward. Dale M

Dale, Get rid of all that dynamat! Or is this a new way to handicap cars for HMC.....lol

Kyle.

Hey George, Thanks for the info. I figured someone must have built a tribute car. Just a pity it's not racing. Would be great to see it in with the Cuda running HMC. More importantly though just racing! I've followed your thread on the new class. Fantastic to see! I hope the guys with some of the ...

Cheers Steve, Interesting attitude by Ford given the growing importance of winning these races at the time. You'd think reliability would be top of their list seeing the race duration. Hard to win while sitting in the pits! Thanks for the info. Zombie - Hard to believe no rocker arms! It must have ...

Thanks Dewi, great pics again. I was thinking of a red 69 fastback that used to race transam. I have seen the 69 camaro race in the past with transam. Tough looking car! Look at the size of the field at Bathurst!

Hey Martin,

Good to see you hooked onto this site. Be careful, it can be a great time waster!...hope to see you back out racing soon.

Cheers
Kyle

That's exactly right.. it was an idea that just popped up about racing Trans-Am and group N... but Dean Neville has proved that to be a success, in a ex Grant Wilson 69 Camaro, he won two races in Trans-Am in one weekend last year (the only weekend it raced) and then dominated the whole Group N ...

Steve, My understanding is that Ford wanted a colour that stood out more for colour TV than what they ran in 69. The rational behind school bus yellow was that it was cheap and stood out! I believe this was Bud Moore's decision. Look forward to the upcoming article. Those Mopars often qualified well ...

John McKechnie wrote:The Camaros won because they introduced 4 wheel disc brakes, Ford still had drums on the rear

Hi John. I think you may be referring to the 68 season. In 69 they ran Lincoln Continental discs all round.

Parnelli Jones has often said they (ford) would have won the 69 series if on equal rubber to Donohues Camaro. Firestone must have got something sorted for 70 because the cars had to weigh 3200 lbs up from 2900 lbs in 69. I guess that's an advantage of control tyres in our current trans am HMC and ...

The Parnelli 70 Trans am cars were Schoolbus Yellow and not Grabber Orange which is often thought and were the old 69's with upgraded sheetmetal to 70 specs...and to top it off were not Boss codes . They were factory M codes which =390 as was Moffats. Correct on the colour and 69/70 upgrade but M ...

Can't wait to see this car take to the track! What's the intended 1st race meeting? There was mention it may not be competitive due to front end weight etc. As a fan that's just fine. Smoking the rear bags to correct some understeer is what we all want to see anyway. It will certainly have some ...

I'd agree with the music comments so far, but more importantly applaud your enthusiasm for these cars Dewi. This car you and your father are building sounds like a fantastic project. You said it would qualify for Nc as well. Does this mean u r running cast heads and are sticking to Nc rules for the ...

Hi Kyle, your green road car was probably more HMC compliant at Lakeside than the one it`s parked beside! Did you get any photos of my #41 Camaro? Good to catch up with you again and keep in touch. Hey Steve here's a few pics with your weapon of choice. I've got other close ups but not of the ...

John McKechnie wrote:Famous quote at NASCAR- there are only 2 sorts who race- losers and cheaters....lol.

Like Parnelli Jones said. "everybody behind me are fast, anyone in front of me is cheating!" (-:

fullnoise68 wrote:Hi Kyle, your green road car was probably more HMC compliant at Lakeside than the one it`s parked beside! Did you get any photos of my #41 Camaro? Good to catch up with you again and keep in touch.

Hey Steve,

Nobody ever cheats in motorsport.....