John McKechnie wrote:George- congratulations both on the completion of the meticulous rebuild, and also the longeity of your ownership.
Remember seeing it in your garage in 1992. Now that the hard work is done, any plans for using it?
Thanks for the kind words Johnnie. And yes I will definitely be running it, in fact while it was on display at HD I saw a lot of my "bretheren" form the good old days that after a great chin wag with good ole Bob Homewood I made an instant decision to form a historic sports sedan class that Bob agreed would be a fantastic idea. I put pen to paper and off the top of my head came up with 30 existing cars. So I have already had talks with the Auckland car club outlining that I would like to do it the same way as I set up the production muscle car series to run at their 6 club meetings they have each season (1 day meets with 1 practice and 3 races probably all 6 lap handicap) starting in September thru to April,and they are quite exited and right behind it. So now I will organise a meeting of all interested competitors at the Auckland Car Club rooms possibly on the 20th of April (if they are free) and basically who ever turns up will be the people who form the rules.
So all of a sudden there would be somewhere for the Custaxie 2 to race!! A starting point would be something like pre 1980 and cars to be as they were run, for instance I couldn't put a late model nascar engine, brakes,trans and wheels on the Siddy!!! Also allow replicas as long as they are true replicas, that sort of deal but of course those parameters are what the people who turn up to get this class going would determine. So there we are, all those people who I saw at HD who reminisced and said wouldn't it be great to do it again, nows your chance. So please tell as many people as you can and I will come back with a confirmation of that date and time. Cheers, George.
