The Race Replica Debate

[CUSTAXIE50]

amco72 was it your boy who raced the custaxie at teretonga,i have put up on the roaring season alot about the time i had with the custaxie and kato and what i did with them. what more do you want to hear,i have told you all how i came to talk to robbie about the custaxie new and old.the day i walked into new world and picked up new zealand classic car ,started all this b-s-about the custaxie coming back from the dead. whats up with asking for some photos of the kato also.

[AMCO72]

Custaxie50......My English teacher at school in 1957 was always berating me for inattention. This trait must be still with me,as I seem to have missed all this information that you have posted on this forum about your time with the Custaxie. So I shall now trawl back through all your posts, all 26 of them, and then I will be fully informed, and wont worry you again. So thats a 'big ten-four'.....Over and out!!!!!!!!

[CUSTAXIE50]

you say you have just heard from a reliable source he sat in the gradstand most of the time,who are you talking about jim.

[jim short]

I find it hard talking to alias names how about signing off with real name .then i will know how big you are? but then i love a good debate but nothing comes close to alans reply some ten yrs back when i told him he and his mate were to old rewriting stuff from thepast i grined for days

[rogered]

Appologies for wading in here, but its quite simple.
With a name like Custaxi50 one assumes you to have a fairly close connection to this vehicle.
That being the casePlease Re read Rods post #198. he did ask politely.
Basicly, and for us younger folk, we missed the cars first time round, if you have something interesting to say, please say it.
I have read though all you posts and there are no pearls of wisdom as yet. just negitive vibes.

[GeebeeNZ]

I worked with Tony Krilitech in the Bledisloe Building behind the Civic theatre at the time the Custaxie was built and raced. The Urquhart Brothers had their Coventry Motors Panel Beating shop in that part of Albert St now called Mayoral Drive and it was a place I frequently visited. Other than Tony the Urquharts and Robbie I am not sure where CUSTAXI50 fits in to the picture as after it was sold I was not aware that it ended up in the hands of the type of motorsport enthusiast who contribute to this forum. Like many contributors to this forum all I can say is CUSTAXI50 how about coming clean on what you really know and how you know it.

[CUSTAXIE50]

i do understand there are some rules on the roaring season,but where does it say i have to tell you who i am. so your rules are you have to be some so called big name driver, shall we say who comes from auckland who was a winner in some championship before you can say somethink on the roaring season would that be right jim.looking back you say you have a so called reliable source out there ,who said i sat most of the time in the grandstand what a lot of b-s-all the best to you jim--custaxie50

[Steve Holmes]

All right you lot, I'm not very happy with the tone this thread is taking. Lets not derail a good thread. I think it can be easy to misunderstand people when reading something they've written, please bare that in mind. Custaxie50 is correct, he doesn't have to announce his name, although reading his posts, I'm guessing he is the same guy who was featured in an old Autonews article several years ago written by Allan Dick, and who purchased the Custaxie (without the 427) for $300 from Coventry Motors, and used it as his road car for a while before trading it on the Kato.

Custaxie50, AMCO did not state he was an authority on the Custaxie when he wrote what was on the Custaxie info board, he was merely passing that info on. I don't want this turning into a shit fight.

Kiss and make up, and lets get this thread back on track!

[CUSTAXIE50]

yes the car was sold to me in 1968,here we go again you say if you have something interesting to say please say it.you say you are from hamilton.first thing you have to do is stop,sit down and think--see if you can down load some old photos of the old custaxie that was raced in 1967.still sitting down-now what would a boy from hamilton do with this car.would he put a motor and gearbox into it go and put a reg on it--wof the car and drive it around hamilton, still sitting down ok have you got the old photos in front of you of the old car- let say you have- thats how it looked where i used it as my road car driving all over auckland down queen st all over the place-one night we went down to huntly and back did you not read this on the roaring season-still sitting down-still not interesting to you-still negitive vibes-all the best to you--custaxie50.

[Carlo]

i have told you all how i came to talk to robbie about the custaxie new and old.the day i walked into new world and picked up new zealand classic car .

For all those old race (and rally) mechanics and drivers from all those years ago, the quoted section above will perhaps enlighten you as to how CUSTAXIE50 became so informed about the car for I think that many of us have been subjected to talking with our old mate Robbie in years past so lets give the kid a break and attack the posts rather than the poster in our quest for enlightenment and correction of historical records.

[jim short]

Quite right thats what is wrong with the world ,we all speak different languages .if we all spoke the same we would understand each other.i really enjoy this foram got a iot of laughs .sooner or later you give your self away and the aiias is blown ,,but alan is the best jurno still when he winds himself up and no mistaking his style.

[rogered]

Fantastic

How about you start again, ( without the percevied "large chip")
If you were indeed the owner, then you have a fair amount you can add. (please)

May be start with
"how i came to own this car.... etc etc.................

[105angria]

how did they drive these racears on the road without blinkers and lights etc ?

[bry3500]

Thats what I was thinking Angria...how did you pick up chicks in that thing,,it only had one seat!

[bry3500]

Maybe Cuxtaxie got one of those 'Dodgy' W.O.F's from the TaiTapu Garage..

[CUSTAXIE50]

thants for that steve-what would life be like if we could not have a laugh and joke around ,to me its all in good fun,or has this allso left nz for australia.i do understand what amco was saying,i was not getting off my bike about it at all. lets have some fun talking about the old cars that were out there over 40years ago,may i say is it because i am getting old that each time i get home from say going to manfeild ,what a load of shit that was-all jap-bmw-mins small things that put you to sleep.

[105angria]

Love the work on the Mcbegg fantastic ,what group of JENKS discriptions does it fit in ,? maybe the chicks only lay down in the Gustaxie Bry

[bry3500]

There's a few of us across the ditch watching this thread with interest Custaxie..and in relation to driving home from race meetings 40 years ago, I can remember the (slightly rotten) floor boards popping out at 90mph in my old 38 Ford coming home from Ruapuna one afternoon..certainly woke me up
was wondering about the McBegg as well...

[jim short]

once again it works,,throw a can of fuel on the problen ,it expodes and all is well{i have it on good authoritee no one sat in the stand}

[CUSTAXIE50]

i dont have a large chip at all, i come from the old school.if you are going to do somethink, do it right first time round thats the way to go thought life.look at all the houses we see on tv in auckland water water everywhere.