The Roaring Season

I went to a classic car / hotrod show in Matamata [ Car'o'Rama ] on Saturday and thought it could be a good place to promote classic motor racing. Hundreds of cars and people turn out for these events and they may well be interested in seeing classic cars racing - if they knew when and where. I know that Dale and a couple of others attended the Wheels on mainstreet event at the Mount last year but it's certainly not common to see circuit racers at such events. Perhaps if it was more common people would come along to watch. Just a thought.

These cars were there and created quite a lot of interest.....

ERC wrote:The 'crew' were around for a while Nigel, so who knows, they might even have snapped you! Great pics as always.

Oh so they weren't film stars or royalty? Disappointing!! lol

Fabulous photos again Nigel. Thank you.

A sight we don't want to see but fortunately the driver, Kevin Mills, was, so I'm told, not badly injured.

Hopefully we'll see him and the beautiful Escort back on the track next season.

Beautiful is right Nigel - in fact Jim Palmer had mentioned the car as being "too nice to race" - I was told Kevin is a panelbeater so no doubt it will back to beautiful very soon.

Michael Clark wrote:Beautiful is right Nigel - in fact Jim Palmer had mentioned the car as being "too nice to race" - I was told Kevin is a panelbeater so no doubt it will back to beautiful very soon.

Yes the Escort is a stunning car. Kevin run his own panel shop in Hamilton.
The car suffered a mechanical failure in the steering and sadly this was the result.

Kevin was back on Sunday as a spectator but was sore.

Cheers
Bruce