The Roaring Season

Steve Holmes wrote:Latest addition to Historic Saloon Cars is Julian Hardey's 1974 Datsun 1200SSS. Julian has owned the car since 1998. Its built to T&C rules, and has COD.

It runs an A12 motor to 1,380cc, twin 45 Dellortos, 13" wheels etc. A neat little car. These were hugely popular race cars in period. Rarely seen these days.

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Great to have Julian on board.
The 1200 beside it was his Dads and he owns it. Nice to owns ones heritage.
Welcome Julian.....

Steve Holmes wrote:Great to have Rayden Smith confirm today he plans to enter the 2016 Gulf Festival with Historic Saloon Cars.

This is another hugely important piece of New Zealand motorsport history, being the Willment Racing Escort twin-cam purchased by Jim Carney out of the UK in 1969 for the young Jim Richards to race. JR was a sensation in this car, which really helped put him on the map, and greatly increased his future prospects. He won the 4.2 NZ Saloon Car Championship at least once with this car, battling most years with Don Halliday in the Escort owned now by John Dennehy (as featured earlier in this thread). An awesome piece of kit.

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This is a privilege to have Rayden on board with his historic Escort.
I, in a distant way have a connection to this car. Jim Carney was my fathers boss when he worked at NZ Refinery at Marsden Point.
He was in my Dads words a very nice man.

Welcome Raydon and your beautiful historic Escort

It has been a few weeks since I last posted on the HSC Thread.

Last week I attended the TACCOC Summer Meeting. Beautiful weather and a really nice long weekend.
Busy from arriving with a meeting with Dave Graham, our COD Auditor, and Keith Hardgrave our Technical Auditor. It was great to put a face to the name and as Dave said " who's in the Zoo"...Just to make sure we are on the same page.

Good to catch up with Dale and John and what a sight of seeing the HSS guy's out there with the HMC guy's on a rolling start.

Special thanks to John Dennahy for allowing us to carry out a COD Audit on his beautiful historic Halliday Escort.

Enjoyed catching up with Dale in Tauranga on the way home on Monday and looking at his new premises.

Congratulations to Grant Sprague on the purchasing of a very nice Mk1 Ford Escort RS2000 who is joining us.
Looking forward to seeing you at the Festival Grant....nice car but Dale will always be quicker....cubes
Grant's Esky has a COD so that makes me smile...

The Festival is only around the corner so guy's lets get the cars ready as I did today and get those COD's in to me.

Cheers
Bruce

Bruce- cubes.... now would that be cubic inches or cubic cash ?

Inches John .......Thou I did enjoy watching that little Starlet last weekend...great show John and very special.

Just in case you missed it, #718 on my "Mix of Pics " thread has one of every car in the group that ran in practice.

Good to see a decent sized grid. Sorry, I didn't manage to catch much of the actual racing on the day - the downside of having an official Series involvement in a meeting with work to do!

Cheers,

Ray

The photos are fantastic Ray. Many thanks.

Sorry I was like you really busy but what a great day for it all.

Cheers

It has been a while since I have updated HSC.

We have had a few new people join our group.

Ist up is Grant Sprague having purchased Lex Linklaters Mk 1 Escort RS2000.

Next is Layton Hammond from the Manawatu buying Bill Cottle's 1966 Anglia.

Today Natalie Campbell again from the Manawatu with her lovely 1973 Capri V63000 has also expressed interest in being part of our group.

I wish to pass on our welcome to the above and just to note that all cars have COD's.

Both Nat and Layton have raced with myself at Manfeild in the Winter Series and MG and it is great to have them on board.

Grant comes from a famous saloon car family and welcome Grant, it is great to have you on board.

Cheers,

Bruce D

This is the latest car to join the HSC ranks. This is Natalie Campbell's 1973 Ford Capri GT V6. Its been a classic race car for many years, and has had a CoD for many years, although this will be updated. Runs 13" Hotwire wheels, Austin Pricess 4-pot brakes up front and Capri drums at the rear. Also runs a LSD from a 2.8 Capri. Beautiful car.

The Red Anglia was Bill Cottle's from Levin and is now owned by Layton Hammond from Marton. Layton has also joined our group.

Welcome to Natalie and Layton.

Both cars have COD's and Layton wants to be at the Festival but also needs to test the Anglia first.

Here is the beautiful Anglia Bruce refers to above. Good to see some of these cars in the group. Anglia's have played a significant role in NZ racing history, with a great many drivers getting their start in racing in the 1960s and '70s in one of these cars.

This is Scott O'Donnell's beautiful Alfa GTAm replica, from Invercargill, which will be joining the HSC ranks for both weekends of the 2016 Festival. The Alfa is a Schedule K car, running 2.0 litre with 48 Webers, 13 x 8 and 13 x 9 Campagnolo wheels, sliding block rear suspension etc. An amazing little car.

Spgeti wrote:It has been a while since I have updated HSC.

We have had a few new people join our group.

Ist up is Grant Sprague having purchased Lex Linklaters Mk 1 Escort RS2000.

Next is Layton Hammond from the Manawatu buying Bill Cottle's 1966 Anglia.

Today Natalie Campbell again from the Manawatu with her lovely 1973 Capri V63000 has also expressed interest in being part of our group.

I wish to pass on our welcome to the above and just to note that all cars have COD's.

Both Nat and Layton have raced with myself at Manfeild in the Winter Series and MG and it is great to have them on board.

Grant comes from a famous saloon car family and welcome Grant, it is great to have you on board.

Cheers,

Bruce D

Thank you Bruce, happy to be apart of HMC.....although a little escort .with glass, steel panels, seats etc . I notice every thing is small compared to the last car I raced which makes life a bit easier, every thing quite basic & easy...Bob & Grady have my cylinder head fitting correct springs something I would normally do, but being a little roller cam thought I would best leave it to them , springs coming from other mate Kev [Kelfords] , when head back on other mate Grant Fitzpatrick will fit a good shift light & bigger oil warning light only concern will be the right hander with a wet sump but not been a problem any other circut, entered for the 2nd weekend H/D Bruce got me our old family race number 63 .... Gary had on bread van anglia , Ernie on GTHO, & me on Fiat GTX fiat in 70,s. &Pete on his go cart &FF Our class I have been told is about having fun so thats what we want , just lovely old cars

Grant Sprague wrote:Thank you Bruce, happy to be apart of HMC.....although a little escort .with glass, steel panels, seats etc . I notice every thing is small compared to the last car I raced which makes life a bit easier, every thing quite basic & easy...Bob & Grady have my cylinder head fitting correct springs something I would normally do, but being a little roller cam thought I would best leave it to them , springs coming from other mate Kev [Kelfords] , when head back on other mate Grant Fitzpatrick will fit a good shift light & bigger oil warning light only concern will be the right hander with a wet sump but not been a problem any other circut, entered for the 2nd weekend H/D Bruce got me our old family race number 63 .... Gary had on bread van anglia , Ernie on GTHO, & me on Fiat GTX fiat in 70,s. &Pete on his go cart &FF Our class I have been told is about having fun so thats what we want , just lovely old cars

A lot less bodywork to have to polish on the Escort aye Grant!

With Historic Saloon Cars racing alongside Historic Muscle Cars at the 2016 NZFMR, the HMC/HSC guys have arranged to have along one of the legends of small-bore saloon car racing, Alan Boyle, who'll be on hand to chat with race fans and sign his poster of his beautiful Coke Viva.

Here is Alan's poster which I've just completed.

Looking forward to that Steve. A great looking poster

Fantastic posters Steve.
Looking forward to the Festival and my car is all go after a bit of a torrid time before Christmas.
We have a great line up for the fans in both HMC and HSC.

Cheers
Bruce

Spgeti wrote:Fantastic posters Steve.
Looking forward to the Festival and my car is all go after a bit of a torrid time before Christmas.
We have a great line up for the fans in both HMC and HSC.

Cheers
Bruce

Good luck guys, sorry cannot get there, someone please post photos for us to enjoy..

Cheers

Roger

Steve Holmes wrote:A lot less bodywork to have to polish on the Escort aye Grant!

Guna Guna Guna , be having some fun at H/Downs ..............last box was to be ticked when my Cyl [strapped roller head]...was to be completed by bob & Grady with new springs from Kelfords .. BUT was not going to be ..Bob gave me thumbs down Cyl head too risky to run as cracked & not fixable .. PERIOD.... so looking for clean standard 1600 cortina pinto head that Kev @ Kelfords will replicate ......

Grant Sprague wrote:Guna Guna Guna , be having some fun at H/Downs ..............last box was to be ticked when my Cyl [strapped roller head]...was to be completed by bob & Grady with new springs from Kelfords .. BUT was not going to be ..Bob gave me thumbs down Cyl head too risky to run as cracked & not fixable .. PERIOD.... so looking for clean standard 1600 cortina pinto head that Kev @ Kelfords will replicate ......

I was nearly gone as well Grant.....workshop accident and then electrical problems etc etc....

But I survived but my issues were timing and not a major.

Looking forward to catch up with you as I know you are still coming less car but you are important to us.

Your family has given a lot of pleasure to us older fans and it is fantastic to have you as part of our group.

Cheers
Bruce