The Roaring Season

AMCO72 wrote:Actually Jim, I think it is the other way round........they, the Mainlanders, supply power to us hungry Nth Islanders, so just put your machetti away thank you!!!!!!!!

[color="#0000FF"]Aw, Gerald you spoilsport, Just when Jim was going to do something constructive you stop him in his tracks!!! I was just starting to envisage all you NI folk rubbing two sticks together to boil the jug for your Latte's... [/color]

Amco you should thank God or in your case Buda that you are not a fish...Gee hope this is not off topic again

Jim, I have used so much fishoilene on my rusty English cars over the years that I sometimes smell like a ripe Snapper!!!!!

This Nth verses Sth thing is intriging. I was born and bred in Christchurch, still have ties down there, and so I still think of myself as a Mainlander. So when the racing fraternity starts debating about the relative merits of their turf I am torn between to two.

What a lot of racers down south see, is groups of cars from the north, HMC, formula juniors, F5000 etc etc getting loaded into containers, dropped on the deck of some rusty tramp steamer with the name 'Rena' on the bow, and whisked off to Oz for some flash race meet, and yet they cant seem to be able to make the journey to the south island meetings.

However what is coming across loud and clear here is that the fields are so mixed down sth that the controlled groups from the nth dont get racing like with like.On the other hand we dont want Classics to end up with 'level playing fields' like ST's etc and take all the fun out of what is usually entertaining racing.

Yes I'm sure this is way off topic Jim, but every few posts we get drawn back into topic with some gorgeous photos of cars competing in Mainland events.

Who cares .a very stimulating {coundent spell bloody??} reply,.Thank God we are all different ,a bit like Norfolk Isl. they are 50 yrs behind,{well 20yres. ago} as long as we like or love our cars for what THEY are and not like what they can do for us {Posers} we are just one big family, and beware of FIGJAM it can be upseting when decifered{sorry all you experts}

Gee, youve got me this time Jim. I used to pride myself in being able to 'decifer' your email messages, but this one has me beat. Clearly you are not talking about Fig Jam....2 words....but FIGJAM????????.

Quick, someone post some pictures so we can get off this subject.

Ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A batch from the Historic Touring Car class - Teretonga Park - SpeedFest - February 2013

Historic Touring Car class - Teretonga Park - SpeedFest - February 2013

Historic Touring Car class - Teretonga Park - SpeedFest - February 2013

Historic Touring Car class - Teretonga Park - SpeedFest - February 2013

Historic Touring Car class - Teretonga Park - SpeedFest - February 2013

[color="#0000FF"]Was just going back thru the pics & more thread pertinent posts,

#50, the Topolino engine is definitely a Lincoln Y-Block, they were built in 279/302/317/332/341/368 cid sizes all in the same architecture ( have a 317? here in the shed )

#66, DJMcD, not sure if you were refering to me, but Tony Mann Victor ( Kermit Green) is the Alec Dickie built, Gary Jenkins, ???, Ross Cameron car, might be a couple of other owners I have missed there.[/color]

southspeed wrote:Historic Touring Car class - Teretonga Park - SpeedFest - February 2013
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Now THAT is a really impressive site! Congratulations to the team there for bringing together such an impressive field.

Photos to follow - Sports Cars - Speedfest - Teretonga Park 2013

Sports Cars - Speedfest - Teretonga Park 2013

Sports Cars - Speedfest - Teretonga Park 2013

Sports Cars - Speedfest - Teretonga Park 2013

If you look at photos from the recent Phillip Island meeting, advertised and run as an Historic car meeting, you will find interesting fields of well mixed and matched classes running together. I grew up through the V8 era, started like many with Hotrodding, evetually went on to help on the ex Dawson Z28 among other cars, while the V8 holds a special interest, I lean now towards the more subtle, sofisticated, better performing Eurropean and now Japanese cars. I believe tuning the best performance out of less power but better handling cars gives much more satisfaction.Not to say a good grid of V8's won't get the adrenalin flowing.
http://www.sportscardigest.com/phillip-island-classic-2013-report-and-photos/2/

Racing Car class - Speedfest - Teretonga Park - 2013

Racing Car class - Speedfest - Teretonga Park - 2013

Racing Car class - Speedfest - Teretonga Park - 2013