The Roaring Season

i think john leamonth ownes the monza

Jim, which Monza. I heard he had one, and that he had sourced his old Monaro.

That Torana sure has some Mumbo, imagine the wait saving if all the paint was removed.

Hi what a great way to start the new year,i am obvxxxxsly slower at reading than ithought ,just found these pages and just great ,sports sedans have been bypassed compared to the60~~70s i only had 5yrs 83~88 but remember them well .the first race at bay park parked behind algies alfa, ithink we may have started 3 cars side by side,or perhaps my eyes were shut ,could not see the starter, remember passing 3 cars befor the back straight , then a couple noisy smelly rotarys and a black marina took offence at some rich prick!!being better than them so found myself squeezed off the track..on a couple of corners ,but driving 190 inters 30plus ton on punice roads wide eneough for one and a half trucks was a good training ground,but to be fair we are good mates still,actually one of them {a lot bigger than me} came into my cycle shop some time later and asked how come that when i started we used to lap around 63~64sec now i am into 61s, well its like this see that bike i ride to work20 ks at lest ever day and on weekends a lot more than that .a few days later he returned what bike do need? sadly no bike frame was made in nz,{ by the way this rich prick sold his chrome wire wheels of jag a car now owed 42yrs to pay to keep ahead of those rotarys} stickshift

i rang him last niteclose to 20 yrs since been in contact{was good wine dont think its worn of yet} any how told him wanted to by his monaro he had for sale after quite a bit of stuttering he woke up to me,, the moaros well gone the monza is the brown davids algies one,he has run it a few times spoke and laughed over an hour

Jim, re the Monza, did Leamonth repaint it red?

whats your post address will do you a copy dvd{ including rotarys through the back window } 86~87

no idea, he has several other interesting cars but i only found this site 2am dave silcock was also coming on board his memory is real sharp david young wanganui top jag man died in plane crash 1984 maintained silcock only read the manuel once and remembered it where he had refere to it ~ you have created something great here

jim short wrote:whats your post address will do you a copy dvd{ including rotarys through the back window } 86~87

Thanks Jim, I'd love that! Will email you postal address. Many thanks

jim short wrote:no idea, he has several other interesting cars but i only found this site 2am dave silcock was also coming on board his memory is real sharp david young wanganui top jag man died in plane crash 1984 maintained silcock only read the manuel once and remembered it where he had refere to it ~ you have created something great here

Yes Dave registered a few days ago on here Jim. Re the Monza, I recall seeing a red Chevy Monza at Taupo many years ago. I'd never seen it before, and haven't seen it again since. I know there weren't many Monza's that raced in NZ, and the others were accounted for when I saw this one. I can't remember who was driving it though.....

Jim, you still got that one driving through the paddock at Taupo to the dummy grid (squeck,squeck) and then the boys talking on dummy grid. loved those videos your young fella used to do (they had alot more footage of a flash modified VW than our cars with engines where you could see them breath).I think i can remember the shop, nice cups of tea, and the video with pracitice times at Bay Park with a zoom into the Porche time of 61 (High 61s) and then onto a Escort in 64 (low 64s). Yep definatly a wait advantage there.

Good to hear from you Jim Happy New Year to you and family.

PS still got Escort and maybe a little more weight disadvatage.

This one reminds of the guy from the bike shop,

(Maybe this should be on Sports Sedan post, may head that way Jim then I can hopefully gather some support)

bit of a joke that shot.1983 ardmore reunion at puke.when asked to join the syndacate to race the porSche ,the five of us would have meetings every so on at least 3 monthly and no one out side the 5 will drive it,1st time out at BP i had my Etype competing against mostly 911s at the end of the day i got to drive it in the last race, our times were all close, but i was slightly quickest so i got to drive most of the time.Ardmore what a magic name this country will never get close to that place the cars the drivers only fangio and hawthorn was missing,man iwanted to race so much it hurt..but living on 25 acr. farm 20 cows 6or 7 horses not a lot of money..So 20 yrs beleive me i was ready the mk2 jag and the paton i bought for $600 and rebuilt it had a elva head overhead inlet valves that was prety well stuffed actally the great big chap i brought it off forget his name turned out to be a crook asked for the head back to do me a favour ,have it rebuilt with a couple of his own never got it back..never mind the rules stated any 4 cyl; ford mot, was ok if before 1965. plus john macey the last person to race the car had ohv mtr siting on the floor to go in sadly he put the car in the creek over rothmans and gave up racing,so some young chap in hamilton was wreking a cortina with a 1500 mtr;with webers or delorters $400 with gearbox seemed a good deal,[Some yrs later geoffrey a lot of yrs. actually competing with an anglia ind in contention stuffed his mtr.only a couple of races to go ,,well i wasnt keen but as kids do he borrowed the mtr. straight to lyn rogers , hell he said this is all standard lucky to have 70bhp.!!!I know im old back to the photo As you are running two cars at the meeting we will give roger anderson the 911 to drive so much for our rules ,never mind the jag was given fastest lap 1 23 ray archibald next then angus hyslop lot,cortina about 1 26{ i mention this because it wasent long before !!standard!!! lotus cortins were doing 1 16!!! the paton finished up fastest with 1,,,21 whitehouse{archibald xk then rob boult 3rd allard caddy}perhaps if i had driven 3 cars to win i might have got more than one sentance .. a bit like alister mcbeath when he beat bruce mclaren mini cooper in his mk2 jag the report was all about bruce the last sentance said mcbeath won . we still laugh about the coverage at times we i mean alister is with out a real lot of fun 83yrs. now by the way thats roger in the photo

ardmore reunion at puke 1983 the other 4 owners thought to drive 3 cars might be to much in spite of our rules laid down when i joined no one will drive the but us .so roger anderson got to drive it,still my jag got fastest lap the fan belt came off on the last lap plus the paton was fastest sportscar bur perhape if i had!!!!

Hi rod good to catch up not shure of that one,,,was it the last round when it rained brett didnt turn up for practise on sat..i had pole meaning had the overall in the bag!! sunday was fine and we went out no times taken and i could here this mini beside me turned out the diff finnaly all the teeth were gone,and brett won.makes you laugh today the third to last round at bp my gearbox was jamming ,just done the north south challenge no problems brett had a hell of a time a crash with viguar munt then he carried on and caught fire then on to puke 2nd last round gearbox jamed agained tow back ,,first time not counting the two crashes tony caused!!the first and only time blair my mech.and friend turned up ..not to worry race is tomorrow back to his garage pull trans out and up among selectors a large tooth!!!over the road return with some beers sitting feeling rather sad, but beer dos help, hay hang on this has been jamming the last couple of rounds so we have removed the problem!!! next day if you remember we used the long track and we all??decided to make it entertaining for the huge crowd you lead this lap me the next ect.ect..lasted untill that rather very quick turbo escort.. took off now only taupo to go rsr still in front..do you remember how stupit of me how could you forget!!!

only once in 5 yrs did i ever have 4 new tyres at the same time when i go with son and grandson to v8s today new tyres everware and for the record on a track thats now houses best time was 1,,,03 by the way i cant stand skites

and amco said i couldent write i dont mean spell

Steve
I'm back catching up ( in theory i should get email to advise eof further postings to threads but i don't! why is it not happening? )
Re old UK race capris
as far as i am aware no cars have crawled out from under the tarps or been found dormant in a shed to be restored
another Capri that ha just flashed thru my mind is the Dave brodie "run baby run" car he had i think Ga powered
Brodie had a few escorts first then the capri i cannot recall who had the capri before him
I know if i sit up for weeks on end reading my collection of 1973-2002 Autosports i will find the info but i await the shipment of warm beer that you need to send to activate the reading and yes its raining here so i can even do it in daylight hours !
I have read through many of my mags and made note son cars for sale or gossip reports of new cars built or sold to new owners but i cannot find the list now

Jim, thats another video i must check and get done, the stage race at Bay Park, taking turns doing the biggest skid around Harmans and down the short straight and a flick into Champion and onto front straight. Jiggger in the Datsun, Stickshift in the Mazda, you in the Porche and a white and blue Escort. And they think drifting is a new sport. They were good days, championship finished and just a good old thrash for the boys in last race.

no not me tony called me stickshift because his trade name was autoshift auto repares so i called him autoshift plus he was so smooth!!the only rigged race was at puke ,,didnt stay rigged for long i have a great vidio of you bp into front strait turning around {the car} to see who is following next lap you got it pretty good To laugh is so important and since steph died{15yrs} being bloody had but laugh i do and at bp around the big sweeper the porsche loved it how many times i could run around the big v8s classic was munt in green capri sitting on the left in my car right beside him as i went past him sawing away at the wheel, then he would out grunt me down the straight lap after lap, i mean how could you not laugh him looking at me in disbeleif.. john leamonth past him around there a few times not often i think he only beat me once when gears played up

Munty wrote:McElrea says you got that right Jac!

The last vision that I have of the aforementioned gentleman was him eating pavlova out of the fridge with a hearth shovel, it was at some kind of function in Ashburton...