GregT wrote:Firmly resisting the temptation to make it look better than the original I trust ?
We have accurately tried to recreate the Ferrari GP chassis the best we can from a few photos we had. The body itself was painted in enamel in a two car tin garage. The body was all together with windows and door handles masked off rather than stripped down.
We have also recreated things like the unequal, uneven and non-symetrical headers
BUT we are also trying to do things safe while riding the fine line between self pride and building it as rough as the original
The Morrari Recreation has been one of my Dad’s dream projects for at least 10 years. It is a recreation of the late Garth Souness Morrari which ran in the sixties in the All Comers class. It was a Morris Minor body draped over an unwanted and outdated 1955 Ferrari Super Squalo Grand Prix chassis. It ran a 327 Corvette engine. The original car no longer exists as the Morrari but has been restored to the original Ferrari Grand Prix car. My Dad has always helped me with all my projects and it was my time to pay it back. Thank you for entrusting me to recreate this historic NZ motor racing vehicle. The research was fun, the recreating of the Ferrari chassis was challenging at times but it is rewarding to get to this point. We rode the fine line to building it as faithful to the original car while being as tidy as possible. Things like the short pipe on the header had to be recreated and so on as thats how the original was. It doesnt run yet and theres still a list of things to do but its an incredibly proud point of time with this father & son project. Theres so many people to thank but for now thank you to my parents and also Tania Foster as well as Tim Philps. Thanks to Terry Bowden, Dave Graham, Gary Edgecumbe, Keith Ellis, Ian & Cath Goodwin, Angus Fogg, Nicolai at HPC, Dean Coley, Brian Bennett, Terry Sims and many many more. A proper thank you to come. Thanks also to guys like Steve Holmes of Roaring Season and also fellow gearheads like Craig Stacey and Duncan Fox to name a few. @gmshotrods_newzealand #gmshotrodsnz #morrari #ferrari #morrisminor #327corvette #garthsouness #allcomersracing #pukekoheraceway #hopuplive #roddersjournal #classiccar
Morrari and Zephyr Corvette in 1965/66. Peter Levet photo - archives Milan Fistonic
The Zephyr Corvette May 1966 .- [ with Ken Bailey I wrote on the photo Programme says Keith McClure,
- after Rod Coppins
Same meeting as the Morrari photo - my own.
Thank you to all on here and everyone we saw on Saturday at Pukekohe and then Sunday at the Hot Rod Blow Out. The feedback to the car has been very humbling. We look forward to getting the car finished off and then having some fun with it
The September 2023 NZ Hot Rod Magazine features the " Morrari " aka The Monster.
Article written by Greg Stokes of GMS Hot Rods which is Greg and Mark Stokes business.
The Cover.
The Car now features in the Issue #390 of NZ Classic Car Magazine - Nov/Dec 2023 written by Steve Holmes - out soon.
" Off to the Bookshop next week. " and next month too !!
NZ Hot Rod Magazine in September
NZ Classic Car the November / December 2023 Issue ..
and now the January February 2024 issue of NZ Classic Driver .
That's the Trifecta for the " Monster " articles - NZ HR and NZ CD written by Greg Stokes, NZ CC written by our [ TRS ] Steve Holmes.
John Larry Lawton has been given the late Terry Baker archive of photos, which he has put on the -
" Old New Zealand Motor Racing "
Facebook group.
John L Lawton notes ;
" In memory of my old mate, the late Terry Baker (AKA Steelo) I would like to start posting heaps of his old photos. Terry passed away in January last year and I would like to thank his stepson Carl for keeping all his photos and shipping them up to me. There are hundreds of them and I am gradually going to scan them and post the NZ ones on this FB page.Terry and I go back go the 1960's when i meet him at the Auckland Car Club rooms. We travelled to Aussie and Europe together. Some of his photos I will be able to add a few details to, some I was standing next to him when he took them and others I have no idea who, where or what. "
Included in the first trio are two of the Morrari - one with the number plate - new issue EW4078 at the GP meeting in 1965.
There are other photos to come and will probably put them all on the Pukekohe tread -
