The Roaring Season

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John, printing inks have what is called a PMS code, and paint has a paint code. If you take that decal to a good automotive paint retailer, they can scan it and mix the closest possible colours to it. That is your only real option.

I agree, the scanners are just amazing John. Good Luck

I have the ex Laffite Gitanes Ralt RT4 and when I was looking for paint colours I went to an enthusiastic paint supplier ( Motorsport Fan ) and he went back to the old formulas and hunted through them and found that it was painted in Gitanes corporate colours, maybe the Cambridge colours are corporate colours as well.

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YOU HAVE A WIFE!! geee we'd did i go wrong!! (A big LOL)

Dale M

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You doing alright Dale, don't weaken now.

Or as an old friend of mine once said "Why would I have a wife of my own when I can use everybody else's one".

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That's really good news regarding the seats John. Nice to have those parts.

Hi John, That's a good price for your hK steering wheel, I see rare spares have them for over $700, Is the HT Steering wheel the same as the HK, With my wheel it has been fixed as the plastic is cracked and has been filled in, Look bad, Cheers

Linz- HK always has this woodgrain effect. Do you remember how we met through that Bathurst 350 motor- his was HT and had this wood type wheel.There is a second hand repaired one on trade me, but thats what it is- old and cracked . I got mine using evilbay from Big City Corvettes .

A story on HK steering wheels.......

When Beechey had his Warwick Yellow GTS 327 he came to Symmons when it was fairly new (3-4 months old) He related how he had ordered this "special" racing steering wheel from the States only to find when it arrived it was exactly the same as the standard GTS wheel already fitted.

This was at that meeting....

Im not sure whos idea it was, to put that terrible and flimsy steering wheel on a performance car.

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Just been trawling and found a site which many here contributed to. In it is a reference to our Grady and his enterprising past. As this site involves him, it makes interesting reading-
wenoopy’s right with the front row: Matich (Lotus 19), Riley (Lola) and Bremer (Jaguar). On the second row are Porter (Lotus 15), Doug Smyth (Cooper) and Ross Baker of future Heron construction fame in a 1½-litre Mistral. Apart from Colin Ngan (Cooper) on the next row and Grady Thomson (Austin-Healey 100S) behind the Mistral, it’s difficult to identify anyone else until Jos Mahon (MG Midget) at the back. But the other starters were Red Dawson (Lola), Ken Kay (Kato Special), Cliff Judd (Buckler and Mid Beckett (Lotus 7)

David Manton, on May 25 2009, 17:09, said:
It was that night at the after-race dance party in the function hall a few doors off the main street in Mount Manganui that Grady Thomson was rushing around the partgoers trying to sell a Maserati 250F for one thousand NZ dollars (including his commission)
Probably a thousand pounds, in those pre-decimal days
The most likely candidate was Amon's car, as he and Thomson were mates. But I think that had already been sold by then. Maybe the pitch was after the 1962 Mount meeting?
wenoopy’s right with the front row: Matich (Lotus 19), Riley (Lola) and Bremer (Jaguar). On the second row are Porter (Lotus 15), Doug Smyth (Cooper) and Ross Baker of future Heron construction fame in a 1½-litre Mistral. Apart from Colin Ngan (Cooper) on the next row and Grady Thomson (Austin-Healey 100S) behind the Mistral, it’s difficult to identify anyone else until Jos Mahon (MG Midget) at the back. But the other starters were Red Dawson (Lola), Ken Kay (Kato Special), Cliff Judd (Buckler and Mid Beckett (Lotus 7)

David Manton, on May 25 2009, 17:09, said:
It was that night at the after-race dance party in the function hall a few doors off the main street in Mount Manganui that Grady Thomson was rushing around the partgoers trying to sell a Maserati 250F for one thousand NZ dollars (including his commission)
Probably a thousand pounds, in those pre-decimal days
The most likely candidate was Amon's car, as he and Thomson were mates. But I think that had already been sold by then. Maybe the pitch was after the 1962 Mount meeting?

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John McKechnie wrote:I would like to contact the Spears who had Laurie Spears, Spears Racing in the 70s- get more pix of the Monaro.
Used to be in Sandringham , I think
Does anyone have any leads here please?

Yep, if you venture up to Waipu you will find Mr Graham Spears having a cool one at the local most afternoons and definately on Saturday.

Try ph 09 432 0212
4 The Braigh Waipu