The Roaring Season

S - specials

Stanton Corvette Stanford Special Satellite Special Smith Special Shadetree Special

A tribute in scale to Kiwi engineering

T - British

Talbot Tojeiro

More British T's

JT's Triumph, recently sold, so hopefully it will be out on track again soon. My favourite sports car as a kid was the TR3, yet I have never owned a Triumph. I do remember being taken for a blast in a hot TR2, reaching 90mph back in about 1964. Arthur's TR3 has been around and run for a fair while. TVR One of the star drives at the 2018 Revival.

T - non-British

Talbot Toyota

T - Single seaters

Thinwall - I suppose it should really be categorised as a Ferrari and not filed under British, but photographer's licence... Trident Palliser Trojan Tyrrell

T - non-British

Talbot Lago Talon Techno Tec Mec

T - FJ

Talisman Taraschi Terrier

UV - British

Unipower Vauxhall

V - non British

Volvo VW

W - Wolseley

Would a 1300cc Wolseley Hornet (or Riley Elf), on twin 1.5" twin carbs carbs get a CoD
in NZ? It is important that if you head to the museum at Gaydon, that you don't overlook the overflow building, (included in your admission fee) as I suspect many of you would spend more time in there than in the main display.

Whoops! (Many in my whoopsies file are of ERC cars that I won't publish for obvious reasons.)

This is why the old plastic holders for fire extinguishers are deemed unsafe, as you can see here where the extinguisher, complete with bracket, became a missile within the car and damaged the driver after a Pukekohe crash. The new short wheelbase prototype, possibly with 4 wheel steering. It says wheelie bin but looks as though another set of wheels might have been useful. Vehicle also stops often. Racing Ray Williams has the first hairpin at Leadfoot named after him... Couple of cans of spray paint and she'll be as good as new. No idea what happened here as I don't think any other vehicle was involved.

A few from Smales Farm over the last few months. This really is a an absolute jewel in the local car scene, and despite running at Hampton Downs on the same day, the popularity is booming.

From Italy

From the rear

A mix

Good to see that some of the iconic transporters have survived and have now become classics in their own right. Dodge

up early this morning ERC? must be the weather.

928 wrote:up early this morning ERC? must be the weather.

928 - Yes he is, and the weather was good when he took the photos of the Hillman and the Sierra pair at Caffeine and Classics October 2020.. Was there too and we had a chat, as was Kevin Hirst A95, Geebeez - Graeme Banks Mazda MX5 no 107 and John B - John Bennoch Mercedes 350SL ..
Weather good in the bay today as well ..

That Hillman ..

My photo dates are out 24 Oct, should be 25 Oct like ERC's .. the camera needs adjusting !!

Good question Ray.......
One that I will ask for a ruling on.....
My Elf has proven race history at National level with Cooper S running gear so it most likely would get a Schedule K but I am luck as I have all the proof of documentation.

Cheers

Yes, up early as the block layers were working on a wall at just after 7am so I had to be up.

It's an interesting one Bruce, and where I fell out with the system. The Riley Elf and Wolseley Hornet never came out with anything other than a 998cc, single carb engine as you well know. Transplanting a period 1275cc or even a 1320cc Cooper S engine is a straight swap, and no doubt was done in period.

The local system is such that it is OK to stuff a V8 Ford engine into a Capri and call it a Perana or a Twin Cam engine into a Cortina, or even a Ford V8 into an Escort because it WAS done in period.

The Late Jim's Wolseley 1500 ran a 1950cc crossflow head as it was a modification that COULD have been done in period, but to the best of my knowledge, only ever raced in period with a 1500cc (+rebore) but not the 1800cc MGB engines.

Equally, you can construct a single seater out of period bits and call it a special and it is accepted.

However. you can't build a saloon out of period bits and call it a special. It is an anomaly as it COULD have been done in period. Yet we have people sticking 700bhp engines into cars that never had anywhere near that sort of horsepower in period.

Funny old world.