The Roaring Season

Posted: **Tue Dec 22, 2020 6:19 am**

Great stuff. Maybe you also need a thread with your ' Pic and Mix Roger! (D)

Posted: **Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:17 am**

ERC wrote:Great stuff. Maybe you also need a thread with your ' Pic and Mix Roger! (D)

Agree Ray,
When I said on here, I actually meant one of my threads - maybe on the Pukekohe one as photo relates to the GP meeting or the NSCC one - if john Histed was a member - in the 1950's 1960's into the 1970's most guys belonged to both the Auckland based clubs ACC and NSCC .
Cheers
Roger ..

Posted: **Tue Dec 22, 2020 7:53 pm**

Posted: **Thu Dec 24, 2020 7:51 pm**

Even though I had my leg somewhat mangled 5 weeks ago when an MGB reversed into me and crushed the leg up against another MGB, I still have a soft spot for them. It's called a calf muscle...

Although I have sold my much loved Cooper S and the Marcos may be the next to go, I still have the ex-Geoff Bonham MGB GT to sort out.

Classic Trial

ERC Series - Greg Bellingham

Gordon Harkness

Posted: **Thu Dec 24, 2020 7:54 pm**

More importantly Frans Cronje

Posted: **Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:19 pm**

A couple from Caffeine and Classics (on this Sunday?)

Peter's BMW

The P76 looks quite ungainly in comparison. Just before I left the UK, there was a P76 often parked across the road from the factory where I worked. I never took a camera to work, so never grabbed a pic. Pity.

Back to Hampton Downs
Cheetah

Elden

Posted: **Fri Dec 25, 2020 11:04 pm**

Having just read, once again, Evan Green's book A Boot Full of Right Arms I'm somewhat tempted to think the P76 could have been a pretty good car...

They did share gearbox, rear axle and wheels with Valiants, after all.

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:21 am**

Ray Bell wrote:Having just read, once again, Evan Green's book A Boot Full of Right Arms I'm somewhat tempted to think the P76 could have been a pretty good car...

They did share gearbox, rear axle and wheels with Valiants, after all.

Agreed; socialism killed it, along with the development a lot of other good things within British industry.

Very seriously LOL.

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:59 pm**

Notice that the one pictured has the unique Targa Florio wheels?

Somewhere I have photos of a beautifully kept (or restored?) green Targa Florio which lived in Cootamundra. The owner also had a station wagon version, I can't remember now whether that was a factory dalliance/prototype or just something someone cobbled together. I think I have photos of it too.

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2020 9:33 pm**

I'm a year behind my magazine reading (cruising habit means time away, but the magazines keep coming), and in a note I read yesterday, on the passing of Sir Michael Edwardes last year, Red Robbo, the communist union leader at BL, called no less than 523 strikes before Edwardes got rid of him.

IMHO, BL failed mainly due to three factors. Weak management (prior to Edwardes); Red Robbo and the unions; accountants carrying more weight than engineers. Shame as I have always been a BMC/BL/Rover/MG/Jaguar/Land Rover fan and the only car I have ever owned that didn't come from that large stable, is the Marcos - and even that has a a few BL parts in it.

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2020 2:37 am**

I did say I had pics of a P76 Targa Florio, didn't I?

P76 on the road. Hustling up through the cutting to the Cootamundra rail underpass.

The boot. Yes, it was large. And the Targa Florio wheel is evident, these were cast by Lynx Engineering.

Michael and Gwen. The owners, the Livingstones. They had a lot of A-Model Fords too.

Three-quarter rear. The lines show up here as well as the colour which changed in the sun.

Wagon. Apparently some thought the boot wasn't big enough.

Michael died shortly after we had this photo session. I'm guessing the cars have been passed on through the family, as did the FJ panel van he restored which was bought new by Gwen's father.

Posted: **Sun Dec 27, 2020 4:20 am**

Caffeine & Classics today - without the caffeine, and a fraction of the usual numbers, but always something of interest.

This caught my eye. Body shape is based on the Volpini, but a Kiwi built special - 'Russolini' with 4 cylinder Toyota power. The builder has previously built 3 McLaren copies.