The Roaring Season

Rod Grimwood wrote:That was back in 84 I think. Mo has changed colour and the young lass on the right with sunglass's still makes diner most nights. I ran in Sports Sedan Association which was basically the Noth Island version of OSCA. Ran with OSCA guy's as well. Won 2Ltr Championship in it.
Yea Capri front gear, rear was turreted she handled fairly good, loved the wet, get in and give those big boys a bit back in wet (the big bullies) I ran Pacific front tyres front and rear which I got off Steve Millen as I also helped with his car so that was handy and they were nice and sticky.
Still got handles somewhere Shano, and yea it makes you wonder ah, I think we drank all kinds back then.
Remembered my brother did a deal with Brian Friend with the car, he was going to breadvan it, and the last i heard of it. It was a neat car most probably still my favourite in memory.

Carlo wrote:Ross McKay from Timaru ran the ex Ivan Segadin Anglia with the Climax engine in hillclimbs and when the engine failed my wife brought the car for me minus engine as a wedding present and we arrived back on the Coast from our honeymoon complete with the anglia on an A frame towed behind the Anglia van that the had run in the 1970 Silver Fern Rally a few weeks previously.

My first event in the car was a hillclimb at Harris Swamp on the Old Chch road, towed the car out behind the van then removed the 1200cc engine and gearbox from the van and installed it in the "Wacky Racer" as some of the Coast boys had named it as I only had the one engine and gearbox between the two vehicles, did the job at the hillclimb and then had to change everything back over again so I could tow the thing home and get down to the Aussie for the post event shambles.

As funds improved we eventually fitted a 1500 engine, a couple of Webers but still kept the std Anglia gearbox as it was pretty quick off the mark and when Bob Homewood arrived on the scene driving Jim Kennedy's BDA we did have some good old battles. When we left the Coast for the Far North we sold the car to the late Allan Hewlett who was another very acomplished driver and eventualy the car rotted away behind the Kumara garage until one day during a cleanup it went to the tip. About a month after Allan had done this I contacted him with the view of purchasing the car as it had quite a bit of NZ race history. Allan went to retrieve it but a flood in the Turamakau River the previous week had washed though part of the tip and the car now lies somewhere out in the Tasman Sea

105angria wrote:last info re Doyles

bob homewood wrote:[ATTACH=CONFIG]3330[/ATTACH]

Bit of trivial history I guess ,but at the start of the 69/70 NZ Saloon Car Championship,the Motorsport Association of NZ changed around the classes and the rules for the forthcoming season,and the way the rules were you could not use a 5 Bearing block in a Anglia in the Championship anymore .I still had a 1475cc three bearing engine with a steel bottom end that I had used in earlier times ,so I decided to stick this old war horse engine back in my basically Club Anglia and do a couple of the rounds more or less for fun,it actually went surprisingly well for what it was ,this photo was from Pukekohe,at the round that was held there on the old long GP circuit ,which used the elbow that is evident in the photo.

beowulf wrote:Somebody a long time ago told me that the demon tweak with Anglia motors was to use a three bearing crank in a five bearing block. Is this true or was some one winding me up?

beowulf wrote:Somebody a long time ago told me that the demon tweak with Anglia motors was to use a three bearing crank in a five bearing block. Is this true or was some one winding me up?

Steve Holmes wrote:Bob, why did MANZ feel the need to make this decision? Was it in an effort to try and modernise the cars in the NZ Saloon Championship in the hope the Anglia guys would upgrade to an Escort?