The Roaring Season

Rascal wrote:The Green 222 mustang in the near to top pic is the John Riley car. this had Previously been the Paul Fahey car & Earlier in the US it may or may not have been an X mark Donahue trans am car.
some were built in Spartenburg SC, by Bud Moore enginnering but this one, if i recall was a Shelby Build.
After Riley, the car was owned & driven John Armstrong [dunedin] , then later changing hands To Rod McElrea [ashburton].
I Rebuilt the Body work For Rod on several occassions & re-finished the car , Firstly To Duckhams colours about 1974 , later in 1975, while i was away in Europe ; it was painted Orange , then in about 1976, after returning to NZ, we fitted Cologne Flares & painted it White with blue stripes over the top.

An offer to me , by Rod ; in late 1974, to drive a few laps in the car on a test day at levels was Gratefully accepted and often comes to mind as having been quite an experience for a 19 year old
apprentice race car bodyman.

I am told The car is now back in " as driven by paul Fahey " livery & part of a Valuable collection " across the Ditch". [Bowdens ??]

TonyG wrote:Is this the car you are referring to ?

seaqnmac27 wrote:Is there a piuc somewhere of the Mustang in Duckhams colours, doesn't readily come to mind

Chris Read wrote:Not sure if Ron is hiding under a nick name on TRS but last address for Ron is:
Ron McPhail
P O Box 1332
Southport Post Office
Gold Coast
Queensland
Australia

Mobile (0) 408 539 848

I have a mean DVD that Ron produced on Mairehau, Ruapuna,Wigram and Dunedin with a colour 8mm of many of the cars and specials of the 1951-1955 era
He makes it available on request. My last contact was 2007. Chris Read - Arrowtown

Rascal wrote:The Green 222 mustang in the near to top pic is the John Riley car. this had Previously been the Paul Fahey car & may have been an X mark Donahue trans am car.
some were built in Spartenburg SC, by Bud Moore enginnering but this one, if i recall was a Shelby or car craft Build.
After Riley, the car was driven by John Armstrong, dunedin , then later changing hands To Rod McElrea ,ashburton.
I Rebuilt the Body work For Rod on a couple of occassions & re-finished the car , Firstly To Duckhams yellow & blue -white colours about 1973-4 .
later , while i was away in Europe ; it was painted Orange by another guy .
then, in about 1976, after returning to NZ, i fitted Cologne style Flares & painted it White with blue stripes over the top.

An offer to me , by Rod ; in about mid 1974, to drive a few laps in the car on a test day at levels was Gratefully accepted and often comes to mind as having been quite an experience for a 19 yr old.

Rascal wrote:The Green 222 mustang in the near to top pic is the John Riley car. this had Previously been the Paul Fahey car & may have been an X mark Donahue trans am car.
some were built in Spartenburg SC, by Bud Moore enginnering but this one, if i recall was a Shelby or car craft Build.

David McKinney wrote:My recollection is that the (first) Fahey Mustang was developed in NZ from a non-racer. Certainly there was no mention at the time of any connection with either Donohue or Trans-Am. In fact I don't think Donohue raced a Mustang in Trans-Am, at least not that early

garry simkin wrote:The 1969 New Zealand Motor Racing Shell annual by Peter Greenslade and Euan Sarginson has quite an article about the Fahey Mustang.Quote: Fahey visited Carroll Shelby's Los Angeles headquarters in 1966,tried out a 7 litre prototype but opted in favourof the works Mustang,as raced by Jerry Titus.Unquote.
Re the Chev Coupe and green mini at the Taupo sprint, early 70s, maybe Jamie A recalls them, as, if my own memory serves me right he was there running a Cooper Jaguar.
Garry Simkin.

Steve Holmes wrote:This photo gets its own post, because its just so right, for so many reasons. Gary Sprague celebrates victory on the hood of his twin-cam Escort. This one photo sums up an era long since gone. A young guy who funds his own racing, does his own tuning, and his own preparation, and he and his buddies do all-nighters driving all over the country to get to the races, most probably with an old tow vehicle on its last legs, at a time when it was still possible to do this. And no sign of Health & Safety as he celebrates on the hood of his car being driven around the track! I know several of our own Roaring Season members have enjoyed a similar past. My, how times have changed!

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