The Roaring Season

Probably Kevin McNamara then...he owns the Okara Super Liquor in Whangarei. ..

Growler wrote:It would be great to get these cars back running again. I know this has been raised in another thread about Shell Sport cars...but just saying...
When I was a lot younger I do remember a MK2 Escort driven by someone McNamara (Menswear?). It did have on the back something like "Go easy on me - I'm only a 1600 pushrod..."
I wonder what happened to that car?

Thats him Malcolm. Sadly it ended up on roof at Bay Roof. Kevin was quick peddler and bloody nice rooster with it.

Photo i found in programme for NZGP at Puke.

Kevin McNamara also drove the Paul Fahey owned Union Travel Chev Camaro in the GTX series in the late 70s.

Mark Rutherford Mark 2 Escort:
McPhail Motor Parts OSCA Wigram 1980, behind a couple of rally cars from Blenheim playing with the race cars, Robert Smith RX3 and Brent Loader Datsun 1200 (1800)

Mark Rutherford Mark 2 Escort:
McPhail Motor Parts OSCA, Wigram 1980, behind a couple of rally cars from Blenheim playing with the race cars, Robert Smith RX3 and Brent Loader Datsun 1200 (1800)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]25569[/ATTACH]

Gus wrote:Mark Rutherford Mark 2 Escort:
McPhail Motor Parts OSCA Wigram 1980, behind a couple of rally cars from Blenheim playing with the race cars, Robert Smith RX3 and Brent Loader Datsun 1200 (1800) [ATTACH=CONFIG]25569[/ATTACH]

I had a b&w photo published in MotorAction (the old newsprint mag) of the Rutherford Mk2 Escort spinning at the Ruapuna hairpin after contact with (iirc) the Harrington Mk1 Escort. From memory there were Datsuns 3-wide right behind them (iirc Aitken and Cook). Would have been a Shellsport race in the early '80s?

Unfortunately the negative and my prints have got damaged over time, would be keen to know if anybody has a copy of that paper.

Bryan- will look through my copies .

Gus wrote:Mark Rutherford Mark 2 Escort:
McPhail Motor Parts OSCA Wigram 1980, behind a couple of rally cars from Blenheim playing with the race cars, Robert Smith RX3 and Brent Loader Datsun 1200 (1800) [ATTACH=CONFIG]25569[/ATTACH]

I had a b&w photo published in MotorAction (the old newsprint mag) of the Rutherford Mk2 Escort spinning at the Ruapuna hairpin after contact with (iirc) the Harrington Mk1 Escort. From memory there were Datsuns 3-wide right behind them (iirc Aitken and Cook). Would have been a Shellsport race in the early '80s?

Unfortunately the negative and my prints have got damaged over time, would be keen to know if anybody has a copy over that paper.

John McKechnie wrote:Bryan- will look through my copies .

Thanks, John. They also published a photo of Dave Waldron (iirc) fighting an under-bonnet fire in his OSCA turbo Mk1 Escort at Levels.

John McKechnie wrote:Bryan- will look through my copies .

Thanks, John. They also published a photo of Dave Waldron (iirc) fighting an under-bonnet fire in his OSCA turbo Mk1 Escort at Levels.

Just checked-All my motoractions, and other publications are from 70s- sorry

Bryan wrote:I had a b&w photo published in MotorAction (the old newsprint mag) of the Rutherford Mk2 Escort spinning at the Ruapuna hairpin after contact with (iirc) the Harrington Mk1 Escort. From memory there were Datsuns 3-wide right behind them (iirc Aitken and Cook). Would have been a Shellsport race in the early '80s?

Unfortunately the negative and my prints have got damaged over time, would be keen to know if anybody has a copy of that paper.

I suspect that would be from 1980 or 81. The Escort was built up by Rod Collingwood who lost his sponsor and could not develop it, so he sold it to Mark Rutherford. This car then became the donor shell for Bob Homewoods Escort Sports Sedan.

seaqnmac27 wrote:I suspect that would be from 1980 or 81. The Escort was built up by Rod Collingwood who lost his sponsor and could not develop it, so he sold it to Mark Rutherford. This car then became the donor shell for Bob Homewoods Escort Sports Sedan.

Think you will find the Rutherford Mk2 was built at Reg Cooks for Warren Steel.

seaqnmac27 wrote:I suspect that would be from 1980 or 81. The Escort was built up by Rod Collingwood who lost his sponsor and could not develop it, so he sold it to Mark Rutherford. This car then became the donor shell for Bob Homewoods Escort Sports Sedan.

Think you will find the Rutherford Mk2 was built at Reg Cooks for Warren Steel.

Les Laidlaw wrote:Think you will find the Rutherford Mk2 was built at Reg Cooks for Warren Steel.

Ok I am confused. I have got a reference from 1980 of the Warren Steel one going to Rutherford, but then I have another reference, and picture of Mike Moore driving the ex Warren Steel Mk 2 before it went back to him. Then another reference in 82 to the Collingwood Mk2 which he drove at the end of 80/81 Collingwood then built up the Trueno, and then that Escort being purchased by Mark and Ron Rutherford.

Bryan wrote:I had a b&w photo published in MotorAction (the old newsprint mag) of the Rutherford Mk2 Escort spinning at the Ruapuna hairpin after contact with (iirc) the Harrington Mk1 Escort. From memory there were Datsuns 3-wide right behind them (iirc Aitken and Cook). Would have been a Shellsport race in the early '80s?

Unfortunately the negative and my prints have got damaged over time, would be keen to know if anybody has a copy of that paper.

This the one?

My memory says that the brown Rutherford car was LHD.

That's right Marty, the donor car was the LHD AWA Clarion Mk1, used the rack & pedal box out of it,

So this is the LHD one built by CMR for Warren Steel then, here Mark Rutherford, then to Mike Moore, back to Warren Steel before going to Bob Homewood.



And this RHD is the ex Collingwood car driven here by Mark Rutherford.