This ad drove me crazy when I was a kid! Got one in the end...
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This ad drove me crazy when I was a kid! Got one in the end...
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As with a lot of cars of this type, I never quite finished it as University needed to be paid for....
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The Manta was enjoyed though...
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That Manta is an interesting looking car. The front looks like it was styled on the McLaren M8B Can-Am, and the rear looks like it was styled on the Lola T163 Can-Am.
I remember the first time I saw one of these, parked outside the little corner shop near where I lived. I was just a kid and my friend and I just stood there gawping, thinking this must have been fastest machine ever built. Then the owner jumped in, started it up, and the VW Beetle motor chugged into life, and I couldn't have been more disappointed! But boy, they are a pretty car.
Patrick,
Your book is a great project and is very much worthwhile. N. B. You will be creating a lasting historical record.
The idea of two additions, with the first in advance advising of a second, as has been wisely suggested, makes a great deal of logical sense. This provides the opportunity to amplify detail and if necessary correct any blues via the second addition. What is more from a commercial point of view, you should be able to bank on second addition sales equalling the first, as you will have created a captive market. Modern printing methods make this an ideal approach.
A word from one old and hopefully wise. When even a slight doubt exists, use terms such as, advice indicates that, it was reported in, as I understand it, etc. Definitive statements are not essential within such a publication and if you decide on two issues, you have the opportunity to carry forward further advice and detail, regarding an interest which has already been established e.g. under a heading "Addendum".
Having been there and done it, if you send me a PM I can give you some valuable tips regarding saving costs in respect of publication.Click on ----- http://ralphwatson.scienceontheweb.net/index.html ---- I trust that you have a good publication programme installed on your computer. Meantime don’t hurry the project, take your time, use the valuable information you are collecting here and get it right. Most important, enjoy what you are doing.
Sincerely, Trevor.
I believe that Epiglas made a sports car body called the Sonata ( their company was Sonata Laboratories) but I have not come across one in years. Does anyone know of it. From memory it was like a Ching Ford with an A30 grill making it look a bit like a small C type Jag. Graeme
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Would this be the body you had in mind? A picture from a Pukekohe Car Club hillclimb at Ararimu Road, Paparimu - 1965 I think. No idea who the driver was or what the car was named. A few years earlier many were just "Ford 10 Special"
with heaven knows what chassis.
Sorry about photo quality, poor old wide-angle lens was struggling a bit at this distance!
Stu
Thanks Stu You must have a good index system to turn that up in a few minutes.
One use to take part in the relay events taccoc ran also was at Wellington street race
Been away from the Internet in the wilds of the Kaipara for a couple of days and return to find this most interesting thread in full swing.
Here is an article from the long-since-defunct 'Auckland Star' of 4 May 1988 re the above.
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The car seems to have had a long life on the road for a Special.
Stu
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Phil Martin - Baypark - Easter 1983
Yes I think I was there this day ,thought it a joke that this yellow car was starting on pole!!but it just cleared out....I think it may be the same car Tony Herbert rebuilt the Lotus chassis back into a single seater?
The Ching body was run as a Mistral by Wayne Sattler {Taranaki??} ,he did 2.16 in prac..at Manfield fastest car did 1.36 David Childs Buckler.races next day was on the Ohakia airfield 1982?
Apparently Rhubarb 2 wearing Rhubarb 5's Mararn body...
http://www.can-am-cars.com/productca...&idproduct=562
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I know of the Pirhana and have lots of pictures but not the story. Lance Baylis of Napier is a possible avenue of investigation. Thanks.
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Know of the Gulf too and have a couple of pictures but was trying to find it in New Plymouth.
Thanks Also
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As requested here a re pictures of the front and back of the deJoux GT. Ferris deJoux when I showed him this picture wanted to know who had butchered the back window. Originally it had a curved plastic rear screen. No idea what happened to the moulds though.
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I know of this car and strongly suspect that it is a copy of the Falcon made in Napier by Peter Pallandine while he was living in New Zealand. Two lots of moulds and about three cars were made. One set of moulds was taken back to the UK by Peter where he made couple of thousand more cars and the other was badly damaged in a factory fire.
I would be interested in hearong more about the Cougar if anybody can help me out?
This is my picture of the Ching. Another car in the too hard basket but perhaps somebody knows something else.
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Below is a sample picture of the Mararn I am using in my book. A very tasty example now powered with a Toyota MR2 back end. Had a resonably quick ride around North Shore in it. Now for sale on Trade Me.
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There was only one Ferris. a small built man but a genius ,he could make anything even complete armour suit for a pomy soldier a beautiful Buggatti chair,had to smile one day Ferris discussing some thing with Neil Frazer when some big chap horns in and takes over,Ferris moves around him and continues his discussion right in front of him!1Had to admire him with parkinson now troubling him quite badly drilling a line of rivet holes along the side of the Maserati sp. Margaret came out to see how he was making out,and asked hows he doing ?I told her a bit crooked but ok !!Well you would have to be there to understand then again he had a good sense of humour,We were at Puke a day after BOOBS on bikes parade down Queen St. when Jan Mc. walks past carring a crash hat Ferris asks wasnt the parade yesterday?? real cool,Jack Braham tried hard to take him to UK but he prefered NZ
He was a great guy wasn't he? He was very generous with his time with me and very patient too. He wouldn't take any rubbish but he had a good sense of humour. He was hugely talented, quietly proud of what he had achieved but not one to big-note. I feel privileged to have known him.
Even his signature had style...
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Peter came to New Zealand for the first time around about 1957 and settled in Gisborne where the Falcon originated. I have attached a popular publicty photo that is quite well known around the world. But what is not known is that it was taken at Gisborne Airport. Peter Faulkner is sitting in the car and was one of three people that worked on the original buck. Peter Pallandine left New Zealand towards the end of the 50's to go back to England and then left England for Australia in 1962.
It is also possible that before he left for England he may have taken the car that would become the Tiki, an Ashly deriviative, down south but that is unconfirmed.
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Regarding #67, the ad came out of a 1965 publication.
Hi Patrick
Looking at your list I think the Furi should be in here. Variety of models by Bennet, Dunedin. One in Queenstown...still making them.
Chris Read - Arrowtown.
Who needs a car trailer? Just hire a trailer from the garage!
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My Dad owned this for a very short time forty-odd years ago. He brought it home (to use as transport) when my Mum was 8 1/2 months pregnant. Always the optomist....
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My Sister's old Ibis...
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My old Leitch...
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My old Chevron...
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Dad's old Chevron...
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The corner of Dad's old Ibis...
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I think my family has supported the local car industry quite well. There was also a locally made Beach Buggy, another Chevron, three Steel Bros S4s and two more deJoux Mini GTs...
Jim Bennett, in this case I would agree with Patrick, prolific car builder, but all one offs except for one which I think Jim had plans for low production.
PM for you patrick
Patrick,
Full credit to you for approaching such a subject. It's bound to attract criticism as did Vercoes's book but without such as yours and Vercoes efforts, much of NZ's motoring history would be consigned to history. Sure! You'll be reprimanded for mistakes but take solace in the fact that you've saved some of it. I'll buy a copy.