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    As a self confessed nitpicker and compulsive...

    As a self confessed nitpicker and compulsive corrector i try to suspend these tendency's when reading forum's like the roaring season. Not everyone has an eye for correct punctuation but some who...
  2. Thread: HWM Sports

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    29662 Photo:Wayne Collins Thanks Beowulf for...

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    Thanks Beowulf for that very helpful information. It adds more detail to the picture of the car's history. I didn't think to ask John Donnelly if he'd ever raced it with...
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    29608Here's Trevor in the MG after it had morphed...

    29608Here's Trevor in the MG after it had morphed into the MGV. About the only MG parts left were the radiator shell and a couple of body panels. The custom-built chassis used flathead Ford V8...
  4. Thread: HWM Sports

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    HWM Sports

    29607 I'm trying to trace the New Zealand history of the HWM Cadillac sports car that spent most of its life in NZ. Richard Wright kindly provided the above photo of it racing wheel-to-wheel with...
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    29601 Here's Trevor's first racer, an MG J2 with...

    29601 Here's Trevor's first racer, an MG J2 with a Ford 10 engine, at Ruapuna. Trevor let me copy his photos for a magazine article about his MGV special which incorporated a few remnants of this J2,...
  6. Thread: Lawrence Bruce

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    29596I met Lawrence Bruce about five years ago...

    29596I met Lawrence Bruce about five years ago when I was researching the article I wrote about Trevor Crowe's MGV. Lawrence had owned that car briefly and here's what I wrote about him and it:...
  7. I saw the Continental Special doing standing 1/4...

    I saw the Continental Special doing standing 1/4 mile runs at Ruapuna around 1969-70. It was, at that time, able to remain stationary with the engine running but only just. I remember it tended to...
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