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Trevor, I looked at the photos and I think its possibly the same car that has had a rebuild with some side skirts a paint job and the Dash reformatted. In the early photo the car is rather tatty,...

Hi Rob,
long time no speak. Who did you buy it from first?

Hi Chris ,

Did you buy it from Ron Eaton? I was very keen on the car when I first saw it out the back of his yard, but my obsession with Cadillacs and hot rods got the better of me. It was...

And this one also?47968

Bridge abutment on the way to Tauranga. triple fatality IIRC. man it was hit hard. Photo taken at Dave Looses shop im going to say..... early 80's.

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it isn't this one.

I have a photo marked Whitford time trials Feb 1946. It shows Ron Roycroft as FTD. in a Riley 9 Kestral. As a Whitford resident of late I often wondered where it was held. Does any one know this?

Oh the dangers of posting off the cuff. the G7A race car was Mk IV J Car chassis J10 the car was developed by Ford on chassis J9. J10 is now a coupe and Kerry Agapiou retained j9

To be fair Steve, the G7A was based on a roadster chassis design , I don't think it was any particular existing car though.

Crikey Ken I just reread the thread on the GT40 site and theres ANOTHER X1 being built, that is the one we were approached about I believe.
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Ken don't believe every thing you read about Laguna. I paste a para graph from the GT40 site

If the two others roadsters that you mention are the two US cars currently being built up by a wealthy...

No Steve no connection, this GTX1 project has been around a while now. Howden Ganley mentioned it to me some time back. I understand its a very good replica attached to the reactivated GB rego . ...

Steve,

Terry Ferguson in Hamilton changed the car and make it more of a street rod than show car and then sold it Into the UK. It was a 30 Ford roadster on a 34 frame. Built by Gary Sword and...

Steve,
Keolin's car the "Pampas City Belair" does survive , it took a long time to be repaired, IIRC Dave Loose became involved in the repair at a later stage.

Smokey called em Tars

Yes that was Kaspas yard just after the bridge on the right. Although Bob Carlyle doesn't reckon it was there I still seem to recall it was.

Yes that was it , Les Pickett crashed it into a lamppost.

Bob Carlyle owned the wreck for a while He probably got it from Wilson, I shall ask him.

The dangers of working from memory.........

Dale you are right in thinking NYE but 1970 is too early, we think it was 73 or 4 .It was a big deal in the day made the papers. The Shelby (which was...

"Classic cars and wrecks of NZ"

Dale the New years Eve accident was the Mopar crash where four of our friends were killed . Their car, which was wound out missed the bend and launched itself off the road to hit the stream bank some...

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This was crashed at the S bend bridge in Chapel Rd by the little church. That corner was the scene of several bad accidents in the early 70's that took at least half a dozen lives, one alone took 4...

Dale as good a shot as it is Rodg had that Camaro a lot higher than that. Using the kerbs as launch pads does that to a car I reckon he was half a metre off the ground at one point. That was a great...

That sounds like the car built from the ex Pederson M18.