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From the SI it's a trek I've only done once. No one wants to travel on Xmas day so it was get there early and Xmas dinner in a pub with a lot of other SIslanders. Several nights in a scruffy motel...

And that's what a knobbly Lister could have looked like. The 50's era comment about "give a brit a sheet of alumimium and he'll make something ugly" stands proven.

Even if I have got the quote...

Jellywrestler of course was talking about a motorcycle classic race meeting. But I suspect there may be lessons to be learned from the bike side. The organising club for classic and post classic...

The "Road race" term I assume came about to differentiate between scrambles/Motocross on a soft surface and races held on a hard formed surface.
"Scrambles" held on rough ground were certainly run...

In the motorcycling world a roadrace circuit has a formed surface and has both left and right hand turns. Historically the surface can be almost anything from rolled and oiled dirt to modern hotmix....

The engine pic is a Riley with four Amal carbs - and a pair of what look like SU float chambers.

Interesting to see. Pretty well all the corner footage is the left hander off Hills Road to the start finish straight. Ironically because it's been bypassed by the modern road layout it's probably...

The nose may be modified to fit the NZ number plate. Around that time the regs on how they were mounted were sometimes difficult to obey with sports and low cars generally.

I'd try a little warm water on a corner first to see if the top paper will lift.

Good luck Spyda.

I also see Pat Hoare driving a Vauxhall Special. We'd now identify it as RA2 which of course morphed into the 260M Zephyr.

I knew they'd run a bent sprint and hillclimb prior to the first Lady Wigram over those roads. The hillclimb was on Maffey's road at the back of McCormack's bay. Story in the family is that the old...

Firmly resisting the temptation to make it look better than the original I trust ?

Met Gary Dixon at a funeral not long before his death. My wife worked with his and from memory it was someone from their work's funeral
Anyway, got talking to him as he'd seen the Mk2 jag we'd come...

The cars were completed the Thursday prior to Wigram. They were based in Hutchison Ford premises in central Christchurch. I don't know if they were painted on site or fresh bodywork was freighted out...

There are enough 500's tucked away that Auto restorations did a batch of 500 JAP engines some years back. I saw the raw castings and some machined cases too. I suspect that any 500 Manx Norton...

The red cylinder block on that Scott means nothing. It will be ported to modern specs as most were even then and are now. I suspect if you wanted to re- enamel one using the correct materials, red is...

There's a mixture of periods there. Yes, 60's with the pudding basin helmets - but well into the late 70's with full face helmets too.
The Scott in the bottom pic looks very like a well known...

the in box has a finite capacity. It's full. Until it's emptied nothing can get in.

I've tried 3 times in to get a Pm through to you. One sale lost.

Better clear out your PM's frequently.

There are other pics in that sequence which I've seen somewhere else - maybe TNF ? Pretty sure they're loading post race.

For about a year around 59 - '60 I rode my bike past one on the side of the road in ChCh. I knew what it was and told the old man it was there. He even rode his BMW round to look at it. Came back and...

My guess for the car behind the Healey is Allard Palm Beach.

At least that's one car with NZ history that hasn't been "restored" to a form with very little history

So often they are changed "because it's a Bugatti" or whatever and the car with the history...

The roadside furniture got moved back as the roads got widened at Cust. I have a vivid memory of watching at the top of the esses and seeing Tommy McC hit the fencepost on the apex of the corner onto...