I'm getting older and memory's failing but the only Osca car I remember that was built using racing car components, (in those days) was a Datsun 180b owned by --------------? (I'll remember soon, or...
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I'm getting older and memory's failing but the only Osca car I remember that was built using racing car components, (in those days) was a Datsun 180b owned by --------------? (I'll remember soon, or...
Hi Guys,
If you want to ad further interest to this Lotus 7 thread you might research the left hand drive 907 engined one off car Steels were developing with the idea of producing a series of them...
Har ha ha, Frosty5, good one, I like it!
Engines have pistons and run on petrol/methanol/lpg/etc, motors have armatures and run on electricity, eg 12 volts/240 volts/etc!
PK.
Duno if it's Pat's car, Supa, as Pat is still racing his at Skope etc.
PK.
I don't know about the history of the Kaikoura kart track, but I have used it a few times.
My doughter and I used to go up and use the track before she started racing karts. I wanted her to have...
Am I to assume, Steve, that the championships Mustangs won in OSCA are too insignificent to be considered?
PK.
I certainly don't have a problem with an anual subscription!
Let me know the bank acc number.
PK.
Giday Mark,
I've just given Mark Coultard (Markec) many old video tapes some of which you might be interested in.
you should be able to find him on here, if not email me on paul.kirk@xtra.co.nz...
Check out WWW.Cust GP. Followers of that site may well have stories and info to tell!
PK.
Ahar, so it must have been YOU, Jac, that fitted that big brake limiting valve (that worked on all 4wheels) and the oversized master cylinder that required both feet on the pedal!
Poor old Rod...
Rod, further to your great photos of the Stanton Corvette I thought it might be apropriate to ad a little snippet of info. re the diff.
Morry and Charlie had problems wearing out the teeth on the...
If anybody was wanting to contact some competitors from Arunui, I know 3 of them---
(1) Terry Keisinoski, Lives in Marshland Rd about 50 mtrs up from Briggs Rd.
(2) Barry Brown, in Ohoha/...
I didn't know Vautier was spending someones money on hot rods! Now I know why I didn't get paid for work/modifications I did on his mate Peter Tally's Jagur XJC! It all adds up.
PK.
And same for the Carrs Road kart track, out the back of Wigram, ChCh, they're relocating!
Bloody ridiculous, they've been there since Adam was a cowboy
PK
Evan, I'm surprised you don't remember the early history of that car, (but then again as you were so young at the time you probably weren't interested)! (So you're excused).
The ex Fisher Capri you...
Yep, Ned Wilco was actually Denis Stanton, as you said, and I seem to remember his parents didn't want him to race cars and would cut him out of their will if he did and that's why he couldn't use...
Har ha ha, Jac, the only thing I remember about that car was that it didn't go very well, AND it didn't stop very well! (I spotted John bearing down on me in the mirror at the hairpin at Ruapuna with...
If I remember rightly, the Jag engine in Frank's Humber/Hilman was beside him inside the car and there was a tricky gear selector back to the gearbox.
PK.
Re the Katipo that Robby Franicivic raced/practiced at Wigram--- He asked me to set the ign. timing on the Chev engine in it, I said "where would you like it set?" "50 degrees" he said. "What?...
And Dymonds Steak House in Ch Ch.
PK.
Har ha ha, yeah Steve did bring a transam-type car here to race in our NZ summer series that didn't comply to the rules but somhow he managed to get permission to race, he also brought a V12 BMW road...
Har ha ha, yeah Steve did bring a transam-type car here to race in our NZ summer series that didn't comply to the rules but somhow he managed to get permission to race, he also brought a V12 BMW road...
I seem to remember a Triumph 2000 engined fb Anglia at Levin when we (OSCA) was up there to start a N I branch. (I could be wrong though!)
PK.
Btw David, the Kerry Rout Anglia you mention above was actually owned by Ron Rutherford (famous for the 250M Zephyr engined single seater which may have been originally built by Wally Darrel).(And of...
Yes Thunder, I remember Frank Shuter well, he was a used/new car salesman at Hains Motors in ChCh as I was finishing my apprenticship there, (early to mid '60s). That must have been after his...