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as a kid at levin i remember nancy sinatra's "these boots are made for walking' playing over and over on the PA..

Hi peter,i will have a look back through some old boxes of info i have from the early days to see if i can verify the chassis number...i never took much notice of the number at the time....my car...

Hi tony, the vee is in fact John Pickford---one of the bosses at counties Toyota,you will have seen him at the ferrari festival at the wheel of a beautifully restored FF84 Reynard with similar...

we left owens name on the car as a tribute.....we actually discussed the whole land speed thing over a few beers at le mans qualifying in april....it was suggested by some that after le mans could be...

the car is in the US apparently....running in the le mans livery as we ran it....the owner messaged Jono on facebook a while ago when we had put some photos up.

i didnt realise how long it has been since having a look here.Bill and i met in 1994 to plan the le mans attack...it also involved bill getting up to speed license wise ,hence he did some F/vee for...

Hi Grant,hope alls good with you...pretty sure at that time other watson driver was parker johnstone from US...i was in my ex Bowe 81 RT4 and i ended up buying the David brabham 86 RT4 at season...

nope,got an X5 and live in Pukekohe....

yep thats close,my recollection is the car was built from bits and spares for tony george to drive and then Bryan took it over..i think he helped put it together and was involved with the...

An old mentor of mine (Rob Lester) use to say to me when somebody uses the above statement, they actually mean "with no respect whatsoever"

Personally; volunteers in my opinion do not face the...

yes he was unfortunately........he was a nice guy and he and i had some good battles the year he was in NZ....especially manfeild..i was in an 86 rt4 and he was in a swift...some good memories but if...

crikey yes rod,when those osca boys turned up.....when petchy almost got kicked out for abusing the gate keepers...and when kenny went ferral when a gate keeper touched dorothy...when the farmer who...

you are right jamie,i have hit the five oh ...!!,which sort of means you are fossil....they were the best days and i was so fortunate to grow up at manfeild with dad and mum running the joint and...

reminds me of a few years back when the aussie v8 utes first turned up at manfeild for the tasman clash and MNZ wouldnt allow the australian homologated cages in the falcons ?? and some intense...

they were good days carl..when i was starting out myself steve was one of my heroes from the shellsport days in the awesome little datsun and especially with the modus in early pacific,then it was...

yes ,i am aware of that,it was the inference that shell stopped supporting the shellsport class to tip their money into the 'academy' for young drivers when there was a 5 year gap between the two...

i am sort of struggling a bit here.....can someone correct me if i am wrong please.
Shell withdrew from the shellsport series at the end of the 85 season.......is that correct.
The academy as it is...

mmm...penny has dropped..if you are going with this where i think you are going Russ---then shakey ground brother and very ill informed and incorrect ...

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hey screwdriver we are mixing issues with issues here.my post was about the lack of numbers and young guys in some of the tier 1 classes.it was not a rant against MNZ or what is best or most popular...

couldn't disagree more Roger.
Tier 1 or level 1 motorsport has fallen foul of the economic climate and rising cost's in general for tommorrows talent to try and emerge.
The names...

this has been the issue down through the years-who gets to vote for what.
in my lifetime in the sport i still remember well when Morrie Chandler and my father were President and Vice President of...

Dorkland,sorry dude you just lost me with that.....
Not all MNZ is a problem.
agreed TMC is a problem.
A lot of barrows being pushed in this thread and general criticism's when specific issues...

i really believe the biggest change over the past decade or two has been TV/playstation/gameboys/music/facebook/computors/drugs/other sports/all night clubs/laziness/rebellion etc etc etc and not in...

Markec,i said motorsport 'IN' new zealand is fundamentally strong-i made reference to the lack of proper management of the sport.