Quote Originally Posted by driftwood View Post
Interesting reading this thread and seeing the photos
I wonder how much info kiwis had on special saloon cars from the mother land
there was a low line space frame mk2 escort that raced here built by Derrick Walker
he called all his cars ladybird 1 2 3 4 and raced late 70's into the early 80's
he built his own cars and raced Fiat 850 sport 1 litre skoda 2 litre and the escort
In my own case there was no outside thinking or influence ,it was a common sense approach to build something that fitted with in the rules we had back then.Actually a lot of the thinking behind that car would have surfaced in a Anglia away back in 68 if All Comers had kept going .I have always been a innovator rather than a copier ,in fact I believe a lot of my thinking andi ideas have predated things which have happened offshore,and that thinking is still being projected into the present times where we are still comimg up with better solutions and resuilts for stuff that has been run "that " way for years overseas