Beaut photos there Ross! Thanks for posting them.Originally Posted by BMCBOY
Great article Steve - really enjoyed the read.
Here's a few shots from the days you may enjoy.
Beaut photos there Ross! Thanks for posting them.Great article Steve - really enjoyed the read.
Here's a few shots from the days you may enjoy.
Jac, the Fahey car definitely had 16" wheels when it was first built and raced in 1973, to run the ETCC. It still had 16" wheels when Fahey imported it into NZ, and remained this way during his ownership. My guess would be it was later fitted with 15" wheels, possibly due to the availability/cost of 16" tyres.
Jac, you are 100% correct about the wheels on the Fahey RS2600. One of the period magazines I used as research for that article and a couple of websites that have info about those cars say they were fitted with 16" wheels, but I checked with Roger Townshend and he said the car has always worn 15" wheels. He said the factory cars tried 16" wheels briefly in 1973 (when the Fahey car first raced in Europe) but that they had tyre issues so reverted back to the 15s. Sorry Jac, I should have listened to you.
Thats exactly right Rod. The Fahey and Moffat Capri's were built with 16" diameter wheels. Thats why the Fahey car caused such a sensation when it first appeared in NZ. Nobody had seen 16" wheels on a sedan car before. The Halliday Capri wore 15" wheels in period, and although the recreation is a tribute to the original car, in many ways its actually a replica RS3100, like Moffat's car.
Perry Drury Launceston Pic ....
Very cool! Is this the same meeting as those you've posted above Ellis?
Steve
No I think its Calder maybe....Perry did a lot of Calder and some Sandown
Steve, well done on adding these wonderful build threads to your Forum, I can't wait to see all these Killer builds unfold, and ca't wait to see what you bring us next!
Build threads rule, don't you think Pauly!
P.M. sent Steve
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Pardon my naïveté, but is this the same Don Halliday who's now Takuma Sato's race engineer in IndyCar?
No but they are both great engineers, each deserve their own threads.
Had a bit to do with Rob and Don, This Don Halliday was mechanic at John Andrew Ford in 70s, won the BNSW championship with the NZ built Escort BDA against the Willment car. The other Don Halliday raced ( maybe built) Formula Vee here, now very respected designer?/ engineer in single seaters. Don and Rob Halliday cars built in first small shop in Sandringham before shift to Morningside. Steve Horne part of that small group.
And there is another Capri also being built, I believe for an ex saloon car , now single seater driver.
Yes there is another Capri being built in NZ - I had a chance to talk to the builder about it at HD earlier this year. Will have a great field of Capri's if we could get them together.
They also designed and built the 'Hallitrax" - a tracked Bobcat style of vehicle, back in the '70's-80's
Another Halliday special in the early 70s was the 1500 maxi motor that they fitted to the subframe of a mini, and joined the axles for the late Alex Isbey.
This car was known as the Mixi
Mate of mine and Alex's often talks about this (and the crash in Maramarua)
An excellent advertisement for rollcages, I remember when looking at the carcass
Well tested you could say. We could ask about materials, but I don't think we want to re-open that sore.
Rhys- yes, it would be exhaust.....ing
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