Bay Park Final Event - Easter 1993

[Kiwiboss]

Ok so that would be the mustang Dale took to Taupo....&.. gave it the good hot roding re tyres , brakes , engine ,diff, suspension etc etc etc , [Dale would remember this] I think Dale got a shock with the limited rules etc that we had to conform to .....Dale arrived at Taupo & got a wee shock as to how fast our cars were in comparison to his ...... no disrespect to Dale as we had been running for a long time .....prior ...all good fun eh Dale ... Hey what happened to Rob's car ?????? neat car neat guy use to do carbs etc ??

No Grant that wasn't me, i never raced pre 65! i ended up with Johns(McKechnie) Mustang in a deal with John Espagne and only raced it at Taupo club days and some Corvette track days but only ever at Taupo, i then ran it with Jim Crystals inter-marque classic group, me and Rayden Smith had some great battles, Lex Linkletter in his escort and Reece Killingback(AKA Mario) pacer valiant!! Jim hated the American V8's and the only reason he let me race the Mustang was it was still road legal and Raydens escort could beat me!! it had and engine i built for $800 and that continued to run for many years well after i sold it to Deano in which i traded a 67 Mustang road car he owned. That Mustang was the cheapest classic racing i ever done, it all went down hill from there money wise, hmmm the word SUCKER comes to mind.

Espagne purchased Robs red Mustang fastback and put Reece into it for racing, by that time i had finished my next mustang fastback, the blue one which i only raced 3 times before been sold to Hoffman and he still races it today!! by that time we started doing the MG Classic meetings(on this weekend) but Espagne didn't like racing the mustang himself and sold it to Dines McConnell here in TGA and bought a Porsche, the mustang now lives down Wellington way and shows up at the odd MG classic meeting, all cheap fun back then

Deano i reckon has had the biggest bang for buck than any of us wouldn't you agree John(McKechnie) and its still a cool car with lots of great NZ history

Dale M