Small world! I did my Teaching degree with Phil's sister Tammy in 2006? .She is married to Jamie Howe the ex-Black Cap. Strangely; she had no interest in cars!Originally Posted by Spgeti
Small world! I did my Teaching degree with Phil's sister Tammy in 2006? .She is married to Jamie Howe the ex-Black Cap. Strangely; she had no interest in cars!
Happy new year, guys.
I would like to hand out in the new years list a huge thank you to Terry Carkeek and Crunch for the rapid attention to getting a COD, and new log book for Ivan Bevins XA Falcon Coupe. This means that the ex Craig Pullman car IS legal , can run and will be running both weekends in Jan -and subsequent meetings.
Credit where credits due- mighty, and another genuine car joins the grid to satisfy the fans.
Be good to see this car again.
If you look on the ERC 'mix of pics' page, SPman posted some pictures a day or two ago, and the same John
Windelburn is pictured, driving a model A roadster in about the same spot on the club circuit about 17 years
prior to your picture Rod Model A was powered by a 427 chev, built by he and one Peter Philpott
Bailey- I remember John had the C & J Roadster with Caddy in it in early 70s, did he ever throw that around the track also?
He must have a fairly large book of old photos. Love dropping in and chatting, he is a living bit of NZ motorsport History and has many great tails and so much information on "The Old Days'.
John That is the one and only C & J Roadster in the picture by SPman I only ever recall it having the 427 engine
that Colin Prast got new from Tonawanda It ran in the 12s on the quarter, so it had a good amount of power for those
times The 'pace car pilot' from the north shore, could probably tell some stories of this car Hillside road and Porana
road saw plenty of V8 action in those days
Was good 'test' road back then, as it was not through road. North Shore Brick and end of road was just passed Johns entrance, with not a real lot of other places down there.
Ivan and Jason Bevins both sat and passed their comp licences today. Thanks Tony R for looking after them. Looks like they are all go.,,,, greatl
Sadly, Peter's ex Trevor Crowe Skoda won't be ready. Still awaiting a spacer of some sort apparently. Shame.
My people went over this morning to see about getting this sorted and having him there.
After all, it is next weekend, and the weekend after.
There is a window of time to get things done.
Last edited by John McKechnie; 01-06-2015 at 05:09 AM.
Where are the following cars now? (not technically traditional Kiwi sports sedans but they sure fits the bill) Moffat Capri, the Zakspeed Escort , the ex Thomson Merc. They are demonstration runs in all meanings of the word so surely they would be able to join in. I don't remember seeing a couple of the cars that are running before I left NZ in 92 yet the Capri and Merc were certainly around then.
Any updates on the Halliday Capri replica buildup. Last report Steve put up was I think before the last Festival and they were ready to fit suspension? Had been fairly quick progress to that point by all accounts but nothing since.
Add in the Tony Antonevich trailer Queen which would be more HMC but still another car that no one gets to see.
A few years back on here, there was a thread on an Escort that was being restored in Waiuku? I remember the talk about rear suspension mounts and gearboxes. I think a gearbox was hard to find to keep in correct. Was it the AWA escort? Is it still being restored?
Any chance Bobs Escort could be on display, even Grimmies Escort. Would still show the public they still exist and how good the engineering was back in the day. Surely they could have a fenced off area where they could be safely displayed. Add the Crowe Skoda. Doesn't have to run does it. Hell I wish I could see them all again running or not but I guess as my brother once said he ruined me by taking me to the car racing from 3 yrs old and he was sorry for that. Boy did I give him a bollocking for that. Best days of my life.
Anyway, to all who are participating as competitors or spectators, I wish you all glorious mid range temperatures and clear skies and hope to see lots of pictures on and off track - pretty please !!!
Regards
Tony
TonyG- will fill in spaces as I can-
Moffat Capri- Gordon Burr has it. It was running regularly at Historic meets .It is needing some work. It never was a Sports Sedan
Thomson Merc- was entered this time last year, but blew the diff in practice. Roger also races other cars while it is being rebuilt
Zakspeed Escort- I have no details.
Halliday Capri replica- I have no details.
Tony Antonevich- always send him an invitation -like others.
Bobs Escort- he will appear when he is ready.
Grimmies Escort- has had some distractions recently. he correctly feels that Shellsports should be part of Sports Sedans and wants to get his car active again.
Crowe Skoda- we are working to get Peter there. Car is stripped and preference is for racing not display.
Having a car for display is difficult to organize, especially when it is incomplete.
George made a huge effort, and spent a lot of time sitting with his unfinished Mustang for the punters with everyone appreciated this effort.
I also was getting the Monaro ready to bring out for a display, a hernia put a stop to this.
Has anyone out there got some more details for our TonyG ?
Also maybe his comments can bring some cars out for display.
Last edited by John McKechnie; 01-07-2015 at 07:40 PM.
Yep; great idea.
We need to find a place to keep these cars running in original Shellsport spec. Many have just been butchered, or plain lost and they are a big part of our 70's and 80's.
Peter Hooper who was involved with running a Toyota then is running a replica Shellsports Corolla, and will be there for both weekends.
I am keen to get these cars involved again, as I have stated here before- in Historic Sports Sedan class.
The big question I ask the world is did any MK 1 Escorts run YB motors during the Shellsport era, is so then who ?
Not that I know of.
They were twin Cams or Pinto 2litre or 1600 x-flow as the Shellsport rules stated only two valves per cylinder
Given that the first YB Cosworth appeared in 1986 in the Sierra RS and ShellSport folded in 1985, I think we can categorically state that no ShellSport Escort Mk 1 ran a YB!
Thanks guys. I knew the Moffat car was not sports sedan but the kiwis did race against it in period definitely in Aus, can't remember if Alan ever bought it to NZ. Getting old and too lazy to look. lol.
Hope the Hernia is treating you ok John. Nasty buggers in the wrong place.
I can understand the go versus show preference as well as Bob and Grimmies preferences which have been documented in passing by both before. Was just curious if either had had a change of heart
Regards
Tony
Howard- thank you for this succinct statement.
Dont suppose you also know if any Sports Sedans ran YBs before they stopped the class?
Of the top of my head, rod briery came out from the uk a did a couple of events with a mitsi starian - cosworth, and terry richardson hadi think a cosworth sierra block etc in his escort turbo.He may be able to confirm this
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