"Was this McLaren run by Tony Roberts? What model is it?"
It certainly looks a lot like the McLaren M16C that Peter Revson drove in the 1973 Indy car series.
(Ken Hyndman )
"Was this McLaren run by Tony Roberts? What model is it?"
It certainly looks a lot like the McLaren M16C that Peter Revson drove in the 1973 Indy car series.
(Ken Hyndman )
Ken , yes that's the 73 McLaren that Tony and I ran, it was the Rutherford short track car early in the season and then Revsons primary car after Indy, won the two other 500 milers. The engine came from the
Kerion Wills RX8 I carefully grafted it in so as not to destroy any of the factory parts. Took it to Wigram one year ran in excess 200mph on the back straight. Tony loved that car stable and fast, would clip off 55's at Puke no sweat. Now with Aaron Lewis has an Offy back in it nearly complete for Indy 2017.
who had it before that Duncan? ie do you have a list of its previous owners?
thanks
We bought it from a guy Ron Rickard in SanDiego it had a 302 chevy in it then, bad installation looked like it had been done with a knife and fork. So why not? we had formula Libre and the engine was available..........The combo was fantastic solid, heavy, stable car and fast. Aaron Lewis ran it at Indy in this format and said he'd never driven anything like it or with anywhere near the power.
Rickard got it from Chuck Haines at CanAm Cars who bought it and another from Jerry Karl who qualified our car at Indy in 81 with a Chevy. JerryKarl bought it from Salt Walther who had purchased it from the team.
Now a couple from the glory days of Wings and Wheels at Whenuapai Air Force Base, an event sorely missed by many.
#48 - Mercedes BB
#230 - Lotus 23 ( real or replica? )
#232 - Ford Cortina MK2
171 by Andrew Metford, on Flickr
172 by Andrew Metford, on Flickr
Tony Roberts again, accelerating hard
179 by Andrew Metford, on Flickr
Back to Pukekohe
Pinepac racing, and the Anderson brothers, before both cars got butchered in the search of outright speed.
173 by Andrew Metford, on Flickr
Owen Evans, winner of the Nissan Mobil 500 Wellington Street Race in 1993 - not sure if this photo is before of after
174 by Andrew Metford, on Flickr
175 by Andrew Metford, on Flickr
Owen Evans - Porsche 964
Carl Hansen - Triumph TR8
Tony Roberts - 1970 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 454
John Warring - Porsche 911
Bill Fulford - Porsche 964
Derek Atkinson - Morgan +8
Ray Williams - 1983 Porsche 930 Turbo
Stuart McCondach? - Ferrari 308
Dean Fulford - Porsche 911
Chris Watson - Triumph TR8
?? - Datsun 260 Z
Don Kay? - Porsche 911
176 by Andrew Metford, on Flickr
Robin Chadwick - 1962 Riley 1.5 Robin used to drive the car up from Hawera, race, and drive back home again.
177 by Andrew Metford, on Flickr
Colin Waite - 1958 Stanguellini Formula Junior 1100cc
178 by Andrew Metford, on Flickr
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Photo 169 and 176 are very familiar and memory envoking, The Corvette is how Tony Roberts and myself got to know each other. Tony arrived down my driveway in Bucklands Beach driving the ugliest custom corvette I had ever seen . He wanted to find out how to make it go fast and handle for under a 100 dollars. Mate, I said you don't have the money to do what I want to do to it, so we joined forces and have been scheming together ever since. The cars construction actually began with a bit of friendly banter with Alan Cattle , who helped me occasionally with my fibre glass 308 GTB Ferrari. I was in his shop one day and he and several other fine persons were working on fitting some huge brakes on Stu McCondachs 308. I stupidly asked how much they were worth and to my horror was advised that they were close on $40K. To which I replied I could build a Corvette for that , that would blow its doors off. Alan years later confided in me that he agreed with me but couldn't at the time. And so the Corvette became a reality. Built on a shoestring Tony even sold his birthday present barbeque to buy the Holley carb we needed. The car was a winner from the word go. The first American sportscar to break into the TACCOC scene. We beat the Porkers up on a regular basis. Every race was filmed from almost the same spot in the stands that the photo was taken. We studied the tapes to find our strengths and weaknesses and worked only on minor mods. 10K per year budget resulted in 2 T&C Championships 42 wins from 56 or so starts only a couple of dnf's. Owen and Bill threw a fortune at their Lighting Direct program and still we kept in front. Only when racing Ray put the big turbos on did we realise the end was near The Corvette started out doing 1.14's and we developed it to down to 1.05 dead just with gear ratio changes aero and other minor work. Didn't touch the engine for 3 seasons.
Of course Tonys a bloody good driver as well ...that helped. My wife called it the FRC.
thanks duncan, so rumours do come true. i don't suppose you know who had it and where they based. TIA
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