Steve , yes the bacon & egg pie lives on ....must have been an era thing , BUT like you we still live it , Kylie makes one for the boys , but some times have to hide it as one gut bag smells it out ...and woooooosh its gone we pack it in ice to last that weekend , many more to be eatin as we ramp up our fun
Latest little escort we are racing , group one ...RS2000..great little fun car , first time this car been raced for 17 yrs..... loved this day with HSC/HMC....will do a few more meetings with it , but need to focus on a quicker grp 2 build ..
Well you've got a "Wheel Up" so that's probably fast enough Mr Sprague.............see you next month at Hampton for the Legends meeting....you better be their. Dale mOriginally Posted by Grant Sprague
I was going to do Puke on 1st April. HMC HSC Dale
..as a group of mates running up there as well as us ... its one or the other Dale ...Which will be the best meeting .
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Grant- concrete walls are most unforgiving when a car hits them....so I know from personal experience.
Pukekohe track is enclosed by them and so MUCH more unforgiving than Hampton Downs..........always your call
Puke??? Grant our last HMC/HSC meeting for this summer is 25/26th March 2017, Legends – Hampton – HRC. Dale M
Same weekend as first round F1 Melbourne LIVE on SKY ?????
You mean F1 slot cars Grant!!Same weekend as first round F1 Melbourne LIVE on SKY ?????
Yep I guess you are correct Nige but the opening round can be exciting.....re new changes & drivers , love Melbourne had plans to be there actually but things changed with business committments , dont forget to pop in some time ....
A car with Family connections, recently changed hands
http://rmsothebys.com/pa17/paris/lot...o-b-p3/1691507
Grant,
I did not know that you had brought the Alfa back to have it on display on Cameron Road. Well done mate.
" Ernie with his 1934/35 Alfa P3. He owned this car in the late 1950s, possibly just prior to buying the Maserati in 1957? "
(Ken H )
Ken you crack me up .... no not won lotto yet , but yes the Maserati came after the P3, only thing I remember about that car was Dad was topping it up with fuel after driving it around front of showroom where he had caltex pumps were [at that time] I leaned on the exhaust pipes .... strange how we never forget bad burns lol ..hope you all good up there say Hi To Ronny for me ....ok lateRon mate
Grant,
Speaking of Cameron Road, when we came out to NZ in 1990 I got hold of this XD with the front bench seat and a boot full of a CNG tank from an unnamed salesman close to Roly's lot. I told him we, as a family of 4 were going to take it around the South Island and he assured me of what great mileage I would get with the CNG set up. So we ferry over and I drove into Nelson and started looking for CNG outlets. The BP operator gave me a hard time for being suckered into believing the salesman as there was no CNG in the SI at that time ! She was a great cruiser although when we stopped near Motueka and left a window open while on the beach the wasps invaded and slowed us down a bit. Made it back to Tauranga and found that when we visited the farm we could get the sheep moved as they loved to follow the "family Falcon" perhaps they had picked up my habit of "sniffing the fumes." I tried to sell it after a year but it had a lot of rust and failed WOF. A friend took it and probably made it into a farm trailer or a "paddock racer." So there you have a piece of completely irrelevant information but after seeing the Pukekohe Falcon XD pics. I thought I would throw in another memory.
Sprague Falcon at Pukekohe. 1981. (Thanks Ross )
Hyndman's Family Falcon on the farm. 1990
While we were in Christchurch in 1990 we visited the Ferrymead Heritage Park and found this Brabham for Sean to sit in for 20 cents.
Does anyone know the history of this machine and where it might be today ?
Thanks.
Ken Hyndman.
Ken, they were made for exactly that purpose. Ferris de Joux had a fair bit of involvement. One still survives, sort of, on the Hibiscus Coast outside a hoarders place who won't let go of it. One was at MOTAT. Note the front drive shaft so that the wheels turn, electric from your 20 cents.
Ernie & Paul...... I am sure this was opening of Puke , Dad drove the Mk3 up from Timaru did Mt Maunganui , & Levin ...... I might have the year wrong ?....I was with Mum & Dad this trip seemed very big time back in those days .
It was this race at the 1964 NZ GP meeting.
112- Ray Olenius replaced by G. Harvey...was this the Golden Holden FJ ?
One thing to note in the picture of Ernie and Paul is the size of the crowd.
Allan,
There were quite a few of us there that day when Bruce McLaren won the NZGP. Jan. 11. 1964.
The Elbow Corner as Tim Mayer leads the field on the first lap.
(from the Ken Hyndman "box brownie" photo archive. )
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