New Zealand Historic Saloon Cars Under HRC

[Kiwiboss]

No Howard, your posts definitely don't come across as stirring, and you have posted on the correct thread. While HMC has its own unique set of rules which bare little resemblance to Appendix K, for people wanting to build an HSC car, they have an option of either using Schedule T&C, or Appendix K. And we're trying to encourage them to go with the Appendix K rules. After all, for anyone building a historic race car, why wouldn't they want that car to be completely period correct, as per the original homologation sheet? And why wouldn't they want a car that they could take and race anywhere in the world rather than something that only has a place in NZ?

Five years ago very few people in NZ had an understanding of FIA Appendix K rules, but as more people such as yourself, Grant Sprague, Paul McCarthy, Paul Berkahn etc build cars to these rules, the more others will begin to grasp how the rules work. And the more we talk about these rules, the more people will understand them.

Interestingly enough is that comparing FIA Appendix K, Schedule K and T&C, HMC is actually the "Hotrod" class, its just that we have strictly controlled those hotrod freedoms(which to some are too strict) but the allowances given have all been based on "like Era" components pre Dec/1977............this took a number of years for all the Directors and the MSNZ Historic and Classic commission to work though, many a heated discussion I can tell you BUT we now have a great formula for racers to build and race cars to that is stable year after year and this has been proven with no increase in the fastest lap times(at Hampton) for over five years............and we will not allow anyone to over step the mark............plenty of other race classes should they wish to do so. Dale M