New Zealand ShellSport Saloon Series 1978 - 1985

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And therein lies one of the major problems racers face when bringing out their old warriors - particularly in NZ with saloons.

When you go to Goodwood for example and see beautiful historic race cars covered in scaffolding, it sullies the experience. Like many on here , I grew up in an age before belts, cages etc., and also the high mortality rate, but when you examine the real figures, it was mainly in F1 and top level sports car races where most fatalities occurred, not at club level.

At the risk of highjacking this thread, saloon car racing at our level with an older cage, has to be safer than say VCC racing where many cars do not even have belts, but is it?

Any sport involving speed has an element of risk, but it has to be a calculated risk. It can never be totally risk free and the minor percentage of extra safety from one tube being slightly stronger is minimal, given that in 99.99% of cases, the car won't be crashed anyway.

Existing cage built to previous regs, car fully trimmed and painted:



Engineer's demands to conform to MSNZ requirements for homologation:


Tell me this isn't farcical - just for a classic road car.