Not only jappers , escorts and avengers , but the occasional BMC too . This is the ex Brian Hartley shellsport clubman GT that l owned for a number of years after l purchased it from him ( the less said about that deal the better too ) . l only ever did one shellsport race with it at baypark and this is a picture of me and some helpers changing from wets to slicks in the pits . Possibly taken during 1981 or thereabouts , car was fitted with an arden 8 port engine that l had built myself but it only lasted one race before blowing a head gasket . This particular weekend the engine had only been fitted the night before we left Taranaki ( some things never change ) and we'd left the wheelnuts for the wets behind in our rush to get away . Ended up going to a garage where a friendly mechanic let us use his workshop to modify the wheels so we could use them . The nearest drill bit we could find in his drill assortment was a masonry bit * rolls his eyes @ the thought * but it worked . The car was very light and had some trick stuff done to it , l used to use it in hillclimbs and sprints and l think l still might have the 0 to 1300 record at the Kaipikari road hillclimb up at Urenui in Taranaki with it .
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