Is there any film of thes in action? or is it all locked away by TVNZ with Tony Palmer dribbling nonsense, sorry commentating
Is there any film of thes in action? or is it all locked away by TVNZ with Tony Palmer dribbling nonsense, sorry commentating
Tony had a passion for motorsport and we would most probably not have seen half of it if it was not for his passion. Yea he used to get excited and make comments, but I have heard worse from other tv people. Actually spent a bit of time with Tony a couple of months back at a birthday weekend, and he still looks the same. We actually talked about some off the older days and how the coverage was done with 1 or 2 cameras.
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Here is a couple of Shellsport cars that I have had a bit to do with that are still racing in current South Island Classic meetings.
Carlo, thanks for posting these. Whats the history on the Escort?
Here is a couple of Shellsport cars that I have had a bit to do with that are still racing in current South Island Classic meetings.
Built and run by Fred Bailey then run by John Armstrong (Lombard Finance) and Allan Farr (Auto Performance) brought the car off Army in 1981 and has run it ever since, Shellsport, OSCA, South Island Endurance Series, put it away for a few years then has brought it out again to run in Classic events. I have been known to have to odd run in it too as that particular photo shows.
Timaru was a bit of a hotbed as far as Shellsport went, Kevin Ryan with Big Bertha which a I assisted him with, Warren Burt with a selection of Corollas and Starlets, Wayne Murdoch and the Avenger along with Faraway and the Escort.
Currently there are a few more cars or replica cars around the district, plus Grant Aitken has his car sitting above his office and John Gobbe has found and brought up somewhere around 11 -12 old Shellsport cars and is restoring all of them.
It sure was great highly contested racing with no quarter either given or expected
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Steve, sounds like a great article in there for the next NZCC South Island Special
Cheers
Lee
Lee you posted some wonderful pictures in the section pn Baypark, one image I think is in order, Cook, Burt, Harrington and Murdoch The second one has another 4 cars which include Tony Marsh I think as well as a white Mk1 Escort and a Mustard Mk2, any chance of posting them here?Steve, sounds like a great article in there for the next NZCC South Island Special
Cheers
Lee
I have some photos of Ian Maskell's Shellsport Datsun 1200 Coupe. We will be at the Skope meeting and would like to meet anyone who remembers the car.
Remember the Fuel crisis, still have my " TUESDAY " sticker from my 1967 TR4a, Targa Top roadster, car was sold in 1985, to pay the deposit on a house, how sad, as the car had done the 1979/80 Bardhal series hillclimbs for Triumph car Club - Auckland, got the car from Russ Abbott, who ran a workshop in Greenlane Auckland , specialising in TR's and other Triumphs, as had a GT6 before that, belive that Russ went off into the boat world. you can't usually drive your boat to work, but you can drive your sports / racing car.
Hope this is on topic..just sharing a trademe find...any pics of these being used
11 - 12 old ShellSport cars? That is amazing! Do you have any details on some of the cars he has? He could have his own private ShellSport tribute race. Amazing foresight, those will be the next thing sought out by collectors I think.
Been a tad busy to follow up on a few things but I was talking with Mike Johnson from Ashburton today, many years ago his brother "Butch" brought Noddy Murdoch's Shellsport Avenger which he raced in both Shellsport and OSCA. Butch has brought the old girl out and has repainted it back into the origonal Murdoch colours while Mike is about to give the mechanicals a fresh up and then the car is going to run in the OSCA Classic series later this year.
Noddy meanwhile is currently racing a replica of Rex Findlays car
John Gobbe held a meeting at Timaru at the end of the past season with a view to getting all the Shellsport cars out at one of the Classic / Historic meetings, he is /was going to contact some of the old owners about having a skid in them
Would it be possible to get some more info on the Shellsport cars and replica's that are around. I am trying to keep a spreadsheet of all circuit race cars still in existance n NZ.
Love that Mk II Escort - great to see these cars have survived and are now running again in classic events.
Here is a couple of Shellsport cars that I have had a bit to do with that are still racing in current South Island Classic meetings.
Awesome photos Nigel.
Looks a bit like the Ex Cooky , then Kevin Ryan 160j with different colours , rear flares and sinage
Here is a couple of Shellsport cars that I have had a bit to do with that are still racing in current South Island Classic meetings.
Yes the 160J has the flare kit that Kevin fitted, FYI they are a copy of the flares that Warren Burt had on the Starlet. Keven ran the car with Scope signage, there is a shot of it in the excellent shellsport clip on this website
Here's a few from the archives - I have a lot of mainly Black and White shots from this era if anyone is looking for anything in particular
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