New Zealand ShellSport Saloon Series 1978 - 1985

[markec]

Hi there,first post after having my dad point me to this site tonight over Skype.
Long story short,I am trying to find out what happened to the Raycroft Escort,driven by Dave Waldron.
My father,Garry Williams helped build it years ago and all I can remember of it is seeing it at Wigram in the pits in the early 80s (I'm 33),so would have been 3-4 years old.
I got some help from the forums on the OSCA site,before the forums disappeared from Evan Munt who put me onto Neville Agass in the USA.A few emails and some digging from Neville got me a positive lead that the car is up in Auckland and possibly still racing.He told me to contact Grant Brennan,who Neville was sure would know about it.I tried contacting him through his website,but never got a reply.
That's where the searching has sat for about 3 years,until tonight...When dad told me to have a look here and this is where I found this part of the forum about similar old race cars.
So,is there anyone out there that can help out?
Also dad mentioned the car was ment to be on display at the OSCA revival meeting at Ruapuna.While I was doing some research,I found out someone was going to build a replica,as the car was apparently under a tree in Timaru,still in the Raycroft colours....Which sounded a bit dubious as it hadn't been in those colours since Dave raced it.

Restored by Nick Donaldson and being driven by him.Its back in the Raycroft livery.

[stevek]

Hi all, First time post, but myself and a group of guys here in the South Island are busy re-starting the Shellsport revival series, and we our plan is to start coordinating some races for new and old Shellsport cars for the next season.
Initially in the South Island, but we hope to increase this to inter-island meetings also.

Along with the series , I'm currently building a website which is to be sort of an online repository for everything new and old in relation to Shellsport.
I'm also continuing to grow our database on old cars and owners. And plan to do a number of interviews so I can get the good oil on the cars and drivers for the site, I want the information to be as accurate as possible.
I'm looking for absolutely everything relating to the series, VIDEO's , photo's, programs, results, magazine items, you name it, even if its a picture of a car in a workshop, this may help to complete part of a story in the future.

I hope to be in contact with a number of the contributors on this thread who have posted photos to ask for their permission to be used, but would greatly appreciate any assistance people may have.

Thankyou in advance
Steve Keene
skeene05@gmail.com
021-740-855