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    Here is another of the visiting South Island OSCA teams from that same tour. I think this is Gary Jenkins' wild Chevy V8 powered Vauxhall Victor. Note the reinforced wheels. This was a popular trick at the time for teams on limited budgets who couldn't afford the latest magnesium or alloy racing wheels.

    I'm sure this car appeared before either the Jack Nazer or Greg Lancaster V8 Victors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Holmes View Post
    Here is another of the visiting South Island OSCA teams from that same tour. I think this is Gary Jenkins' wild Chevy V8 powered Vauxhall Victor. Note the reinforced wheels. This was a popular trick at the time for teams on limited budgets who couldn't afford the latest magnesium or alloy racing wheels.

    I'm sure this car appeared before either the Jack Nazer or Greg Lancaster V8 Victors.

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    Pretty sure it first appeared 1973 Steve, which definitely predates the other 2, and is still the only one in active circulation, of the course the Lancaster one no longer exists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by seaqnmac27 View Post
    Pretty sure it first appeared 1973 Steve, which definitely predates the other 2, and is still the only one in active circulation, of the course the Lancaster one no longer exists.
    Thanks Sean, thats great info.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Holmes View Post
    Here is another of the visiting South Island OSCA teams from that same tour. I think this is Gary Jenkins' wild Chevy V8 powered Vauxhall Victor. Note the reinforced wheels. This was a popular trick at the time for teams on limited budgets who couldn't afford the latest magnesium or alloy racing wheels.

    I'm sure this car appeared before either the Jack Nazer or Greg Lancaster V8 Victors.

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    I was trying to remember who first raced the Victor. I knew it wasn't Jenkins. It was Alex Dickie. Dickie had been racing the ex-Neil Doyle Anglia Corvette in the OSCA series. Remember, OSCA was created because a group of South Island Allcomer racers were unhappy with MSNZ for culling the Allcomers from the NZ Championship following the 1967 season. So they got together and started Open Saloon Car Association.

    But in the early 1970s, OSCA decided to start cleaning up its rules, and getting the cars back to having the correct silhouette, so the old Allcomers were once again without anywhere to race.

    So Dickie took all the running gear from the Anglia it put it into a newly built Victory. Tony Mann owns this car now amongst his collection which includes the Sidchrome Imp and the Mike Fitzgerald etc V8 Capri.

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