New Zealand OSCA Database - Histories And Whereabouts

[paul lancaster]

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It's not often photo's are taken of the inside of a car, this was high tech in it's day, 1988

Hi tony, this was high tech in its day, way before on board computers n stuff, I remember sitting in it, and asking him about all the gauges,he hadcables running off all corners of the car, running back to the dash, and the wee ruler gauges, that moved up n down as he went over bumps n round corners, which he videoed, in car , then watched the footage to see what was happening.u can see the row of ruler type knobs all in a row to the left.

[ERC]

Flagging at the Pukekohe hairpin, Rodger was the fastest of any car through there, bar none (and that includes the single seaters).

[GD66]

He was good, always trying stuff. Here's what he did to his Yamaha TZ750 Viko Special, today rebuilt and running. After taking a look at Rodger's proposal, the NZACU bosses decided against allowing it...

[VigursM]

Commodore went down the cliff on way back from Teratonga. Celestte was a few years prior, it was mums car until she left it home one day when Steve and Neville Agass thought it would make a good race car and proceeded to chop it up

[tmann]

[gokiwi]

and a couple more , hopefully when the house is finished I will be able to unpack and find the rest.

[seaqnmac27]

and a couple more , hopefully when the house is finished I will be able to unpack and find the rest.

Great bit of history all in one shot. Munt Osborne and Vigurs, 3 very early Sports Sedans.

[gokiwi]

a couple more

[markec]

Hoping someone in here might know what happened to the Dave Waldron/Mike Johnson/Neville Agass MK1 Escort Turbo.I posted on the OSCA forum when that was still up and Evan helped out a bit by passing on Nevilles' email address.He was a great help and suggested I contact Grant Brennan as he was sure the car was in Auckland and he'd know where it was if it was/is up there.Unfortunately I never got a reply from Grant so the search ended there.
Before all this,Dave had done some research on some info I got hold of about Bob Holmwood,who is on here,and Bruce Mannon possibly knowing the whereabouts.I think these drew a blank also.
Then while I was doing some digging,I had someone tell me a friend of theirs was building a replica of the Raycroft car and the original car was apparently under a tree in Timaru.....Still in the Raycroft colours! Which seems a bit dubious,considering Dave sold the car in the early 80s.

The Mk 1 Escort changed sheds on the 31 st April 2016 , is in the process of being stripped to be sand blasted 7th May,all the colours under the blue show its origins including Neville Agass's colour scheme, even the hole on the left hand side behind the door at just under window height.It will be returned to the Raycroft colours and be kept as close to period as possible,with only some safety updates where needed.

[markec]

Its back home in ChCh

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Escort has changed sheds with Nick Donaldson doing the rebuild

[Steve Holmes]

Interesting. More here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/spec...1095578844.htm

[seaqnmac27]

Looks awesome!

[Roger Dowding]

a couple more

Go Kiwi, tried to enlarge your Escort pic, here it is again, if OK will do the Alfetta ??

[Roger Dowding]

where was this taken ??, and make that Gokiwi's post, sorry !!
and it is a Mitsubishi double oops..

[Spgeti]

Roger I think you will find that it is not the Alfetta but the Mitzi Celeste......Cheers, Bruce D

[John McKechnie]

An Alpha aficionado would know, even had Algies 6 on it

[Roger Dowding]

Roger I think you will find that it is not the Alfetta but the Mitzi Celeste......Cheers, Bruce D

Bruce I did wonder about the tail lights and a few details, oops !! will correct..

[Spgeti]

An Alpha aficionado would know, even had Algies 6 on it

Geez John, you could spell Alpha correctly.....Alfa.....

Cheers
Bruce

[John McKechnie]

Ahh, Bruce, but I am Orthodox and as such use the Greek alphabet ...
Alpha, Beta,Gamma, Delta.
You on the other hand use it like Alfabeto........Alphabetti Spagetti

[Spgeti]

You are thinking of Lancias.....Alpha, Beta, Gamma........and they made real thunder boxes....037, B4 ...

Oh Romeo where art thou Romeo......

Your Latin is a weeee bit off my friend