Hi all,

My name is Mike Feisst and I have been attending motorsport events since the second NZIGP at Ardmore. In my short life I have seen hundreds of motorsport events right up until a month ago. I have to admit that I seem to be stuck in the 60's and 70's as far as excitement goes in motorsport. In the days before professionalism came along everybody seemed to get along and the racing was fantastic. As you can probably guess I now mainly attend historic events in NZ and a few in Australia.

I remember as a teenager going to the Tasman event at Warwick Farm and Sandown Park (during my OE in 1967) and being able to get right into the pits. I was sitting on the rear tire of Jim Clarks Lotus 33 watching the mechanics working on his car, when he walked in. Jim sat down beside me and we spent about 20 minutes talking about the Tasman series and the prospects for the up coming F1 season. Could you imagine that now ?

The saloon car races were the stuff of legends for us and the crowd really enjoyed the dicing and paint scraping on track. I was lucky enough to be at Pukekohe (old track) when Ivan Segedin raced the Fleetwood Motors Mustang and the speed difference over the Lotus Cortina's seemed vast. Apart from the Mustangs and Camaro's we seemed to have a whole pack on T/c Escorts. Some of the original cars are still around but there must still be quite a few unaccounted for at present. Does anyone have any info on ther whereabounts of these ?

I was lucy enough to have a 35mm camera and attended events in this time period using coloured film and have a collection of about 370 photos from then. Steve has used some to illustrate his articles on race series from that period and it is great to see the cars in some of their original colours.

Mainly for my own benefit last year, I started creating a list of all the historic circuit race cars that I was aware of. I have enjoyed the interaction with other motorsport fans in locating these cars. The current list has about 1150 entries in it and I am sure that there are stacks still around that I am not aware of. To me it is amazing the number of cars still in existence. How about listing off cars that you are aware of so that we can get such a list more up to date.

Please join in and help Steve to make this website a great historic motporsport assets for all to use and advance our individual knowledge and the cause in general.

Cheers
Mike Feisst