Wasn't there gossip at the time, that, the reason it "flew off the track', was because he didn't have a sufficient outlet for the radiator, so the front of the car pressurised.......
We were annoyed at the time, because, having heard all about it, we were looking forward to seeing (and hearing) it go.......
I'm not sure, but what I am sure about is that from the next flaggie spot it was a terrifying "what the %$#@ do I do now" time, and I can still see it coming directly down the track!Originally Posted by SPman
As we all should know, Dennis was the engineer involved with he Anzial Nova. A great talent.
True. Is he still extant?
Here we have an example of the perils of racing your everyday car - Gerry Smaller at an ACC club meet on the club circuit at Puke, Feb 1970. A very nice little Riley Elf which met it's demise against the pole and guard embankment. Made even worse by the fact, someone removed the Weber and manifold when the car was back in the pits and the driver was being attended to.....
The lower pic is Mike Edgell (Randalls older brother) in his Imp, at the same meeting.
Club racers - the unsung little men who do it mainly for the fun....
Last edited by SPman; 03-08-2013 at 04:18 AM.
Lucky i had a sheltered upbringing and did not get rapt up with rascals like you Tony (Jizim) and uncle Jim and the rest of that lot.
Stockcar racing was very strong in Eastern Southland during the 1970's - here is a photo taken I think at Monaghan's at Brydone in 1974. It was basically paddock racing. Can anyone help with names etc.
PH**K, thats a long time ago, pretty sure its Kevin Woods in #2 with either the early 289 motor or it did have a 351w later, the 'spinner' is Peter Woods car with a 390GT, there is a slight possibility that it might be me driving it as the one & only time I did was spent mainly in that attitude, what a heap of shite that car was, steering ratio so slow you had to start planning for the next corner about 30 seconds beforehand& bump steer like you would not believe!!!. Point of interest, I think the rear tires were a pair of M&S [ mud & snow] that came with the GT500 that Peter Woods had bought as an insurance write off, then rebuilt & sold around that time, can remember the insurance company did not want a bar of it being a Shelby, probably played a big part in Woody getting into the import business as getting the bits to fix it was a steep learning curve at the time.
Last edited by Jac Mac; 03-16-2013 at 08:30 PM.
Can send you a copy if you like - just need an email. Was Monaghans the Pat that raced the E49 Charger in the 70's
Yes, that was the same Pat Monaghan, cant have been long after that photos time that Riverside Raceway just south of Teretonga became active, in fact construction was probably underway.
Here is Pat Monaghan in a Falcon at Teretonga Oct 1972 - a bit of a rough photo - but it is history - note control tower in the infield
Yes, thats Pat in the ex Ernie Sprague GTHO, IIRC it went back up the Sth Island before John Gillard brought it back down south, by which time Pat was into the E49's.
Jac, is that Falcon still down the deep south. What colour was/is it please.
No, IIRC it went north to Tauranga? with John Gillard when he shifted up there & bought or started a car yard. Car was always Green, quite a dark green with metallic that you could only see when clean & in good light. Ownership IIRC was Ernie, Pat, Ernie?, John... there is a pic somewhere else on this site of John at Ruapuna coming around the sweeper onto the main straight. Car was fitted with the option 15 x 7 globes at some time during Johns ownership.
Last edited by Jac Mac; 03-18-2013 at 08:54 AM.
Story doing the rounds years ago was when the GTHO was being recovered back down south after a meeting at Ruapuna. One very keen fan wanted to get a ride back south in the GTHO - Ok said the driver in command, fill the car with fuel and you are on.
Story went that it took around 160 litres to fill and the fan could have flown back and forward a couple of times for what it cost for fuel!!
I could envisage any one of the three southern owners or respective pit crew/followers making an offer like that
Imagine filling one now,
Remember mate got his new one and when it arrived was just about empty so went to local station to fill it and kept looking under car to see if there was a leak.
Rod, speaking about the cost of fuel. My HMC Camaro is 13 to 1 compression so I run it on 113 leaded race fuel from STA. At $195.00 for 20 litres, (that`s $9.75 a litre) it`s using around 2 litres per lap around HD. So using 1 20L drum for each of the 5 outings each weekend over the two weekends of the Denny Hulme Festival, I tipped $1950.00 into the fuel cell - which didn`t have a leak! The guys at STA told me Tony Roberts bought 5 209L drums of 118 leaded for the Can Am cars at the Festival, so I didn`t feel too bad after knowing that!
Be interesting to find out how much it is in Queensland when the 8 of us race over there in June/July, as it`ll go through about the same amount.
Last edited by fullnoise68; 03-18-2013 at 09:35 PM.
Don't think about it Steve, it will interfer in your sleep. Lindsey did figures on F5000 running and put it down to the calculator being faulty.
PS 2litre a lap is conservative, you feathering it to much fella.
Was working in WA for 3 months about 6/7 years ago and a friend of mine came over the for V8SC round at Barbagello. Anyway on the Friday night we went out for dinner with Rosco McGlashan as Al (my friend) knows him. After dinner we were in the carpark and Rosco asked if we wanted to go to his place for a coffee, Al never one to say no said sure. To my amazement when we went out to his garage I was totally surprised to see Aussie Invader III sitting in an open container in there.
At this early stage we also seen drawings of Aussie Invader 5R as well. His original plans when building it was to be done in a casino in Las Vegas but that part of the project lost a bit of momentum when funding was a bit tight.
Bloody hell! OK, you win! What an amazing site!Was working in WA for 3 months about 6/7 years ago and a friend of mine came over the for V8SC round at Barbagello. Anyway on the Friday night we went out for dinner with Rosco McGlashan as Al (my friend) knows him. After dinner we were in the carpark and Rosco asked if we wanted to go to his place for a coffee, Al never one to say no said sure. To my amazement when we went out to his garage I was totally surprised to see Aussie Invader III sitting in an open container in there.
At this early stage we also seen drawings of Aussie Invader 5R as well. His original plans when building it was to be done in a casino in Las Vegas but that part of the project lost a bit of momentum when funding was a bit tight.
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