Not that day. I seem to remember going to see a Heron sports car though? I can't remember what else we saw, but you are right, a great way to spend a Saturday morning!Originally Posted by Paul Wilkinson
Not that day. I seem to remember going to see a Heron sports car though? I can't remember what else we saw, but you are right, a great way to spend a Saturday morning!
He touched up the original BatMobile that was bought out for a Motor Show.
There is a bit of humour behind the boys and the car, as one of thems name was Robin and he coped it.
Last edited by Rod Grimwood; 01-05-2013 at 02:25 AM.
Most of the restorations where painted by Lyall Martin of Lyalls Carpainters around the corner in Archers Road.
Can remember seeing them there.
He was well known in the trade for doing these kind of jobs.
Lyall was actually the first to be allowed to do repair and paint of Rollers under their orders. He would go to Aussie to do repair work for them as well.
That bodywork looks too American to be of French origin. Look at the wheels....very un French.......they had an obsession with disc wheels at about this time.....a la Citroen.
The car is about 1928, and being right hand drive, built for an English market....NZ ?????? I'm not sure that Moon was still in production in 1928, and also not sure that Oakland was either, both eventually becoming victims of the depression or before.
The Moon had a radiator in a similar style to a Rolls-Royce.
A couple more guess's.........Locomobile......Marmon. Someone must know!!!
Gerald, the Moon car I mentioned to Rod was a 1929, and another guy I know in Rotorua had a very similar Oakland, but dark green, and that was a 1928.
Looks like an Oakland http://www.flickr.com/photos/eduardoolivera/4849458195/
Agree. The radiator badge as well as the radiator shape confirms it. Surely, this car still exists in NZ anyway? Many thanks - I can at least file it under the correct make even if the date isn't 100% correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oa...dis_%2710).jpg
Last edited by ERC; 01-05-2013 at 03:23 AM.
Kevin Andrews very kindly sold me this Singer Bantam project, but once again, I didn't have the skills required to restore it, so it was on-sold to a guy in Waiheke. Does anyone know if it ever got finished?
I know this is Pukekohe and the cars aren't too much of a problem. It looks like a sprint of some sort but I have no other details. Note the infamous Pukekohe timekeeping bus in the background.
Last edited by ERC; 01-05-2013 at 03:38 AM.
ERC, the grey Riley is a very similar model to one that my father in laws brother owns in Taupo, that he has spent plenty on restoring and may soon be for sale. My father in law has amongst his collection a 1937 Citreon Coupe, which back in the late `90`s the late Tim Bailey ( Continental Cars) asked if he could bring a French guy around who was an avid???? Citreon collector on a business trip to NZ at the time. The price offered then was over $100,000 and would have been cheap if you converted it to UK money back then. We are going to advertise it in Europe shortly on the internet. I`ll see if Bruce302 can post some photos he took of it just before Xmas.
Pre War Car is good. The first adv. is free, and they have a very big coverage.
http://www.prewarcar.com/
Thanks for that Greg.
The timeing bus, bit of Puke history there, was better than the first timeing post i feel.
The gentleman with the video camera and yellow driveing suit looks a little like a younger Jim Short.
Herb Gilroys Cistellia replicar ,replaced McLaren in Jap eating house,.Really suprised you can tell from the front!!
Wow what an interesting field of cars in this 1967 race somewhere in Ohio.... Diggin the A/Sedan Nova
Tom Leake's Aston was a regular at Mallory and I never tired of admiring it.
One of the most famous of all UK Escorts. Dave Brodies 'Run Baby Run'.
This was the first Dino 246 I ever saw - and still on Italian plates - it was raced that day! For years, I thought that maybe it belonged to Frank Sytner, but it was a replacement entry and it was either David Weir or Mike Ogier.
Last edited by ERC; 01-06-2013 at 10:19 PM.
Nice shot of a Zagato. This is a nice angle for this car. They can look a bit awkward from some angles in my opinion.Tom Leake's Aston was a regular at Mallory and I never tired of admiring it.
That Dino is the same as the one John Samson parked very neatly in large drain 30 metres befor the spot Bruce parked his Cooper that spun on oil from??/ ?? car 1965? he just cliped the ambulance parked there.When John put his Dino in upto the door windows with a mitre to spare on both sides,to get it out several drivers striped to the last item and climbed into the waist deep water to hook the cable on,when Bruce went in the drain had not been drained, cleared of watercress ect.Had John gone in upside down who knows what the result would have been, not a nice thought
Whenuapai 1987 but this energetically driven Porsche was a late entry so I have no idea of the driver. No doubt someone on here will know.
Alfa GTA was a great sight, with Richard Atkinson's Ford V6 Marcos (now owned by FF driver Phil Foulkes) in the background. Richard had two Marcos at the time, both painted bright yellow. You don't realise how low the Marcos is until you park it alongside another smallish car. It makes an MGB look like a double decker... Yes, this is a plywood chassis car too.
Sunbeam Tiger. Either John Boyd or Steven Ward driving, one of several shared driver cars.
Another couple of pics from the Sports Car club's garage day.
Last edited by ERC; 01-08-2013 at 09:02 PM.
I presume this is the car that was in the Donington Museum almost from day one - the Maserati based Tech-Mec. As the same car was out at the Monaco Historics 2012, is this yet another fascinating car that has been sold off?
There is something "correct" about front engined racers that I can't really define. I think they have an individuality totally lacking in todays computer generated look alikes. One of two Scarabs now out racing. Once again, I am not sure if Donington still has their example.
AMCO will be happy with this - Lotus Cortina trailing the Minis. Mind you, I suppose I should fess up and admit that it is practice...
When the 1.5 litre F1 formula was announced for 1961 to 1965, many pundits saw it as the death of Formula 1. Probably because I was old enough to take a keen interest and read every report of every race, it remains in my memory as an era when the drivers had to drive so much harder, faster, smoother, to make up for the lack of power and it was when many of the great names came to the fore - not to mention a shift from Italian and German dominance to British dominance. BRM came of age so it was their only golden patch, before slowly sliding into oblivion again.
Last edited by ERC; 01-08-2013 at 10:05 PM.
The Tec-Mec was built in 1959, and bought by Wheatcroft in the late '60s. Barrie Baxter bought in from the Museum in 2000 and has raced it fairly regularly since then, before selling it last year
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