1950s Road Racing Hot Rods

[David McKinney]

.....Arther Kennard's Healey/Corvette,turquise blue and black!!! (From Timaru/Dunedin???)...........driven with a certain amount of flare!...regards thunder427/MJ

I think he was from Christchurch, and the car was all-black to start with (in the 1957/58 season). Apparently the engine was a genuine Corvette - in contrast to some later Chev V8s that were called Corvettes. I think, for example, Dixon's first V8 coupé had an uprated Bel Air engine. The Healey-Corvette also had disc brakes

It made something of a comeback in 1966 with Graham Smith at the wheel, as snapped at Ruapuna, where his battles with Brent Hawes in the Tojeiro-Jag are still remembered