The old Northland Sp .Amco you got me thinking back to a couple of times we competed together,and we all know it won the 1st GP.1987 Steph. and I was part of the Aussie and nz Jaguar club that went to see Jaguar win at Le Mans {Le More not Le Mans Lofty scolded us to get it right!!} 96 in total and we all went to dinner at Jaguar house with all the top people involved over the yrs. Duncan Hamilton {Touch Wood a great book}John Watson the current driver,asked him whats the best place to watch? got no idear!! what about in the esses were the Ds crashed out in the first laps ??no when was that??any how after dinner was showing Ian Cummings and Tom wheatcroft some photos of Jaguars in NZ and the only one he was interested was the Northland Sp.as for winning we were a year early..Then 1997 Domain Hillclimb the biggest crowd Max Moselly ect was there and I had my Ferrari 500 Special amongst ,David Oxton Ralt and so on.never had I seen so many flash lites .to this day I have no idea how the crowd new I would be there!The Northland and I were close all day,in the end I did a 28.3 he did a 28.4 but watching eachother Don Suckling in the George Smith Sp. beat the two of us with a 28.0..Then a race meeting at Puke with a good field of the same cars that ran last week at the Roycfoft meeting including the Lagonda {Moores}thats gone to UK?I headed him of on the straight but he pulled me back out of the corners over and over,real fun ,he comented best race he had had .A little trick I learnt on the back straight dont put your hand into the slipstreem..Don Vercoe had made fun of the small bit of 2x2 timber I had put in to stop my left leg sliding around champion,but it worked real good ,the G forces was suprising as we were not going that fast, but no seat belt made the difference I guess.So I told him when I lapped him I would give him a tow.and as I came along side I put my hand out only to have it blown onto the Tyre,I guess gloves would have helped, but Stirling has said over and over if its not dangerous everone would do it.bloody stung you bet. Sadly for the car thats now in USA ,one of the beaten Riley drivers in that race objected to the car and went on and on ,the only reason that I wanted to join Waitamata VCC was to get cheeper ins!!!!so when my entry to the Chelsey hillclimb was debated over and over I told him to stick his club ,.Hell I belonged to 4 other clubs were we got 10% without being nasty I enjoyed watching him spin his Riley at 45mph.. last week!!1