I didn't know that. When were the gearboxes swapped? Did Riley do this? I think they were both purchased at almost the same time by the Bowdens.
I didn't know that. When were the gearboxes swapped? Did Riley do this? I think they were both purchased at almost the same time by the Bowdens.
I'm quite fascinated by the Chevy coupe. Can someone tell me whose this is, and what powers it? Is it still Chevy 6 powered, or was a small block V8 dropped in?
The rally photos I think are:
post #25
1971 Heatway #20 Escort TC Marshall/McWatt 3rd
1971 Heatway #32 1800 "Land Crab" Errol Inward/Morrie Wear
post #27
1972 Heatway #43 Marina Teagle/Harris 52nd (note GC2 was Richards/Jim Carney and GC3 was the Cowan/Scott Clubman that won)
1971 Heatway #5 Triumph 2.5PI Johns/Rowan 9th
post #28
1971 Heatway #4 Lotus Cortina Hodson/Mitchell 1st
1971 Heatway Fiat 124 Dinh/Chappell 11th
1971 Heatway #8 Cooper S Cowan/Johnson
Post 42
1971 Heatway #15 BMW 2002Ti Gauzere/Pommelet 4th
Post 44
1971 Heatway #52 Toyota CorollaTaylor/Foulkes 7th
1973 Heatway #21 Capri 3L Woolf/Woolf
Post 45
1971 Heatway #2 BMZ 2002Ti Hislop/Langley 8th
Post 46
1971 Heatway #15 Datsun 1600 Johnson/Chivas 5th
Last edited by tonttu; 08-03-2012 at 11:18 AM.
In the AMC article on the Total car, Glen Walsmley, the chap who the Bowdens purchased the car from, is quoted as saying that Reilly had swapped the Top loader & T-10 over when he owned both cars & they had stayed that way. As you say Bowdens purchased both cars at around the same time & were able to confirm this & swap them back. No reason was given for the original swap.
Steve ,Re post #44. Remember a name Lister i think in a Chev coupe back then but not sure. Sure i saw this car at Nongataha Hillclimb back in early 70s
Thanks Rod, the car looks familiar, I wonder if another photo of it was posted on here at some stage.
Driving the Escort whilst Gary rode on the bonnet is Don McIntyre, father of "Johnny Mac''.
Garry Simkin
Think that you will find that it was Judy Hanbury who drove and Mary Carney was the co-driver
The mini # 53 in post 42 and the Chev coupe were at a sprint near Taupo, on the road to Acacia Bay if memory serves me right, in the early 1970s. The red Hillman Imp is driven here by Gary Deakin who later raced the Heron TC sportscar.
The Green 222 mustang in the near to top pic is the John Riley car. this had Previously been the Paul Fahey car & may have been an X mark Donahue trans am car.
some were built in Spartenburg SC, by Bud Moore enginnering but this one, if i recall was a Shelby or car craft Build.
After Riley, the car was driven by John Armstrong, dunedin , then later changing hands To Rod McElrea ,ashburton.
I Rebuilt the Body work For Rod on a couple of occassions & re-finished the car , Firstly To Duckhams yellow & blue -white colours about 1973-4 .
later , while i was away in Europe ; it was painted Orange by another guy .
then, in about 1976, after returning to NZ, i fitted Cologne style Flares & painted it White with blue stripes over the top.
An offer to me , by Rod ; in about mid 1974, to drive a few laps in the car on a test day at levels was Gratefully accepted and often comes to mind as having been quite an experience for a 19 yr old.
Last edited by Rascal; 08-15-2012 at 06:42 AM.
Garry, the grass track photos, were they behind the milk plant at Kerepahi on the Hauraki Plains. That was a load of laughs.
No Rod, all those pics were taken in the Hawkes Bay area. LF 84 suspects the blue Fiat 124 is Mike Langley and taken at a Dannevirke shingle hill climb.
Last edited by bob homewood; 08-09-2012 at 08:35 AM.