Tomorrow at Pukekohe: I see a NZ built Valour is on the entry list. I understand Chris Havill ran it at the Taupo picnic meeting last December which I missed.

On the list of NZ built FFs of that era we have the GLHs, the Cuda, Cheetahs, Keram, Beggs, Valours, the Kea I guess. It occurs to me that in that highly competitive 1974/75 FF Championship, of the top 3 drivers (Grant Walker, Brett Riley and Howard Wood), two were in NZ built cars - and the last named in a self-built (well in conjunction with his brother) car.

Both Cheetahs survive, as do all four Begg FFs (in fact the second car that was converted to FF does as well), we have Paul Dold's GLH normally racing with us as well as the Keram - and now a Valour. We know where the Cuda is but how far off being a runner it is I have no idea while I think Phil Foulkes knows where his old Kea is - and of course Phil has the Trident - a Kim Crocker adapted Palliser.