Originally Posted by
Merv
Hey Steve you were saying how you impressed that we had two 65/66 mustang fastbacks racing at one time at riverside, well to take that a bit further we also had a 69 boss mustang racing in the same grade it was owned by Trevor Uren, and we had a 66 notch back wich was owned by Roddy Ingles, and another notch back owned by Tim Polard, so we had 6 early model mustangs racing in the same grade,along with Don Blacks A9X torana,Norm Bulers camaro, Woods firebird,John McDerrmotts really quick escort,Russell Lees escort, and the Jeffcoats flying brick,Andy tuffleys XUI torana and Allan Shuttleworths GTR torana so we had a really good A/Grade, field in those days and we had the top 4 cylinder racing team in the South Island at that time and also the the top A/Grade saloon car team in the South Island at the time ,but looking at what I have just typed it is quite unreal that we had so many cars you would cream your jeans for to own today, hahaha but at that time you couldn't wait to cut them up to make a good stock car when you think about now we where a bit crazy back then must have been, I know like Riverside other tracks around New Zealand were in the same boat so when you take it all over New Zealand we must have cut up some damn good cars to go racing but boy didn't we enjoy every minute of it I know I did
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