Wolfgang... formerly known as 'island' on the Nostalgia Forum...

He regularly posted there to get information for his book, I've not seen it.

SR3 chassis? I really don't know, but I believe Frank raced three or four of them himself at some time. There was in the early seventies a car built up by Rod Dale for Ted Dunford which was said to be a Matich chassis, but it may have been a copy. It's a very blurred world.

There is at least one photo of the Katipo in the F5000 Thunder book, I think that's in the Terry Marshall section of the book.

And now, after looking at:

http://forums.autosport.com/topic/58...chigan-matich/

http://www.theroaringseason.com/show...Katipo-s/page3

I am no longer so sure about the origins of the car. One thing mentioned in the latter is that the 'only original part of the chassis left was the roll hoop'... and as pics show that to be fairly narrow in both the SR4 and the Katipo while the SR3's is wider indicates it might have been an SR4 chassis.

But if that is so, apparently not much of it.