New Zealand Historic Saloon Cars Under HRC

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Great to have Rayden Smith confirm today he plans to enter the 2016 Gulf Festival with Historic Saloon Cars.

This is another hugely important piece of New Zealand motorsport history, being the Willment Racing Escort twin-cam purchased by Jim Carney out of the UK in 1969 for the young Jim Richards to race. JR was a sensation in this car, which really helped put him on the map, and greatly increased his future prospects. He won the 4.2 NZ Saloon Car Championship at least once with this car, battling most years with Don Halliday in the Escort owned now by John Dennehy (as featured earlier in this thread). An awesome piece of kit.

This is a privilege to have Rayden on board with his historic Escort.
I, in a distant way have a connection to this car. Jim Carney was my fathers boss when he worked at NZ Refinery at Marsden Point.
He was in my Dads words a very nice man.

Welcome Raydon and your beautiful historic Escort