Graham Christison's 'Jumpin Jack Flash' Ford Pop.
Peter Jones, having suffered driveline failure.
Brian Bowater's XYGT Falcon.
Yep, thats a V8 motorbike! Aussie racer Wally Pushkey is one crazy mofo!
Kevin Delores.
Re MustangOriginally Posted by Steve Holmes
sorry for delay Steve.
Unfortunately it was written off in an accident.
was up at Tokerau Beach in far north couple week back, dropped into see a mate who has retired there, and there was a bloke at the batch-home across the road on the beach and my mate said, 'that bloke used to have drag cars and speed shop' went and did some checking and found out it was Dave Chung, he has holiday home up there, still lives in Wellington but spends lot of time up there.
sorry not been paying attention to much, Tony McFadden back wheel, Tony Lynch kneeling beside engine. Lynch is very smart engineer.
Graham Berry.
Now..... Allan Porter wasn't sure on the details of this car and driver. However, a facebook post by Bryan Thomas went as such: "Aztec Fibreglass, Laurie Larsen, Hamilton feller..327 with Smokey Yunick single 4 inlet manifold...Flathead gearbox...Tow truck would have been a 39/40 Ford pickup..Green color mebbe....Chassis was the old Larry Fergusson rail".
Chris Ward. Check out the ride height! Real '60s gasser style.
Thanks to a couple of very clued-up Roaring Season members, its been pointed out to me the XY Falcon shown a few posts back in this thread, is actually the former John Goss GTHO Phase III. That the car ended up in NZ after Goss was finished with it is common knowledge, but I didn't realize it became the cool '70s street machine Brian Bowater turned it into.
Interesting the colourful lives some of these legendary cars lead.
Norris Miles raced in this car in same blue with AC Gill Menswear sponsorship. Brian Bowater bought a Falcon GT ( to HO specs and maybe better ) off Ross Tebbs. Believe this was the car he had his unfortunate accident in. I think the top car is a different car to the curcuit one. He did run the curcuit (ex Goss) a few times but it was not really changed much.
Last edited by Rod Grimwood; 12-18-2016 at 03:47 AM.
From the horse's mouth. Sitting at home and a wagon pulls into drive and Tony Banks gets out. We go to deck and fridge, and start chatting about old days. Get to talking about John Goss who I meet at Sandown couple month back and that we talked about the old Falcons etc. He mentions the Bowater Falcon that he tuned for Brian Bowater on the Dyno. Mention it was a real strong engine and had a lever set up in it that ran along the tunnel to driver seat and you could change the diff ratio with it (2 speed diff) thinks it was 6 to 1 in low gear and into normal about 3.5 ratio. Tony did a few runs in it and wondered what ever happened to it and what happened to the diff which was obviously American. Information for Tony be good and I will get him on this site as he has forgotten more than we will all know about alot of NZ Motor Racing both on land and sea.
Amazing how things happen, have not seen Tony for couple months and we just sitting having a drink on deck talking about ole times etc and he asks out of the blue Falcon, 'you remember the Falcon that bowater had, what ever happened to it, I used to tune etc it for him' and I just looked at him and 'said you joking, come look at this' and showed him the article and he filled in some bits as I typed. He also reckons the top car is not the ex Goss one.
Last edited by Rod Grimwood; 12-18-2016 at 07:58 AM.
Hone O Drive Rod.... I will tell you a story re this at the Tasman Revival and a certain HO that touched my life.
I remember his Falcon and another one on Meremere as well but the grey matter is a bit cloudy.
Cheers
Bruce
Last edited by Spgeti; 12-18-2016 at 08:11 AM.
The Bowater car in posts 144/155 above has over riders on front bumper, dont think Ive seen a GTHO with these fitted in photos or otherwise.
what do you call over riders? I cannot see any
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