Originally Posted by
spinner32
Yes Jac, when I add it up I have raced a few cars in OSCA. Back in 1978 I raced the ex Peter Beck Truimph Herald coupe. Vauxhall 2 litre engine to a Ford Twin Cam gearbox to a Datsun 180B LSD. The rear uprights were Morris 1100 giving 4 wheel discs.
My next car was the ex Hargraves/McComb Cortina Cobra. The car was reshelled after the famous roll. Powered by a ex Fahey 289 to a rockcrusher and 9 inch diff with detroit locker and 15inch minilights on the front it was full of good gear.It was sold to Rod McElrea who stripped it out and the body dumped. I moved to Auckland in the early 80's racing a Formiula Ford. I was there when all those fabulous Sports Sedans were racing. Returning to Christchurch I was racing a HB Viva with a 3.3 engine when I was offered the Cossack Escort. After stripping it down and starting a rebuild I was offerd my dream car of the time, the ex Leckie Mitsi Lancer now fitted with a 12a rotary. I had 5 great seasons with the car until I had a tyre blow at Timaru, putting me into the bank and badly damaging the car. I had recently purchased my nemesis car, Jamie Stewart's HB Viva rotary, for my wife to race. I took over the car and finally managed a class win. This car was sold to Evan Munt as his first race car. in 1997 I was able to purchase a ex Brock BMW M3 GpA car, which I raced in Historics for 9 seasons. With so many race cars, and self funded, when a guy from Invercargill approached me to buy the Escort I decided to let it go. His first comment on purchasing was that he intended to reshell the car. I hope that he didn't. Around 2000 a friend was offered the ex Findlay/Haszard/Grindley/Hool RX3 coupe bodyshell in very poor condition. It sat in the corner of my shed until I moved 2 weeks ago. So we have it to his place and started the rebuild, which will be a massive job.
Hope my story isn't too boring. Regards, Pete
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