My opening words to Dave Simpson at Taupo were - 'I've been trying to track you down for years'

He seemed quite surprised that people had remembered him but I described as being like a comet - he wasn't there, then he was - and shone brightly, and then disappeared after one final appearance.

I was reminded that he did the 1973 Heatway Rally. When I asked him about his mechanical knowledge, he proudly said "none at all!"