There is more to come on the FURI cars 3 to 9 [ The Impulse ] and on to 19 these stories willfollow.
In the meantime getting back to Dunedin in 1984 There was a visitor from Australia Racing - Bruce Polain in this car - well this is my photo of the engine ;
The guy working on it has been identified as Graham Snape
The car is the " Wylie Javelin " built by Arthur Wylie in 1950. a very advanced car for its time - a bit like Hec Green's RA Vanguard.
A small photo - will try to get a bigger version of this photo and the SCW story
The field getting ready for the single seater and specials race ; The Wylie Javelin in the third row
The entry list for the event - thanks to " Annie Swain " Fb name - the real person [ TRS member Mark D - Mark Dawber ] was racing a huge Pontiac saloon.
This Pontiac - posted before - still have the car.
The Saloon entry list posting again
see the great Doug Algie was racing too !!
There are a couple of articles from 1951 Australian Motorsport and another from 1966 Sports Car World on this car I which will publish here once resized.
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