Early O.S.C.A saloons, 1971-75 era, any pics out there b/w or colour?

[Jac Mac]

It was bought by Don Peddie I believe, I remember him running it in OSCA a couple of times...then it probably went to the Peddie farm to retire... quite a few toys ended up there .....

The A30, IIRC there was one Ford powered & one with Triumph 2000 power anyone know more?

The Torana/XU-1 behind the Hammond x Crosbie/Simpson? Escort could be Peter 'bloody' Kocis (spl?)

All this stuff is not good for me.. If you wanted a wide rim..you made it... roll cage..make it...flare a wheel arch...just cut the inner out,weld it on the outside...fill in the gaps....Hell OSCA even paid prize money per event & then a bonus at season end on points earned during the season... Now what happens, pay a big entry fee, sign your life away in case you hurt someone, pay a fine if some turkey sitting 'on high' deems you were not far enough forward to actually pass...throw away perfectly good crash hats & belts every couple of years...dont even think about making your own wheels or roll cage, just be a good boy now and even though you can see the gaps in the welds of your MSNZ certified cage made by an 'expert', that little scrap of paper & the photos will stop it falling around your ears..use this fuel-yep we know its quality drops off after a couple of weeks, wont matter if your pistons melt, BTW, get the noise down a bit will you... Oh, and the prize money etc...we got over that..the new unwritten rule is that entertainers pay to do so in the name of progress...

[AMCO72]

Jac Mac.......you are a bitter and twisted old man!!!!!! Unfortunately, you are dead right.

[Paul Kirk]

It was bought by Don Peddie I believe, I remember him running it in OSCA a couple of times...then it probably went to the Peddie farm to retire... quite a few toys ended up there .....

The A30, IIRC there was one Ford powered & one with Truimph 2000 power anyone know more?

The Torana/XU-1 behind the Hammond x Crosbie/Simpson? Escort could be Peter 'bloody' Kocis (spl?)

All this stuff is not good for me.. If you wanted a wide rim..you made it... roll cage..make it...flare a wheel arch...just cut the inner out,weld it on the outside...fill in the gaps....Hell OSCA even paid prize money per event & then a bonus at season end on points earned during the season... Now what happens, pay a big entry fee, sign your life away in case you hurt someone, pay a fine if some turkey sitting 'on high' deems you were not far enough forward to actually pass...throw away perfectly good crash hats & belts every couple of years...dont even think about making your own wheels or roll cage, just be a good boy now and even though you can see the gaps in the welds of your MSNZ certified cage made by an 'expert', that little scrap of paper & the photos will stop it falling around your ears..use this fuel-yep we know its quality drops off after a couple of weeks, wont matter if your pistons melt, BTW, get the noise down a bit will you... Oh, and the prize money etc...we got over that..the new unwritten rule is that entertainers pay to do so in the name of progress...

Hay Jac, the 2 A30s you refer to could well be the Kerry Rout Triumph 2000 one and the Jeff Whealan Ford 1340 examples. As usual there are storys attatched to most of the old cars but briefly re Kerry's car--it was built by Colin Berryman, (I'm sure his name will be famillia to many here, sadly not with us any more), and used 3 of those little 35mm Webers and had a funny rear suspension linkage that promoted roll-steer.
I was testing it at Ruapuna one day and to my surprise when braking for the hairpin it sort-of swayed one way and my automatic reaction was to aply steering input to counteract it, then it swayed the other way, and so on and so on! Quite un-nerving! When discussing it with Kerry he said you just said hold the steering wheel straight and it might sway a bit but it always went straight. Unfortunately some idiot from Wellington in a MIni drove into the side of Kerry at Rothmans corner and the poor old A30 ended up like a banana and that was the end of that! And re Jeff's 1340 A30, complete with A3 Cosworth cam and 28-36 DCD Weber, (actually it might have been a Weber off a Ford V6 were both butterflies open similtaniously), it didn't go too bad but one day at Timaru it went better than usual! Why? Well there had been a bit of a "do" Sat night and Jeff didn't make it to his bed so went straight to Levels and the effects of the lack of sleep/booze was noticed by some of the others at drivers' briefing but nothing was said and Jeff really threw the car around that day! The following Timaru meeting the guy (whose name I can't remember) that was conducting the briefing made it quite clear that sort of behaviour would NOT be tollerated in future!
Them were the days!!!!
PK.

[Paul Kirk]

It was bought by Don Peddie I believe, I remember him running it in OSCA a couple of times...then it probably went to the Peddie farm to retire... quite a few toys ended up there .....

The A30, IIRC there was one Ford powered & one with Truimph 2000 power anyone know more?

The Torana/XU-1 behind the Hammond x Crosbie/Simpson? Escort could be Peter 'bloody' Kocis (spl?)

All this stuff is not good for me.. If you wanted a wide rim..you made it... roll cage..make it...flare a wheel arch...just cut the inner out,weld it on the outside...fill in the gaps....Hell OSCA even paid prize money per event & then a bonus at season end on points earned during the season... Now what happens, pay a big entry fee, sign your life away in case you hurt someone, pay a fine if some turkey sitting 'on high' deems you were not far enough forward to actually pass...throw away perfectly good crash hats & belts every couple of years...dont even think about making your own wheels or roll cage, just be a good boy now and even though you can see the gaps in the welds of your MSNZ certified cage made by an 'expert', that little scrap of paper & the photos will stop it falling around your ears..use this fuel-yep we know its quality drops off after a couple of weeks, wont matter if your pistons melt, BTW, get the noise down a bit will you... Oh, and the prize money etc...we got over that..the new unwritten rule is that entertainers pay to do so in the name of progress...

Hay Jac, the 2 A30s you refer to could well be the Kerry Rout Triumph 2000 one and the Jeff Whealan Ford 1340 examples. As usual there are storys attatched to most of the old cars but briefly re Kerry's car--it was built by Colin Berryman, (I'm sure his name will be famillia to many here, sadly not with us any more), and used 3 of those little 35mm Webers and had a funny rear suspension linkage that promoted roll-steer.
I was testing it at Ruapuna one day and to my surprise when braking for the hairpin it sort-of swayed one way and my automatic reaction was to aply steering input to counteract it, then it swayed the other way, and so on and so on! Quite un-nerving! When discussing it with Kerry he said you just said hold the steering wheel straight and it might sway a bit but it always went straight. Unfortunately some idiot from Wellington in a MIni drove into the side of Kerry at Rothmans corner and the poor old A30 ended up like a banana and that was the end of that! And re Jeff's 1340 A30, complete with A3 Cosworth cam and 28-36 DCD Weber, (actually it might have been a Weber off a Ford V6 were both butterflies open similtaniously), it didn't go too bad but one day at Timaru it went better than usual! Why? Well there had been a bit of a "do" Sat night and Jeff didn't make it to his bed so went straight to Levels and the effects of the lack of sleep/booze was noticed by some of the others at drivers' briefing but nothing was said and Jeff really threw the car around that day! The following Timaru meeting the guy (whose name I can't remember) that was conducting the briefing made it quite clear that sort of behaviour would NOT be tollerated in future!
Them were the days!!!!
PK.