Sport cars of yesteryear

[Oldfart]

Brent raced it with the Jaguar engine. His "Special" claim to fame was when he raced it in the sports car races at Wigram and then fitted a type of hardtop to it and raced it in the Allcomers saloon car class later in the day.

He and Leo did get a bit of a hard time from Team Timaru over that but it did show that they were innovative.

Someone must have some photos of it at that meeting, it was a bit hard case looking.

Didn't the Lycoming do something similar, but 3 classes? I heard a rumour way back when that it ran without guards in the singleseater class, guards on in the sportscars and a roof for Allcomers. Then again rumours are not always too correct!

[Carlo]

Didn't the Lycoming do something similar, but 3 classes? I heard a rumour way back when that it ran without guards in the singleseater class, guards on in the sportscars and a roof for Allcomers. Then again rumours are not always too correct!

I can't remember it running as a saloon but it did run in both the single seater NZ Specials class and as a sports car at many meetings just by as you say, adding the guards