I think the Teretonga meeting is a club meeting, not a "Classic Meeting" but with a Classic Theme. Perhaps if Dale Mathers is so concerned about the type of entries at Teretonga he could organise a large group of HMC cars to visit the South Island. Interisland travel is possible. Ask the South Islanders who travel to HD each year. I am sure the race promoters would be very pleased to have them.
Shit it doesn`t take much for the claws to come out! What you guys don`t seem to get it is that HMC is not anti South Island, we are trying to establish a group of `period correct' muscle cars that can run at Classic or Historic meetings, wherever they may be held, not only for the enjoyment of the drivers, but also for the punters, who if judging by the interest in the HMC cars at the Denny Hulme Festival, are very keen on what we are doing. When we get Rodger Cunningham coming all the way from Invercargill up to HD with his Mustang, it seems that he also `gets' what we are trying to do . Who knows within the next couple of years we could very well all come down to one or two of the southern tracks which would be good, but can we at least get up and running first, and not get shafted by self serving promoters, other events date clashes, and probably most of all, the tall poppy syndicate. Then you may have some more videos and photos of southern meetings which I thought this thread was about!Originally Posted by grelley
Last edited by fullnoise68; 03-21-2013 at 03:04 AM.
Thank you Grelley, someone has finally got it? a “Club Meeting” but advertised as a “Classic Event”, this seems to be the South Island way. If they would only promote it like that then there would be no argument, all types of vehicles racing each other, not a problem “A CLUB MEETING/EVENT”.
Back to historic racing, i would really luv to see a proper Historic Saloon group down south at a proper classic race meetings so we could bring our HMC cars to race, this would be a great spectate and Roger(Cunninghame) has started the ball rolling by making his Mustang MSNZ T&C/HMC legal so please you guys down there with common sense, get in behind and support him, but not with modern ring-ins no matter how small the field, it would soon grow.
Dale M
Dale, I think you are begining to show signs of delusions of granduer. What makes you think that unless we join up to your idea, we are not classic racers? It may surprise you to know that not every one worships at the agriculturely built American V8 [don't they all sound the same] so called muscle car? I would be hard pressed to go to a meeting that was dominated by such badly built vehicles. Now show me a Colonge Cari or a 635 BMW or the ex Fahey FVA Escort and I'll line up at dawn. I saw a 30 CSL BMW Bat Mobile in Malaysia once and spent nearly an hour just looking at it. If I came across any old Mustang would I not be looking at a Falcon and with the same apalling level of engineering? You are starting to remind me of the great Smoky Yunich who once famously said that Indianapolis shoul d be restricted to American drivers, engines and cars. Can't have foriegners coming over and make us look stupid can we? It may interest you to know, and given my advancing years, I may be wrong, But in the almost 20 years we ran Country Gents I don't think we ever had an American car compete and we had to turn entrants away every year. In fact you V8 people remind me quite a lot of Harley people, long on image and very short on engineering excellence.
Last edited by Dave Silcock; 03-22-2013 at 04:15 AM.
Ha ha ha, thats a great post Dave, I really enjoyed reading that! To be fair, I don't think Dale was trying to suggest there is anything superior or special about old US race cars. He was more so referring to the idea of a group of old cars all being built to the same regulations specifically to be period correct, as is seen in many countries outside of NZ. Many other countries have a standardised set of regulations to bring saloon cars together to be period correct, and using as many original parts as possible. For example, Australian Group Nc historic regulations are a set of standardised rules that are in place all over Australia. Therefore, if someone in Queensland builds a '69 Mustang, or whatever, he knows if he takes his car to a NSW or Victorian historic racing event, the other cars he lines up with will have been built to the same rules as his car. Thats all HMC is, a standardised set of regulations that people around NZ are adopting for building over 3 litre racing sedans.
Actually Jim, I think it is the other way round........they, the Mainlanders, supply power to us hungry Nth Islanders, so just put your machetti away thank you!!!!!!!!
Aw, Gerald you spoilsport, Just when Jim was going to do something constructive you stop him in his tracks!!! I was just starting to envisage all you NI folk rubbing two sticks together to boil the jug for your Latte's...
Yep, and since it is a South Island meeting, all the South Islanders who are drivers, spectators or organisers, know what they are getting and by far the majority are happy and keep coming back. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet! The North Islanders also know what they are getting and some choose to partake and some don't. What's so wrong with that?
Any more abuse from you South Island folk and us North Island gents will go down to Wellington and cut the power cable and see how you get on then
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