I will put my hand up for any working bee John, you too Rodney, best wishes to you both.
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Hirsty is the man, he is a 'real' mechanic, he fix's not replace's.
Done a lot of brilliant work on my toys over the years.
He has a history of 'making' things going way back to the 'Morrari' and before and has a neat little sports car at moment.
Here are some more photos of the car. Definitely a ground up restoration
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John,
Is that the same hood latch cross member we used to lean against and have a few beers after work and listen to Rod Coppins stories at Spinner's workshop on Thames Street in Morrinsville in 1969 ?
(Ken Hyndman )
John,
It is stretching my memory a bit but the names I remember at that time were; Bob Summerell (Summerell Panel & Paint (2003), 166 Thames St, Morrinsville, 07 889 7227 ) and Greg & Julian Tordoff.
If they did not do it I am sure they could tell you who did.
I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Ken H
That is a blast from the past..Graeme Williams..we did crazy stuff in Anglias back then.
Give my regards to Bob Summerell if you reach him..fond memories of his cheerful attitude always.
Also check your private messages as it stated it was full up. (Do I have your email ?)
All the best John. What a great job you guys do of bringing these cars back to life.
That car is looking great John. Really looking forward to seeing the original Cambridge Racing Team colours again on track. Loved the Fahey 70 Boss Mustang in those colours and the Anderson BMW 2002.
You are the last person anyone should refer to as a 'gunna'. You have done more building, repairing and organising in the last year than most others would have done in a couple of years.
Do you have any timeline set out for the car now ?
Car is looking good John. Such good history. cheers, Bruce
Agree with that. There's always some sad sack offering free advice, but you seldom line up bedside them on the grid. Car's looking good mate, and back in the days when it was running in the Cambridge colours it was still quite distinctive from the Mustangs and Camaros, so looking forward to seeing that again. Truth be known, it did look pretty good even in stock colours : was it turbine bronze metallic ?
Hi John, have a look at posting #18 on Racing on Sunday. David Hunter has a photo of the Monaro....might be worth following up.
Looking forward to catch up at Manfeild in November John.
Cheers, Bruce
John,
You may have seen this already but if you go to this site and click on the superb photos that Jack Inwood took of the Roger Anderson BMW you will get a very good example of the Cambridge Racing Team colour scheme.
http://www.bmw2002faq.com/topic/1483...e-shots/page-7
(Remember to click on the photos )
Cheers, Ken
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Grady Thomson at Levin 15.02.1970. The bronze Monaro was the tow car for it. My understanding at the time was that Rick Rimmer was racing this. Interesting that it has #13 on the window.
( The Cambridge car) To me the bonnet looks dark blue rather than black but the sun is shining on it so it could be deceiving. Also the leather straps holding the bonnet shut have been dispensed with.
Photo quality is not brilliant. My camera was a Agfa Clack. About one step up from a Box Brownie.
David Hunter
Glad you find it of interest John. I only had one exposure left in my camera (8 exposure film) after using the first 7 at Wigram in January and thought the Monaro the the most worthy car to use it on.
I noticed recently in the book Rally New Zealand- Celebrating 25 Years, a photo of the Thomson/Rimmer Monaro in the 1969 Shell Silver Fern rally showing it was number 13. Presuming the number was allocated by the organisers did Thomson then adopt it as his lucky number after winning the rally?
David Hunter
It's a cool photo John. No cage....gauges on the dash pad and those wheels....David has done well and he may have other gems in his photo collection.
Hi John - I've just re-read this and noted your e-mail request. I won't try to do it myself because I'll make a pigs ear of it but it's alright, I've got a crack team of computer experts on call (my wife and the young bloke next door). I'll get one of them to do it this evening.
John,
What is your opinion on the paint colours of the Roger Anderson's BMW on the post # 565 link ?
Ken H
Dulux used to have a historical listing of old colours and what matches them today. Try Dulux HO in Wellington John.
John,
You may find this site useful;
http://www.autocolorlibrary.com/
KH
John,
I meant to put this site in the last time but I am sure you have done this already.
http://www.gmh-torana.com.au/forums/...-paint-charts/
You will have to use that Cambridge Blue somehow John !
KH
Sadly I don't have many photos. My thinking when I was young was that motor racing photography was all about action shots on the track which required a good camera, telephoto lens, lots of film and developing and none of that stuff came cheap. Consequently I never put much value on taking photos of cars standing still which was all my cheap basic camera was capable of.
What photos I did take I still have so will put them up in the near future.
David Hunter
John - I'm only just over a week away from my 67th birthday and you are the first person who has ever called me a legend (lol).
As for Wigram; some mates and I were on a 3 week camping holiday in the South Island (in a triple carbed Mk 2 Zephyr and my EH Holden) and we made sure we got back to Christchurch in good time for race day. We were in such good time we spent about 3 or 4 hours at the circuit on the friday ( practise day) where there was lots of activity, race cars parked all over the place and heaps of people milling around them. It was really hot too - we were Wellingtonians and unaccustomed to tempertures over about 20 degrees.
So we wandered about and I took photos of various cars when I could get a clear shot. One thing I'm fairly sure of, while we were there I never saw the Monaro. Would have got a shot of it if it had been. It might have turned up after we left - or not practised at all.
All I can remember about race day was standing in a sea of people and not seeing much at all, certainly not the Monaro spinning. Either Wigram wasn't much of a spectator circuit or we just found ourselves in the wrong place.
Our 20 year old neighbour Finn came over this evening and scanned the photos into my computer. When he comes back from racing motorbikes at Taupo this weekend I'll get him to post them up. You might be interested in a 3/4 rear view of the Coppins Camaro in Cambridge colours.
I was watching him doing the scanning and said "I suppose I should learn how to do this myself".
He said "don't bother, you can't teach old dogs new tricks"
That's the trouble with kids today - they've got no respect.
David
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Found this Team Cambridge sticker on www.cabbagetreecornermedia.com. Sorry about quality but check web site for what appears to be an original.
Some interesting images on this site of Rod Coppins in the Zephyr Corvette on a gravel hillclimb.
Great progress John - looking forward to seeing the car on track again.
Gavin Shaw pic from Grady's Bronze Era...
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Looking good John!
Hello John, I hope this finds you well..
How is our favorite Monaro coming along ?
I came across this photo I took at Warwick Farm in 1970 and Norm Beechey is chasing Pete Geoghegan's Mustang in his Monaro.
It looks like the Monaro was handling as it should on this high speed corner.
Sorry the quality is not great but it does capture a scene of the fun times we had at the "Farm."
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( Ken Hyndman..photo)
Sorry John for not having your Monaro on film.
I did this of Beechey in action just for you.
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( Ken Hyndman photo )
Sent you an Email John re the plates....
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I couldn't have put it better, well said.
Bruce.
Thats a great idea getting replica plates made John. They really help complete the detail of the car and help finish it off. Its that attention to detail that us car nuts love.
This is a Holman-Moody Galaxie stock car I have just finished writing a story on for Muscle Car Digital Magazine. The owner/restorer John Craft did likewise, having replica plates made like those from when his car raced at Riverside in 1964.
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Here you go John,
I got my Dunlop decals here and they are dead nuts right.
http://www.retro-uk.com/page024.htm
Bruce.
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Here is my latest decal project John.
http://i65.tinypic.com/11ry5ps.jpg
Bruce.
The shocks are original GM/Pontiac part numbered with the right date code. I'm not sure of the heraldry but now my interest is piqued.
Yes I have seen these on vintage Alfa GTA race cars....bloody expensive to buy from GTA Parts....
Might look different here in Australia but in post #609 the top photo looks like 1362M the lower 1362N surely some one will notice?
Its interesting you guys picked up on the plate! I asked John Craft about this. His attention to detail is AMAZING! This Galaxie, and other stock cars he has previously owned and restored, including the 1965 Daytona 500 winner pictured below, are all totally correct to how they were built in period. He has also written several books on the history of Nascar. But he didn't pick up on the number plate! He is off to have another one made.
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