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Yes thats how I remember it ,incidentally I became very familiar with the gearbox removal on that car over those Summer meetings,some weekends I was doing two gear box changes a race weekend ,then having to rebuild them both over the next week in readiness for the following weekend,NZIGP meeting I changed them between heats and remember we just dropped it down off the stands in time to join the cars as they were driving out of pit gate
Give me a clue please how to post photos please - bit of a techno clutz
Halliday ShellSport Escort, at, I think, Manfeild. Photo taken by Warwick Clayton.
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The Halliday Escort pictured is the ex Kevin Ryan OSCA Championship winning car. Kevin purchased the car as a roller from the UK and fitted it with a 1600cc BDA to run in OSCA. He sold the car to the Hallidays when he purchased Big Bertha from Reg Cook. Prior to Kevin's purchase the car had a very successful UK competition history as a Twin Cam.
Again this is another car that I would like to know the whereabouts of.
After Hallidays it went on to Ken Hobern ,some time ago he still had it ,Grimmy might know
[QUOTE=Carlo;7118]The Halliday Escort pictured is the ex Kevin Ryan OSCA Championship winning car. Kevin purchased the car as a roller from the UK and fitted it with a 1600cc BDA to run in OSCA. He sold the car to the Hallidays when he purchased Big Bertha from Reg Cook. Prior to Kevin's purchase the car had a very successful UK competition history as a Twin Cam.
Warren Steel brought it from Kevin, we fitted a Twin Cam sourced from Aussie, ran it for awhile, from memory had alot of issues with the gearbox and sold it to the Hallidays
Thanks Les, I couldn't remember the order of who was first after KJP, Steelo or The Days.
Dave Mck I will post the previous history of the car when we get back home in a few weeks time, need to check a couple of things with Kevin first.
Just received a copy of information resulting from the Shellsport Motoracing NZ Inaugural Meeting which was held last November and they contain the draft regulations for this class of vehicle to run as a category at future race meetings. The cover genuine existing vehicles, replicas, and any new car yet to be built.
The cut off date for elegible vehicles is 31-12-1983 and of course the maximum engine capacity remains at 2 litres with class breaks at 1300 & 1600cc
A copy of the regulations are available from The Secretary PO Box 16245 Hornby Christchurch 8441
Hi Carlo, Any info on who was present and the cars that might be around to contest this series ? There seems to be quite a collection of them out there looking for somewhere to race.
So that would be this car when Mark was at Puke.
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We missed the meeting which was held at Timaru as were overseas at the time. The Chairman / co-ordinator is John Gobbe who was the MANZ Technical Officer of the period and a great supporter of the class and who now owns quitea number of cars tha trtaced during those times. The Secretary is Dot Box with Richard Box and Rod Collingwood looking after Technical & Regs. While I have not yet had time to go through the regs and run them past the regs of the period it appears as though they are very close to the version used in the final years of the championship, eg cars with set back firewalls could continue to run but no new cars or reshells could be built in this configuration. Submissions to the proposed regs close on the 8th of February
At present it looks as though there are sufficent cars around to run them as a stand alone class at S.I. Classic race meetings, time will tell if that is to happen, I guess we wil lall know a lot more after the S.I. classic race series in Febuary
I have been trying to get hold of John but without much success to date.
Carlo I have sent you a PM.
^^^ Nice looking car. Anyone know what happened to it?
Seafield Rd Hillclimb, Napier, 2010.
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That is one very nice Mk1. Be nice to see it at a classic meet.
Are they orig BBS wheels or aftermarket product. I am looking for wheels.
Not too sure about the wheels. Here's a clearer photo if it's any help.
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Ah memories. Does anyone have a photo of (if I recall all this correctly) Reg Cook's car with "Cookie needs a sponsor" on it? Again if all is recalled correctly, the next time we saw him, we noted that he now had a sponsor!
That is a great looking Mk I - would love to see it on track for some classic meetings
John.......xu1nut. As you know the Amco Mini was a Shellsport car for a year or two, a bit earlier than the 1978 start of this thread, and I was re-reading your post on the ex Hartley car. We, should I say Angus, has just completed the fitting of the new engine into the car.....8 port etc etc etc. I am driving it at HD on the first weekend of the festival next week. I hope it lasts a little bit longer than your effort!!!!! We have only been for a 'burn' round the block so will be interesting. I'm sure you will catch up with the boy this weekend at Teretonga. He will tell you all the gory details!!!!!!!!
John McIntyre raced the Halliday Escort on a few occasions for his Dad when his Touring car career was going through a quiet patch. As you'd expect, he drove the wheels off it!
Hi All.
Here's what I think I know about the Datsun shellsport cars.! Please correct me where my memory has failed, or I'm just plain wrong.
The Schick Cherry and the Schick 1200 coupe (sunny) were Nissan Motorsport cars, managed (and possibly owned and imported) by Mark Petch.
Reg Cook and Grant Aitken drove the cars, Grant had a major at Pukekohe in the sunny and the car was destroyed. CMR built the new very radical 1200, to complete the season, which eventually went to Tony Marsh and won the champs in Sulco colours.
From memory, Tony said the car weighed in at under 580kgs, and made 101 ft/lb torque from that little pushrod!
This car had the cut and shut through the door sills to allow the extremely low ride height. It resurfaced in the early days of SS2000, running in dark green with yellow flares and a strong 1500.
The car is alive and well and living in Auckland.
The Cherry went to Dave Brown who is sadly no longer with us. Anecdotaly, Dave made mention after reshelling the car that the Nismo shell was different to the roadcar shell in a number of very subtle ways!
Grant Aitken went on to build the two 120Y coupes, with 1600cc L series OHC power. John Billington ran one in CoolWool GT before he went GrpA Commodore. These both re-appeared in SS2000, with the Steve Gill machine now sporting 2 litre power. The 1600 car went on to Alvin Watson and I now suspect is the machine Grant has back.
I'm not sure if Steve Emson's 1200 coupe started life as a Shellsport car or as a production race car. After some years campaigned by Steve it was sold to Rex Findlay and became the Findlays Bakeries car. Then sold to Glen Jones and painted black where it picked up the Group5 aero grill. Somewhere along the way it assimilated a pure magic 1300 pushrod engine, I'd love to know if this was the Nismo engine from the early Shick 1200!
Glen sold to Brian Roycroft who used it to good effect in the Auckland club scene and went on to win the first years of SS2000, painted red with white/blue tail.
It lost the aero grill in an accident over the hill at puke, the 1300 eventually cried enough and Brian rebuilt the car in white with 944 porsche style flares and 1600cc.
When Brian sold to concentrate on the Aztec cars, the car vanished for a while, then turned up looking rather ratty in white with green universal flares in the hands of Brent, the current president of SS2000 around 2003. He's now sold it on, I dont know if he really knew what a piece of history that car was. I'd love to know where it is now.
Steven Gillards 1200 coupe became the second of the Orano Orange juice / Aztec corn chips cars campaigned in SS2000. The lead Aztec car I first saw running CoolWool GT in the hands of John Billington, white with black flares, before JB got the Aitken 120Y. I'm not sure of it's Shellsport providence. Both Aztec cars are alive and well.
There are other 1200's, eg, the Barry Bould car, of which I only know post shellsport history.
Phew, that was a bit of a diatribe! I should start an early SS2000 thread and post photos.
Thanks for that, ts
I probably knew which Datsun was which back in the day but have long since forgotten:rolleyes:
tsillay - I have sent you a private message.
Hi Tim , Do you have any knowledge of what became of the Max Crawford car ( Dunedin ) ?
Crawfords old car, was it the one bought by Graeme Dyer who then got Grant Aitken to drive it?