The Halliday, soon to be banned, Escort.
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Thanks Sean. Why was it banned?
Does anyone know what happened to either of these Tom Donovan sports cars?
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I am sure someone else here will know more details, but here goes.
There were two Mk2 Escorts built up for the new Shellsport series, the Halliday one and the Bryan Hartley Zakspeed liveried one. Halliday first appeared in his at Bay Park in late October 77 at that race it needed about 500lb of ballast to make it legal, but it also made it a handful to drive, by its next appearance it was the correct weight, however it as well as the Hartley variant had squared flared guards and it ws these that eventually would make both illegal. i do not know what happened to either car.
The Hartley Escort at Manfield early 78
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The Donovan "Sprite" was bought by a fellow who now lives in New Plymouth, runs an EH in Enzed colours on occasion, he crashed very heavily in the Sprite, sorry, I can't remember his name right now, but I will have it for you soon. Good Holden for your book Steve!
Ok, so let me be clear, no they were not 'banned' From Feb 3 1977 Motor Action. The Halliday Escort was impacted by the same ruling
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Stewart Kidd was the fellow who had Tom's Sprite.
Thanks for all the great info everyone, on all these cars.
The Escort I posted here looks very similar to the car(s) in this ad and photo. Note that the car in the ad is running a Cosworth GAA motor and was built for the 4.2 litre category of the NZ Saloon Car Championship.
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Definitely it Steve, note the reference to the Zakspeed guards
Thanks Sean.
Anyone have info on this Escort?
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Sorry Steve, I was in the process of replying to this when the tail end of Cyclone Debbie came through on Thursday afternoon, we have just got power back on, anyway...Here is the Halliday Escort on debut at Bay Park and part of the report on the race the issues it had.
It was also the debut of Ken Sager in the newly purchased Fristcort and Escort 108 is the ex Blair Paton Escort now in Mike Moores hands
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Thanks Sean, thats great info. Hope you got through the cyclone OK?
Further to the info posted above on the MkII Escort, I contacted Rob Halliday to get the story behind it. Here are his replies:
"The car was never banned, and they were not Zakspeed guards, in fact they were X-pac guards that you could buy thru Ford, or order an Escort with them factory fitted. We ran the MK2 escort in Shellsport, then Don purchased Ken Horburns MK1 Escort, and ran that with a short stroke 1600 twin cam. The GAA was our old engine, the car was owned by David Honore, who owned the car when we ran in Shellsport".
The above I put together from a couple of emails from Rob. So essentially, the Hallidays built the MkII for the new ShellSport 2 litre series, then Don bought the MkI and sold the MkII to David Honore. David also purchased the Coswoth GAA V6 the Hallidays had run in their Capri, hence the advert posted earlier.
Neat car, I wonder if it survived?
The no 1 car is the typhoon , ended up in dave morrisons hands for a number of years, dave ran a 2 litre ford engine in it, I remember tow starting it with a tractor across a paddock at maungati, we used to race around the tarseal loop around his house in it.it is now in the hands of steve donaldson in chch.
The bottom pic is the typhoon, which dave morrison bought off tom, and had it for a number of years, it ran a twincam in it, then dave fitted a 2litre ohc ford engine in it, I remember tw starting it behind a tractor across a paddock at daves maungati farm.we used to drive it around daves oval asphalt drive way that went around his house.steve donaldson from chch now owns it, amongst his collection.i dont think it has been on track for a few years, but when I last caught up with steve, it is all there ready to run.
Thanks Paul, great info!
Robin Tanner again in the Firebird.
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A couple shots of Paul Fahey in the RS2600 Group 2 Capri during its first season in NZ.
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Anyone know anything about this Cortina?
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Robert Bartley had one in the 72-73 season.
Could be this race at the April 1, 1979 meeting.
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Addis won the first race from Huxford with the positions reversed in the second. Fred Bailey was third in both races driving the Escort RS2000
Great stuff guys, thank you.
Formula Ford action now. These are awesome! Can anyone name names?
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Posts 114 to 117 are from the March 7, 1976 meeting at Pukekohe.
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Great stuff, thanks Milan.
More FF action from the same event.
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