Last year the entry lists were a separate double A4 folder sheet that was inserted into the programmes. It was a generic programme so at each circuit the fields were different. Yours was either missed or it fell out.
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Well; that's a stupid question considering I'm working frantically with Historic classes including the Sports Sedans to ensure they do have a future space and place.
The Sprint car stuff on Sommet TV, Think you will find that is in America?
As ideal as it sounds to have a sponsor throw money at a historic class to get the cars on the track together, unfortunately its really not a reality. Historic racing the world over is the same, at the end of the day it comes down to each car owner putting their hand in their pocket and funding the racing themselves. The best you can hope for is that enthusiasts will put in the time and effort to assemble of grid of similar cars, and make it as easy as possible for car owners to come together to produce an interesting show for the punters which is what we've seen with various classes around the world.
Good time to repeat my view here that it needs more dedication and committment from us, the fans.
If we want to see these cars, we cannot just roll up and complain if they arent there.
Its our heritage and if we want them there, lets help these guys that absolutely need it.
A group of friends/enthusiast adopt a car and help the owner, dont hope for a sponsor for a class.
Most costs are in the getting the car there, entry fees ,tyres,and race gas.
Works out at about a $1000 a meeting, split costs in this group.
Owner will appreciate this and of course many long hours in getting the car ready.
I want 2 months between HSS meetings to enable people to get around the costs and time.
Get a team that makes it work- Reg Cook used this method in the 70s.
Forget the egos,and the cost, remember- Deus ex Machina..........(the car is the god)
Also make sure that Historics are actually racing Historics so these car race against each other instead of being pushed too hard , breaking things, trying to catch more modern technology such as YB and NASCA engines.
And give an up to 13 month ban on drivers that hit other cars to make sure these HSS stay true,straight, and unnecessary expenses are not diverted to unplanned panel repairs even worse if these cars are damaged, they may seen as too valuable to have it happen again or difficult to repair for example the Addis Charger, Algie Monaro, Running RX8, man, the list goes on.These are not 2K cars
My point is- to get enthusiasts involved , then give their car some protection.
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More awesome pics Ross, thanks heaps. And yes, bottom shot is a Cortina, but thats OK, its a very cool car, built by Roaring Season member Jac Mac, but owned here by Rod McElrea. The body flares on this car have always impressed me. Check the lift of the bonnet on each side!
Yes, that plate rings a bell, & name vaguely, there were some passenger indemnity forms floating around the floor with a signature on them that had a similar looking surname that I couldnt decipher at the time ! Not sure what has happened to the car now since Pierre has moved on to a spaceframe toy. Needed a new floorpan or at least some rework last time I looked at it, Pierre & the boys had been in a hurry to get the box out at some time & taken to the seat area x-member with the air chisel, didnt do much for the shell strength.
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so whose is the # 67 Capri Chev?
Tonttu, # 67 Chev Capri, IIRC thats the ex Bullivant Capri with Graham Baker driving
Quite right Malcolm-the gold Capri belonged to Tony Wypych. He used to live in Hastings but is no longer in the HB phone book.
The White Pages lists a T Wypych in Wellington.
Could well be the same person-Wypych is not a very common name though it is still more common than another NZ racer from a few years back with the surname Witsche Rudzvecuis.
Here's some photo's I took at the Denny Hulme Festival
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I can't help with a photo of the whole car sorry Sean, but here is an engine bay shot when fitted with the Jag V12.
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A Weber st up like that is rare. In 98-99 I trimmed a XJ6 Jag for a guy Fred, helicopter engineer . It had a v12 and this weber set up, and it was off a racing car. Does anyone know if it was the one ?
This Weber set-up was apparently out of a Porsche John.
Tony Mann had the Capri down at Speedfest, was great to see it back in the original Cardinal colour scheme
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There was this Essex V6 Capri in the Clubmans Saloons, loving that it still had the vinyl roof on it!
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Would that be Clyde Collins Fordina next to the Capri?
Hi Tony, The Simmons I mentioned were not the wheels that you had used on the car ( which were Hallidays IIRC and ended up in John Abbots collection of parts), but a set that Pierre had procured ( 15" ) to use on the V8 conversion, I had noticed they were out of round during the build process and was led to believe that they had been repaired, found out that had not happened 'yet' the first time I test drove it at Teretonga and steering wheel had a mind of its own.:)
I believe its the original Jim Kennedy (Greymouth ), Bob Slade and others OSCA car, would have to do some research on this though.
If my understanding is correct he must have this car + the ex Frank Ryan Capri + the Alec Dickie Victor + the Sidchrome Imp ( Brian Patrick-Jim Richards ).
One of these days I must make a post on this thread with ALL the owners of the SI V8 OSCA stuff, perhaps make it a sticky & that way I could edit it as reqd as info comes in.
Thanks for this Jac. So this car really has some history! I vaguely recall it raced by Shrimpton in the early '80s, as the flares are quite unique, but I didn't realise it had such a long career prior to this. Could this be the first V8 powered Capri race car in NZ?
Yes I think you are right about Tony having the ex-Ryan car, plus the Jenkins Victor and the Imp.
We have an OSCA database thread in which the histories of some of these cars are posted, and it'd be awesome if you could post what you know in here, be really fascinating reading: http://www.theroaringseason.com/show...nd-Whereabouts
Is the ex Ryan etc car the blue one.
Yes I think so Rod, though just to confuse things, the car pictured above was also painted blue up until just recently.
I am confused as well, as Tony sent me a photo of the blue car in a spot of bother a little while back.
Just been through my emails and it is same car, Tony sent me amazing last photo of it 'flying' in blue colours.
Will contact Tony before posting.
Email sent Dec.2013
Do you mean this capri???
Main straight of levels a year ago…. Not good, has gone through a big rebuild done by myself, will send you a up to date photo soon,
Have repainted it back to cardinal network colours it ran in the 80”s
Tony
I have been in contact with Tony and he has answered some of the time questions about the car, number 1 being the time that his accident happened.
This from email that Tony kindly sent.
In regard to photo, amazing shot and thanks that Tony was not knocked too bad and is such a keen person.
Yes you can post it, the photo as you say is a great photo,
Although the photo shows high impact the car was not too badly damaged, the
grill in the car now is the same and the radiator was totally untouched.
Bonnet only had a small corner broken, and no damage to suspension at all.
The tyre wall was 4 empty tyres deep before solid fill tyres, the car sort
of collapsed the first 2 tyres and then belly flopped onto the top of the
other 2 tyres, where it came to rest.
It took a good 3 months for me to recover from the crash, nothing broken but
my vision was cloudy for quite some time.
Even though I was not 100 % I started the rebuild the day I got home after
the crash, and kept working on it almost every day for 2 years.
The repair was only about 5 months but I decided to restore , which took 2
years.
The car was built by Jim Kennedy of the West Coast, Jim owned the Ford
Dealership of there, Jim ran the car with" Greymouth Motors" on front
windscreen as I have also done to give reference to him and his time.
Photos of this can be seen in the 40 years of osca forum posted here.
Then Bob Homewood, and Bob Slade worked and ran the car,
I'll have to check my records of all the other drivers were, Shrimpton?? etc
Mike Fitzgerald raced the car with Cardinal sponsorship in 88-90, in this
time he won the osca championship.
I always liked the car in the colour scheme so decided to restore to this,
it looked good then and looks bloody good now.
Ok better go out to the garage, loosing valuable time,
Tony
This email from Tony a little time later:
Just read TRS, Jac Mac is correct it is the Shrimpton car,
Also after Mike ran the car he sold it and Jim Bolt of Queenstown ended up
with it, it sat in his shed for 17 years, I purchased it from him in 2005-6
It was once painted purple / red and had radio Avon sponsorship?? Don't know
who ran it though.
Tony:
Now you South Island boys let fill the gaps, sounds like this car has a very long history and thanks to Tony's efforts is still here for all of us to enjoy.
A bit off the subject , but in 1980 I attended the Country Gents event at Wigram.
Sybil Lupp was there in her V12 E Type and she proudly showed us the engine they had been modifying to give it a little more "performance".
The car was an unusual colour which she explained was the same as that of a favorite gown of hers, a sample of which she had sent to the factory for matching.
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I thought the Bob Slade capris next owner was the Alec and Rob Farrer from Safa toolboxes who raced it at wigram painted white and red it was ford powered then they started a major rebuild including the wide body cologne flared gaurds and going to repower it with a Chev 350 as I saw it at Graham Bakers business Autorama car and truck wreckers yard Blenham road Christchurch.Next owner was Steve Vigurs who finished it as his first osca race car who painted it yellow under his shop southside motor cycles.Then Ian Shrimpton of centre point car sales cnr moorhouse ave and Lincoln road who painted it yellow and blue.It went into storage then sold again to some one who put it on the road as last seen.
I think this blue capri was rebuilt by Chris Blackwood who sold it to Tony Mann