In my "good vibrations" I actually tired to quote post #192 but the site failed me, have another look and think :)
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In my "good vibrations" I actually tired to quote post #192 but the site failed me, have another look and think :)
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So....Good Vibrations....:cool:
not with those exposed rods
No mate but when I got back to Timaru I learnt about policemans helmets no cowboy hats needed.....was one step ahead of John Wayne ......street wise ...........lol
Naughty boys, good thing i never did anything like that
Off topic I know, but too good not to share with you lot..Miss Atomic Bomb 1950
lol Bry I think I wud like to be the 3 stripper....... on top .. as for :confused:Steve E ....yea sure Steve....I know u
I am not sure if this is the right thread for it but I found this NZ herald cutting of my next door neighbors uncles car, the Coca Cola Blydenstien powered Viva GT. Alan Boyle kindly took a snotty nosed 14 year old around the track in this car at the end of the day and that was it, HOOKED!!
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Gavin Shaw runs a Facebook page in which he has been posting up his own old New Zealand racing photos, plus those of others.
A recent posting was this oddball, which nobody has yet identified. Its a second gen Camaro, and appears to be at Bay Park. The Camaro appears possibly to be a speedway car, converted to run on tarmac, and with equal sized wheels left-right. Its hard to tell, but it appears also to have a windscreen fitted.
Does anyone know who this is, and when this was taken?
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I don't know anything about this. Just saw it on Facebook and had to share it here. Its awesome!!!
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Grant, did you see the white one at Ruapuna, what a neat little rocket ship. Thought I had photos, but if any one has can they put them up please.
Rod would Lindsay or Brett Willis or maybe Ralph know whose Camaro that is in #209? I sure as hell can`t remember it ....
Rod .. that Renault { Fiat not at Ruapuna that I saw ) I am sure was a re production of the car ran in the early 70,s [Mullins ??]....just a rocket ship .....not sure on the lap times but guessing would be 160 mph on front straight ......with out a doubt crazeeeeee..... but guess it complies ....also talked to Brent that weekend [ Colins] and mentioned about going out racing with one wheel stud missing [stripped] that could have also turned out not good ....all a part of the old Timaru Thing......270k glad the wheel let go on a slow corner ..... Hey Going to catch up with Kev Ban at H/ D on 3rd May he is running his Honda Cup car this will be very interesting we will catch up again hope u all good .....
Grant are you talking about the Dauphine Chev recreation, from Nelson, pretty close to the original?
That Fiat is in Italy, heaps of them like this over there.
Just had a fiatbambina run at levels a rew weeks ago, it was fitted with a yamaha r1 1000cc engine,6 speed sequential, it was also a rocketship
Should be very close really as the same builder did both of the Dauphine Chevs, and yes really.
I saw that too and think it looks neat.
Not too sure about this V12 Lamborghini powered Fiat though...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KokeqiOAIew
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This was at a Christmas meeting at Bay Park circa the late '70s.They were short of big banger saloons and they rung in 2 visting American saloon cars from the stockcar meeting to run in the field.They had no windows a la stockcars,they also only had 2 or 3 speed gearboxes,they were set up to turn left,and they weren't very competive.
If you drop the photo on Magors stockcar sight someone will put a name to them.
If that's the case then that could be Ron Kendall in RX3 a week before it became a production car at Waikaraka Park. Was easy conversion out with plastic windows, off with flares, lights already out, weld doors, slicks with couple of grooves onto steel wheels for first nights then wets. had some fun with that little car. big boys used to bully when being passed, (often) but all part of it.
There used to be a Bambina in Cust, with a Porsche 356 motor in it, way back when......
Mine had a 650cc Nardi conversion that went quite well. It would keep up with my mate's Mk 1 Zephyr up to 40 mph.
Here is an interesting photo I found on Facebook. Note, its right hand drive. It wasn't uncommon for new American cars to be imported into NZ during the '50s and beyond, a lot of farmers ordered them, among others. But most of the ones I've seen have been four door models. This is a two door hardtop. It was posted by David Gibson, with the following description:
A little something from the Archives of a relative, that was passed on to me...
Visiting Auckland back in '63 he saw this '56 and snapped it.
I expect it was taken somewhere around Central City Auckland.
Something that is relatively interesting about the Sport Coupe is that it has the continental kit, EZI glass, bumper guards, grille bar, spotlight-mirror,another year (circa 1958?) hubcaps and it's RHD!
It would be fascinating to learn more about it if anyone out there (old enough, or knew someone who would know....) could tell us more....
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I found this over the weekend. Not sure if its been posted here before but its a highly modified Anglia that just looks cool!
Its powered by a 2.5 litre supercharged Volvo engine.
http://www.speedhunters.com/2014/09/...t-ford-anglia/
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Ivan Mauger
Thats ^^ just awesome Bryan!
The bike in the background in Post 230 is interesting.
In 1970 two Americans, George Wenn and Ray Bokelman stated that if Ivan won his third consecutive World Final they would have his bike gold plated. Ivan won and, true to their word, the bike was taken back to the USA and gold plated. It is now known as the "Triple Crown Special" and is displayed in the Canterbury Museum.
Wasn't the bike displayed at Tom Wheatcroft's Donington museum at one stage? I seem to remember it from way back on one of my many visits.
Quite right ERC. It was displayed at several "testimonial" speedway events in the UK in the Eighties and Nineties then spent some time at Donington before coming to NZ in the Norties. It came here originally to promote the World Long Track champs in New Plymouth in around 2004. Gary Moore ( a motorsport enthusiast and ex mayor of Christchurch) was in Hawkes Bay to attend the Te Onepu hillclimb as was Graeme Sutton from New Plymouth. Gary expressed a keen desire to get the bike back to Christchurch and on display and Graeme used his contacts with Ivan to make it happen.
Couple of shots I found of the first Sydenham Park Car Sale Southern 200. Can't remember the year........about 1980 ?http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/...psdntm4ytd.jpghttp://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/...pspqojkhzm.jpg
I found these wonderful old photos on a local site that would interest many people - great old cars that are very new looking in these shots.
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These people were evidently in a theatre production showing at the time. Great period photos of Minis at Dominion Motors, all on the old style rego plates.
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Cockpit view - X-1