Yep ex - Schnitzer as bought to Japan by TOMSQuote:
Originally Posted by shellsport
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Yep ex - Schnitzer as bought to Japan by TOMSQuote:
Originally Posted by shellsport
...when I was 'Buying' cars out of Tokyo / Japan, in the 80's,one yard I used to go to had a 80's/ Le Mans Sports car on top of its office, no running gear as such,big wheel just sitting in place,still all signwriten up........but sadley 'Not For Sale',but what a great starting point...oh Well!!!!!
Dead car lot from the old Dukes Of Hazard tv series. I think I found this one on the HAMB:
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I just love the sections in magazines such as 'under the hedge' or 'in the paddock'. I saw a photo in a magazine many years ago that stuck in my mind. I was an Alfa saloon I think in a delapidated state on the side of a road an exotic rural village somewhere and it had a chain around the door pillar with a big padlock which was negated by the fact that their were no windows. Some time later I was travelling and went to Macau where I visited Teddy Yip I think it was who had a garage cut into the hill on the Macau circuit.
After that I rented a mini moke and drove around the various small islands that are connected by bridges. I came into a small Macau rural village and out the corner of my eagle eye which I have for tucked away cars, I saw something worth stopping for. There was the very car in the magazine complete with chain and padlock. I took my own photo and continued on my way. Chris Read-Arrowtown.
Chris, do you still have the photos from this trip?
Like the Roller on top of the shed in the wrecking yard between Hamilton and Cambridge. Style! At least some of it was for sale as I got a piece of trim off it I needed for my car at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by thunder427
Chris Read-Arrowtown
Myles, if you were buying cars out of Japan in the '80s, you'd have to be a multi-millionaire now wouldn't you? It seems those smart enough to jump on this market back then had a licence to print money.Quote:
Originally Posted by thunder427
I do, but it was in the video period of my life long photo taking and the vids are on little cassettes for which the camera does not now work. One of my many retirement projects is to convert them onto disc and there is a plan!Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Holmes
The story was a little more than a drive - My kids were reminding me of the trip not so long ago as after we had rented the Moke (I had to hand over my Passport as collateral which Kiwis don't like doing). I said I would take them round the Macau circuit and off we went but part of it in street form was 'one way' and not the way we were going. We continued on anyway but not without being noticed by the local miltia who took off after us. We headed for the houses (my passport being recorded by the rental firm in the back of my mind) on the hills above the town to lose them but boxed ourselves in on an ever narrowing downhill street that ended with steps. The kids were hooting with excitement over the chase saying to go for it, so down the steps we went in the Moke as only a NZder knew was their purpose. At the bottom I saw the big bridge over to the first island and on the advice of my wife who was becoming less impressed with the antics, she said we had better get out of town - and that's how we ended up in the village with the padlocked car. We booked out of the hotel, took the Moke back to the ferry terminal, got my passport back and left on the last ferry to the mainland that night - a day early. Haven't been back since. Chris Read - Arrowtown.
My friend, the Chief of Police in Macau, sends his regards. A great tale from a ageing hoon (pardon the expression) Nowadays you'd be a boy-racer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Read
Steve, yes, there was a lot of money to be made, I had put 4years into refinning my purchasing and import /export skills,with some fine people involved both in Japan and Melbourne, signed a deal to import cars/vans/people movers for an Australian based Asian company that was 3yrs in contract,worth inexcess of $5 mill only to recieve a "General' letter from the F#!~%ng Australian Government that basically said ...Quote; 90days from the receipt of this letter there will be no more 'Personal imports!!!!.....I should have got on the plane and come home,but I had meet a number of the NZ 'importers' in Japan and I figured the last thing that was required was another 'Punter'......I grew up in the car game as my Father sold 'New and abused' cars his whole life.his advise at that time was that there was enough people doing it in NZ...his advice was ....."think of something else"!!!.......but I like the way you think Steve!!!:confused::(:)
Whats HAMB Steve?Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Holmes
HAMB is Hokey Ass Message Board. Its the forum section of the brilliant Jalopy Journal site for traditional hot rods: www.jalopyjournal.com
from barn finds
I wonder what happened to all of these.
Last pic (car 99) is an early pre 1964 Marcos Gullwing. Plywood chassis of course...
Not sure where these pics are from but I'd also love to know what happened - to that one anyay.
An NZ car which I have not seen since I very nearly bought it in Rotorua.
The guy I went to see called it a Dyna, had a rear engine and memory says a coupled pair of Dyna-generator engines from a war surplus source, plane? It was painted brown.
I would have looked at it in the mid to late 60s.
Anyone have any further info?
The Dyna-Four apparently had two single-cylinder 500cc Lawrence aircraft-auxiliary engines mounted back-to-back. I saw it race once or twice around 1963 or '64 (in dark blue), and believe it was in the Bay of Plenty area a couple of years after that, but haven't heard of it since.
I took these photos at scrutineering for the first Pukekohe GP meeting
The last time I was at Ted Thomsons he was building a special with 2 starter motors of some plane 1961? he also had modified his Healy 4 bodywise?? along with his lovely 39 coupe,at one hillclimb Ostridge Road the V8 had 8 Ammal carbs, and to think he was deaf how he tuned it was amazing,then again was he really deaf???Quote:
Originally Posted by David McKinney
Thanks David, that's it! Is it more likely that these are 2 twin cylinder 500s? There are 4 pipes, called Dyna 4 ...?
Yes, I believe they were 500s
Hi David, not being pedantic, your reply #219 you said 2 single cylinder 500s, is it possible 2 twin cylinder units?
Yes it is possible. I only repeated what I'd been told:)
This photo was taken at a Pukekohe CC hillclimb at Ararimu Road, Paparimu around 1964-65. Not sure what colour it was then, or who drove it.Quote:
Originally Posted by David McKinney
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The car's origins seem to be several years earlier. At the NZ Championship Sprint at Aka Aka(Eastern Drain Road?) run on 19 November 1960, Eric Watt set a NZ Class G (751-1100cc) record for the Standing Kilo in a Dynafour Special of 34.62 sec. Not particularly fast, the 500 cc cars of Jeffares and Learnan were a second or two faster, but obviously faster the the existing class record.
Does anyone know who built it or when?
Stu
Was it the Dyna Four built by Ted Thompson and Curley Brown (see Vercoe page 110).Quote:
Originally Posted by stubuchanan
Quite possibly. Re-reading Vercoes story doesn't help, but Pukekohe programmes from 1963 and 1964 show both Robert Rankin and Garth Taylor entered it as the Dina Four, of 977 and 948 cc capacity. 1960 news clipping refer to the Dynafour Special so maybe they were 2 different cars with very similar name. Pity there isn't a photo of the Eric Watt car.Quote:
Originally Posted by RogerH
Stu
Hi While working in the bush the other day,collecting fire wood,I came across the remains of this rusty,trusty,TREKKA???, it look like it rolled,I am not sure if there is a body ,or bones under it??? Attachment 16029
Any one looking for a life long rewarding resto project
Where is it now??
Driving down the road a number of years ago and this is what i spotted on side of road.Me and my son pulled up,got out and took some photos.I noticed some more cars in the distance one of them looked like a Vailant Charger.Also was a guy with a digger and truck in the same paddock,so we went up the drive jumped the fence and headed to the digger driver to ask if we could get better photos of the Merc,when really my interest was the Charger.He was the owner of property and was digging up vehicles that had been buried for a number of years.What i saw was a pile of rusty panels,rear ends,front ends just rubbish.He was taken it to the scrapyard as the price of scrap was good.Havent been down that road since,but pretty sure it all ended at the scrapyardAttachment 17146
Here is the rusty ChargerAttachment 17147Attachment 17148Attachment 17149Attachment 17150
Wow, that is amazing! Of the 'big three' the Chryslers were always the poor cousins, both in the US and Aus, but now they're demanding really big money for the right cars. This Charger would be worth plenty now if its condition wasn't so bad.
Ummm...
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Hey John McKechnie, when most people get an old car out of a shed they take an air tank to pump up the tyres. They don`t usually need an air tank to view the car!!!!
One careful lady owner, low milage, always garaged......
Any idear where these cars are & if they are for sale