Obviously looks like it had high roll centres compared to the Williment car !
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Obviously looks like it had high roll centres compared to the Williment car !
Good to hear from you Shirley, must catch up.
Bung Singh
I saw the sleepyhead capri in a backyard on Reeves road in Pakuranga around 1980. From memory the body moulds were there too.
If you saw the Sleepyhead Capri in Reeves Road Pakuranga that was were Bill Leckie lived. I used to live not far from there.
Thats interesting! Can you recall if it was a complete car, with wheels, engine etc, or just a bodyshell? If you saw it in 1980, its possible it wasn't at Bills place, because he told me he stripped it not so long after its last race (in early 1977), because there was nowhere for it to compete anymore. Its parts were of more value individually than that of the whole sum.
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Hi guys, dual question. What became of this car? What was its performance/results like. It was obviously a bit of an orphan.
It was at least a roller could have been 1978,79 house was on corner of reeves and udys road you could see into the back yard driving along reeves road.
Thanks Racefan, it does sound like it could have been at Bills place then. He told me he stripped it right down, sold the motor and all the mechanicals, which were all F5000 items, and the body and molds ended up with a backyard car wrecker. But it wouldn't have had any wheels on it if you'd seen it at the car wreckers place so must have been at Bills.
Not really sure Steve, it was Dads pics of it, I believe were taken at Pukekohe January 73, nearly 8 months before I was born. The only other pics I have seen of it were the ones that have posted on this site.
Yeah it is the Fiatbut aprt that and knowing McIntyre as the driver, I know nothing about it. Looked magnificent. But I know nothing beyond that unfortunately.
Wasn't there plans at one stage to put a alloy V8 olds or similar engine into it ,I also seem to remember some involvement with PDL around that time ,PK might remember .from memory did it also use McLaren front uprights and wheels
I UNDERSTAND JIM RICHARD DROVE THE LECKIE CAPRI, BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING UP WITH THE INPUT SHAFT AND THE HUB IN THE CLUTCH ON HIS CAR.
Yep, Custaxie, you're right. JR did drive the Leckie Capri, and broke the Puke lap record and I think he even beat Nazer in the Victor. Pretty sure it was a one-off drive.
Hi Dave,
The car I owned I bought from Peter Parnell in the 70's and sold to a chap by the name of Paul Te Puna from the VCCC. Apologies Paul if I've mispelt your name. I think that this was the car that Jacque Van Vels later raced with a Kawasaki motor in the sports car class. Recall selling Jacque a trailer which on the way to his home somehow disconnected itself from the drawbar and wiped out a couple of cars in his street. Nice guy, Jacque.
Peter P. and I have been in touch recently so I'll ask him who owned it before I bought it. He's fairly elderly now and may not remember. Actually! I have no idea why I bought the blasted thing. Probably for the Armstrong shocks, or maybe I was just pissed. I'll dig out a photo and post it when I get a new scanner. The present one crapped out while I was doing a brain scan on my old girlfriend. You know? the one from Paris - cheap at half the price.
So given that and given this entry list Malcolm supplied in the NZ Sports Sedans DAtabase I have questions.
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This is 6 yearrs after the meeting at which my father took the photographs of McIntyres 124, what happened to it during that time, was it just garaged and set aside? and what happened to it after Robert Bartleys ownership?
I have a feeling McIntyre used it as a rally car (but wouldn't swear to it...)
Ok I just spoke to Robert Bartley, who was absolutely fantastic. He bought the car from PDL who had begun to modify it to take a V8, he restored it to its original Fiat configuration, he had an engine built up by a Fiat specialist in Hunterville (Bruce Wilson?). He then had it painted up in BMW M colours, raced it for a while before selling it to Hos Waswo. Interestingly he built the Cortina Mk3 that Bruce Robertson raced, and he believes its in a shed somewhere, and he has just bought the Custaxie.
so any ideas what Mr Waswo did with the Fiat?
Hoss (Cartwright) Waswo had a car accesories shop in New Plymouth in about 81. Hoss ran GM motor racing program in North America. Last saw him at Western Springs about 2 years ago.
Yes but unfortunately or fortunately he is, I believe now in prison due to sex offenses and arson charges.
Shit, I didnt know him that well.???????????
On the subject of this "interesting" gent.
Waswo did a bathurst in the early eighty's in a group C commodore
He then imported a engine-less group C car to nz, which we have never been able to pin down is origins
Now, its not the ex Geoghean car he drove as that is spoken for.
Neither is it the Grice 100MPH car i heard it was rumored to be
Does any body know?
Does anyone know of an old formula vee which I sold to a guy from Taranaki? Distinctive because it was painted like a USA flag. History of the car would be good too.
Last time i talked to Barry Search he has the McElrea Cortina and is going to race it.
Just received a email from "Woody". Thought I'd better add that my sense of humour is not to everyones taste. A leg pull and not meant to offend.
ps. I've already replied to "Woody".
I was just looking for some history of a v8 mk1 escort that I have found in Hawea and brought through a Wigram 1974 programme that my old man gave me and seen the dates on this pic so I will scan the driver list and post it once I work out how to.
Andy Giles.
Andy, do you now own this car? Can you post up photos?
Hey Steve, no I'm not saying that. I have had this car for about 6 monts or more and am finally getting to the early owners. I have got back as far as 1977 but should know more and have photos in the next week or so. I saved it from a guy that had started to build a speedway car out of it!
Good save Andy, could have history ?
yeah from what I have found is that its been a club, rally, lotus t/c, osca I am getting some pictures from Australia of the car in 1977 when one of the owners Ian Wilkins (Ashburton) picked the car up from Dunedin. Apparently in his gold Capri with the trailer on the back and had to back down a very steep street. Ians brother in law who I got hold of thinks it had a v8 in it when Ian got the car and believed it is a factory T/C but we will see...Will let you Know it looks bloody terrible at the moment in matt black with lovely pink decals! I have striped some paint and its every colour, white roof and metalic blue sides,there is red and black and white and that was just the back l/h guard and the front l/h flare.
Andy Giles.
Andy, I spoke with Wayne Fuller (who built the Fuller/Brader Escort) a couple of years ago about his car. He said he'd built it up from a 1300cc road car. Did you buy your car without a motor?
It has a Rover v8 in it at the moment. The speedway guy put this in i believe. Im pretty sure it wouldn't be the Fuller/Brader car but shit you never know till you get all the facts. I am giving one of Ian Wikins pit crew a call today as he is looking though his pics etc for me. I emailed Bob a while ago with some pics of my car but he didn't see any work the he would have done so this eliminates the first Harrington Escort that Bob put a F85 into but I have found an old F85 engine in another local shed with idas on it which im trying to buy.