This is Kevin Gimbletts Camaro, now fitted with 15" wheels and Hoosier cross-plies for HMC:
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This is Kevin Gimbletts Camaro, now fitted with 15" wheels and Hoosier cross-plies for HMC:
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Some photos of Brett Pearce's Monaro from the Ice Breaker meeting
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Sorry the quality isn't the best - the miserable conditions would allow my camera to focus properly.
Great work Mike, thanks for posting these. Gee those V8 boys are getting the bums-rush from the small capacity pilots!
It is a lot easier to get up close and personal as Dale and I did on a number of ocassions when you can trust the other bloke. Good clean racing all weekend with excellent driving standards from where I was sitting.
Thats what its all about Howard, nobody is racing for sheep stations, a successful weekend in historic racing is taking the car home looking as it did when it arrived, and having a grin from ear to ear.
Whose is this car Steve?
Love the blue Kawasaki 750 Widowmaker petrol tank in the background.Now thats really interesting
I'd say the owner/builder of this Falcon needs to get his A into G and not worry about other projects laying around in the back ground!!LOL(just and observation) :)
Dale M
Yeah, also giving up work, turning away visitors, not answering phones, not walking the dogs, not being on rts, not taking photos of cars and sending them on.................
Grady Thomson observed that at 27 and not married-its the only way to find time to do a race car.
Your return of the shuttlecock , Dale.............
Hey, maybe he has stopped working on it and done a Lowndes and Van Giz and gone to another manufacturer, word on the street is he was seen looking at a Monaro........
Well, he may have "but" he needs to know that he has just under 4 months until Denny Hulme, hmmmm
Dale M
Understand once the painter has finished, the pieces bolt on.Owner cant do any work on car till the car is painted and dry.He is aware of the time, arent we all.He has even undertaken to work through from 24 Dec everyday on this if necessary.Foggy has recommended a stiff regime.
FOGGY, what would he know? he only does Mini's so you better watch out, may end up with a mini engine in Falcon!!LOL
Dale M
yeah, we are using a 1560 stroker motor with BMW 4 valve head as the wiper motor
And so is anyone building a replica of the 1970 Chaparral Camaro's as raced in the Trans-Am? Check out this amazing 1:43 scale offering from SPR Models over in the Sponsors News Forum, just for some added motivation: http://www.theroaringseason.com/foru...ors-News-Forum
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That is a really neat model. At that scale they tend to lose some detail but that looks spot on.
This is Grant Aitken's beautiful 1970 Boss Mustang. Originally built by Brett Walker, Grant recently bought it, and it'll be ready to hit the track soon. Great to see Grant getting involved with HMC. He has a wealth of experience, and will be a welcome addition to the group.
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What a fantastic looking car - it will be great to see it on track. Hopefully Grant can make it to the Hulme Festival. HMC is the right class for that car - you certainly wouldn't want some driver with eye mist blurring his vision slamming into it.
You got that right Mike. Whats more, its a genuine Boss 302.
I agree Mike, it`s a nice looking car. The one thing that I have noticed with HMC and how it`s shaping up, is the both the level of commitment - whether financially or authenticity - and the like mindedness of the guys that will be competing and I reckon when the punters see 20 plus of these cars coming up the hill for the first time at Hampton Downs in January, it`ll make people realise what Steve, Tony and Dale have worked so hard to make happen and I for one am looking forward to being part of it.
I fully agree Steve - there is some real commitment here and a genuine interest in running period looking cars with no major enhancements to make them go faster. Roll on January. How is your Camaro progressing - is it in country yet ??
Mike John keeps telling me that his period cars won't foot it with the Escorts etc because of the improvements made to them over the years. That doesn't worry me as I want see the cars in action not whether they can beats the pants off the opposition. I believe that this is what the punters want as well. Yes 20 or so big, noisy period V8's coming up over the start finish line will certainly make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. These will beat V8 Supercars hands down in my book. Just look at the attendance figures at Eastern Creek for the recent Australian Muscle Car Masters and V8 Supercar events. I think that says it all.
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Mike my Camaro gets here just prior to Labour Weekend. I think Steve is doing an article on it for next months NZ Classic Car magazine.
This is Steve Elliott's '68 Camaro, due to arrive in NZ in a couple of weeks. Bloody nice car! The pics don't do it justice. I'm sure Steve will snap plenty more once he gets it home:
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Just a shame that we have to run non period mufflers, imagine the start at HD then.
Yeah, I'm with you on this one Dale. The first unwritten rule of HMC should be " No mufflers required "
No mufflers allowed
So what`s the deal now: Grey hairs and 4 gears, grey pipes and who cares!
We all wish, no one actually says we have to have mufflers, we just have to be under the decible limit, which you can not do without mufflers. the Blue car was awesome with the first exhast system I tried but have had to put some more muffling in to comply? What a pity it was unreal.
Well that attitude unfortunately should stop motor in NZ racing dead in it's tracks.
Guys it is now year 2012 catch up with some things that whilst we enjoyed it years ago it is no longer acceptable from the days when we started it out. My first lesson of this was back around 1978 or 79 when my boys cried their eyes out from the noise of Ozzo's car when he started the engine on the dummy grid. It was just too much for them whilst for me who was half deaf from race engines I could not understand the problem.
Man, I really started something here with the return to no mufflers-are the prison inmates complaining?I am with Bruce-no mufflers allowed, how can you have a period racer when you can here yourself think.I remember Les Parkinson saying he used to listen to Neil Diamonds -Hot August night when racing his V12 Jag.-thats what happens when you have mufflers.Please, save us from Neil Diamond-NO MUFFLERS. Lets have a Rod Coppins Reunion race- out of respect, all V8 exhaust pipes must run up through the bonnet
This class has been created to bring back a bit of the fun that we all enjoyed so much from our past and if that includes making a little bit more noise then lets go for it. I for one, have just about had enough of all the “P.C.” bullshit that we are having shoved down our throats by self serving bureaucrats. If all we get out of our governing body with their rip off priced licenses , exemption cards etc , is unwarranted litigation ( NZV8 / Supertourers ) and Noise Police then maybe it’s time we all followed the example of our straight line driving brothers down the road and tell MSNZ to stick there fees and noise police where the sun don’t shine.
How is it that under MSNZ we have to meet a restrictive decibel limit whilst a kilometer down the road they run cars with 1000’s of horsepower with not a muffler in sight ? At Taupo , both codes even run on the same track , us with restricted decibel levels and them with none !
Last year at the HD Festival there were no noise limits, mainly due to the problems this would create with the F5000s, and next year also with the Can Am cars. Check the supplementry regs to see if a noise limit will be imposed, but I doubt it
This is a great response guys, lets build on this and really make HD next year absolutely memorable.Bruce-your Firebird never ran mufflers back then ? I know Red , John , Grady ,George, Rod, Jim etc never did. Lets push the envelope to see what we can achieve to make our Historics more nostalgic historics. More imput, more drive, more knowledge is needed here.We comply with safety which is most important.
Thanks Parnelli , excellent attitude you have, and shared by so many of us out here.Enough positive feedback from all viewers here and things could work out .
Grelley- great point worth following by our leaders.
Whats your take here Dale?
Always remember what it was that got us hooked on car racing in the first place-it was LOUD, racing is loud,we dont want it sanitised
In the US different historic groups have what is referred to as `open exhaust meetings' which are usually limited to `Can Am, F5000, Trans Am, etc' and only a few are held annually. It is controlled by local bylaws and only run at some tracks. The guy I bought my Camaro off reckons they are hugely popular because the punters get to see `real cars racing how they used to race'. HMC is not about living in a timewarp, it`s about enjoying the history and participation in the `real' era of Muscle Cars. Too many classes, both past and present, in NZ motorsport have been controlled by single minded wheelbarrow pushers. I would compare HMC using a comparison to rowing.... we aren`t in the single skulls rowing our own boat, we are in the `eights' where we are all in it together!