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This is a very interesting photo from the point of view where it was taken. This is right outside the hanger where the hairpin was. You turned left, over the drains and back out onto the airfield about 10 metres past where this photo was taken. Normally you would be hard on the brakes here, trying not to slide down the off camber and keep it hard up against the hanger. I know that at one stage the hairpin used to be at the other end of #6 hanger (or where this photo was taken) , and they then had to return back up the other side of the drains to get out onto the airfield. I am not sure when that was. Even earlier there was just a S bend from outside the previous hanger and then straight out onto the airfield. I was based at Wigram from 1974 to 1992, and during this time they always had the short hairpin.
Normally photos taken near the hangers at Wigram are of cars coming around the Control Tower, where the off camber and bumps were really bad, so they wheels in the air and looked spectacular!!!
Pete B
That is a huge milestone John, and yes I will be at HD next year. Cheers, Bruce
John that was an interesting snippet, keep up the good work its only time ????? and sum doe ray me [$$] Do you notice how time keeps slipping away......lol. I use to have a few trinkets but realised when my girls came along it was time to be a Dad , good by race cars & collectables thats the price for starting a family later in life but wouldnt swap my family for quids or for motor racing , BUT hey they are all growing up fast ???
Yep Grant, thats why mine been parked, just when you think 'they grown now i might go play' along comes the grand child (hes a little ripper too) but he will grow into it, so better get on with putting bits together.
PS John, you have done some work fella, car looking great, and all this in between organizing others and Historic Sports Sedans, good on you.
Yeah, well spotted! Check out some of the cars in the background: I can see an earlier HK/HT Monaro, and HQ Monaro, and a 67/68 Impala hardtop. Makes you wonder where all these cars went.
This thread is nearing 40,000 page views John. Lots of interest in this car. I reckon you'll have quite a crowd assemble for its first track appearance in nearly 40 years.
John give Tony Rutherford a yell think he has one.
John, if you don't get anywhere with Tony drop me a line,
Wow, thats looking great John! Awesome effort.
That car definitely ended up with the right owner John, you saved it from almost certain extinction, so stand up and take a bow for bringing one back from the dead. 40,000 hits shows what great interest there is in the car. Its been an epic journey to watch.
Hear Hear John, well done and I agree with Steve...you saved an important part of our motorsport history.....an example you have set for others to follow.....Cheers, Bruce
Well done John getting this far.......I bet you are excited first big hurdle. over . you are not a gunna .......I wud love to recreate our fast back Anglia ...... got the contacts just need the time ..... I gunna gunna gunna do it one day lol.... congrats John pss John dont forget to lower rear of that bonnet you know that story ??? lol :mad:
MMmmmm John thats a good idea ....lol:confused:
In regard bonnets I guess you have spotted the photos from the UK in the "Just a mix.." thread?
The old story of Holden bonnet hinges flogging out where the rivets go through and the spring pushes it up, cheap fix is to slot mounting holes a wee bit on the inner guard mount points so it can sit down more, or of course drill out rivets and build up with weld re-drill and re-rivet, bit of a job but probably worth the effort. Great Job John, so love seeing these old girls being Re Born!
Myth is correct, wind tunnel tests over the years have well and truly put that one to bed, but there are a lot of non believers out there who will swear on their grandmothers grave that it works and that they have to do that to get the engine temp down, and I have found over the years, that most of those don't understand why the damm thing gets hot in the first place!
Roger
I don't want to buy into myth or not. Nathans comment which I quoted was a discussion starter about hinges. If anyone wants to quote windtunnels etc, that is fine, however unless the actual vehicle being brought into the topic has been tested the theory is invalid. And yes I have actually spent time with windtunnels. Incredibly small differences can negate previous ideas. Angle of rake of the car itself, windscreens, nose shapes all (and not exclusively) can throw all prior ideas out the window. Generalisations do not apply.
Happy to be wrong John. Wasn't Grant referring to having to close the gap in years gone by? Some rule that MANZ came up with about fluids escaping on to screens?
Don't think, know it works, did it years back. Sorry Rog.
Did it with Anglia (2Ltr) years ago and added a little lip on front of rear gap to assist. it certainly helped with flow of air through engine bay.
PS me and Mr Sprague discussed this on another thread last year with photos.
off to start prep for paint work John.....the underside ??, Cheers Bruce
Yeeha John
Just a question John, are you allowed to race with that beautiful wood rim wheel ?. From memory they were the same as what I had in my 68 Vette.
My Alfa 105 came with a Personel wood rim wheel and I had to replace it.....sold it to a guy restoring his 105 and regret it ever since.
Its the lip that most likely,did the trick as just raising it by it self often causes a vacuum, and also m,as the old fella said rake, screen angle would make a difference, but rule of thumb it doesn't work, unless youy doing other work in conjunction with it.
You right about the lip Rog. We did a little bit of playing around back then to try and sort out air etc. and when we put the little alloy lip across front of vent at same angle as windscreen and slightly enlargened the gap it made a difference, cheers
Found this amongst some scans of slides that my Brother sent me to try to clean up for him.
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps32e1777c.jpg
Bonnet might be flush John boy, but there is something poking through it that may be attached to the engine to help it breath and swallow. Remember this and it was bronze and it was fast and looked good.
No John, your Monaro is an original historic schedule K car with NZ race history so it can be how it ran in the day under the FIA GR 2 or 5 regs and still be eligible for HMC.
Its like Nigel MacDonald's Dawson 67 Mustang, they never came with front and rear spoilers on that model mustang(not until 69) but because his raced in NZ with this equipment period and is a real schedule K car he is allowed this, but you can't build one day and use these spoilers.
Dale M
Hi John.
Did you see on Trade Me today a HG 350 Bathurst Monaro sold for $150,300.
Good to see there is a solid following for these muscle Cars
That's amazing same owner for 40 years. Still paying off the Monaro, still working some weekends. I am having a hard time trying to find a set of Hustler wheels , Seems like everybody is after them.
I was lucky buying mine when the market was very low, about 3 years then it will be paid off. Great if you can find some hustler wheels. They would have to be 7 inch wide to fit inside the rear guards. Unless I take off the tramp rods then I could go wider,
There was an Angus Cameron who used to hill climb a grey valiant in the mid 60s and boy did he throw that thing around. I have some great photos of him in that car at Houghton Bay and Palmer Head: I do not recall the Monaro
He raced the Monaro at Baypark in the 1971 Glenvale 100. Retired lap 34 with brake problems.
MOTORMAN, August, 1971