Anglias

On a quick count there may be more Anglias of assd catagories spread throughout this great site than any other car at present, as time allows and skills improve i will collect pics from the various threads and colllect them here so there may be some repeats sorry, my self interest is Anglias with bigger motors and/or fastbacks. I will start this with pics of Aussie Sport Sedan Under 2ltr Standard Triumph engine Cortina GT gbox Capri struts and brakes,Found on ebay it had sat outside for 30yrs with side window down ,left in a terrible state, however 90% all there ,lucky to find Eric Jordan, the guy that built this car up from a freebody {ex cop car} motor came out of a clubman,he seam welded and built up at nights to go racing in the everyman sport sedans that was huge in auz in the day Eric has been involved from the begining ,with his photos and general memory ,sharp as a tack for a bloke with one lung and a suitcase full of kemo meds put me straight on every detail down to the width of the pin stripe,{made me do it a second time]Friday arvos and Saturdays doing something every week got the job done Haveing most of the bits enabled me to keep this projects budget to a level that my wife could understand,Acouple of mates like Bry3500 and Dave the engine man helped when the energy was low and wouldnt have finished with out Brys push at the end,The Car has its original log book and the guys from cams sport sedans have been good

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It was great fun working on that car - And now lets go and find Doyle's Breadvan!!!......

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willstart to collect the other threads thanks

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sorry GD66 had to get out of my system ,dont like Anglias?

Just a wind-up ! Don't mind them at all buddy, in fact I recall Jim racing 105 at BayPark, and when it failed, firing up the Anglia van behind which he'd towed 105 down from Auckland, and racing that ! Used to love pics from Ye Olden Days of Doyle's green monster getting stuck into the Allcomers guys, and knew a bloke in Tauranga with a street Angular fitted with a Lotus twin-cam, which led to many late-night high speed frolics ! Never could figure out why more blokes didn't do likewise with their race cars, but I suppose by then, the Escort had appeared, and the jig was up...

Keep 'em coming, son !

nice shot of Jum and his van on the jum thread

this maybe you were there

My old girl along time back over top of Pukekohe. They were neat little cars and handled pretty good,they did not mind lifting a wheel or two, very forgiving. Got some more photos somewhere

Nice Rod what donk ?

Never got to Puke or Levin in those days (too young !) but that's the old girl, nobody told Jim that sideways wasn't the quickest way to get a lap done, but he made thousands of loyal fans who followed him all the way to the top. He had one half-arsed attempt in a F5000 at Calder and stuck to saloon cars after that. Bloody hell, what might have been....very few are gifted with car control like Jim.

I mean, Jum....

Couple more from club curcuit Pukekohe. This is going back.

It had a 2ltr (basically a group 1) mounted back with the front of engine in line with cross member, seat was back a we bit as well.

At one of the original wings and wheels at Whenuapai, that was good fun, big wide runways and you could ease her up and hold it as you moved out across the wide spaces.
Mate as of all our old cars "I wish i still had it", I handed it down to my brother when I got the escort and he then did a deal with a guy and then it just dissapeared.

Another fun day at Bay park

Forget keeping the car - you should have kept the plastic handle for the "Big Serve" can of Double Brown. (Did we really used to drink that stuff?)

Great thread and will be good to see all Anglia photos together in one spot. Great to see the car completed and ready to roll - it looks smart. Good on you and we hope you have some great fun with it.

Thanks and how goods the mo still got it Ron I love the wing mirror.did this car have capri struts and brakes?

So is that a Kiwi sport sedan or an OSCA

That was back in 84 I think. Mo has changed colour and the young lass on the right with sunglass's still makes diner most nights. I ran in Sports Sedan Association which was basically the Noth Island version of OSCA. Ran with OSCA guy's as well. Won 2Ltr Championship in it.
Yea Capri front gear, rear was turreted she handled fairly good, loved the wet, get in and give those big boys a bit back in wet (the big bullies) I ran Pacific front tyres front and rear which I got off Steve Millen as I also helped with his car so that was handy and they were nice and sticky.
Still got handles somewhere Shano, and yea it makes you wonder ah, I think we drank all kinds back then.
Remembered my brother did a deal with Brian Friend with the car, he was going to breadvan it, and the last i heard of it. It was a neat car most probably still my favourite in memory.

I have spoken to Rob Bartly ,he had tha Triang, what was the story that they had to convert it from a breadvan to a normal car to race within the regs ,did they change to stockbody, what an expense!

Rod in what form did the DB sponsership come I notice the Team DB t shirt

You mean to tell me that mo-stache wasn't real Rod? But this was the '80s, the porn-star look was very popular. Angria, I'd hazard a guess that Rod was a very good customer of D.B, but the partnership was more lucrative for them!

Steve, you are right again. Actually at that time DB Windsor Park on north shore was the first to have satelite TV (they had a huge big dish) and we used to watch all the Aussie races there on Sundays. Also Live Bathurst when no one else could get it. I ran a doo one Bathurst day and we had couple hundred turn up. The owner gave us pretty good support with a couple of trays each meeting and petrol etc. The lass on the front of trailer in previous photo actually worked in their office, and after awhile she convinced me to get married at the Windsor as well, and the owner was master of ceremonies, his daughters brides maids and wife was in charge of it all, so spent a bit of time there over the years.
Some may remember in late 80s a t-shirt appeared around our pit for a while with on the front Moustache Rides and on the back a big 50 cents sign. That caused a bit of humour. Oh well you could get away with that fun in those days. No offence intended.
Any way back to Anglias

Nigel posted this on other thread, but this was at Bay Park not long after i got the car.

Found this photo and it was a few years later with new front thanks to earth mover tyre at the beggining of back straight after sweeper at Bay Park. Clipped kerb pretty hard going into sweeper after bridge and pinged a tie rod as we left sweeper, just clicked 4th gear when it just turned left, so it was a decent nudge. All my fault. We didn't sit on front of trailer that afternoon and use the handle.

First lap up and over hill at Pukekohe Clubmans meeting, did alright this day and sat on trailer with handle after.

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November 1966,This was the Anglia I raced in the 66/67 Season .We travelled back over night from racing at Levin the day before to compete at this Hillclimb