Thats him Malcolm. Sadly it ended up on roof at Bay Roof. Kevin was quick peddler and bloody nice rooster with it.
Photo i found in programme for NZGP at Puke.
Thats him Malcolm. Sadly it ended up on roof at Bay Roof. Kevin was quick peddler and bloody nice rooster with it.
Photo i found in programme for NZGP at Puke.
Kevin McNamara also drove the Paul Fahey owned Union Travel Chev Camaro in the GTX series in the late 70s.
Mark Rutherford Mark 2 Escort:
McPhail Motor Parts OSCA Wigram 1980, behind a couple of rally cars from Blenheim playing with the race cars, Robert Smith RX3 and Brent Loader Datsun 1200 (1800)
I had a b&w photo published in MotorAction (the old newsprint mag) of the Rutherford Mk2 Escort spinning at the Ruapuna hairpin after contact with (iirc) the Harrington Mk1 Escort. From memory there were Datsuns 3-wide right behind them (iirc Aitken and Cook). Would have been a Shellsport race in the early '80s?Originally Posted by Gus
Mark Rutherford Mark 2 Escort:
McPhail Motor Parts OSCA Wigram 1980, behind a couple of rally cars from Blenheim playing with the race cars, Robert Smith RX3 and Brent Loader Datsun 1200 (1800)
Unfortunately the negative and my prints have got damaged over time, would be keen to know if anybody has a copy of that paper.
Last edited by Bryan; 07-29-2014 at 12:54 AM.
Bryan- will look through my copies .
Thanks, John. They also published a photo of Dave Waldron (iirc) fighting an under-bonnet fire in his OSCA turbo Mk1 Escort at Levels.
Just checked-All my motoractions, and other publications are from 70s- sorry
Last edited by John McKechnie; 07-29-2014 at 03:03 AM.
I suspect that would be from 1980 or 81. The Escort was built up by Rod Collingwood who lost his sponsor and could not develop it, so he sold it to Mark Rutherford. This car then became the donor shell for Bob Homewoods Escort Sports Sedan.
Think you will find the Rutherford Mk2 was built at Reg Cooks for Warren Steel.
Ok I am confused. I have got a reference from 1980 of the Warren Steel one going to Rutherford, but then I have another reference, and picture of Mike Moore driving the ex Warren Steel Mk 2 before it went back to him. Then another reference in 82 to the Collingwood Mk2 which he drove at the end of 80/81 Collingwood then built up the Trueno, and then that Escort being purchased by Mark and Ron Rutherford.
This the one?
FWIW I remember racing against Mark Rutherford in the brown MK2 Escort in an OSCA round at Teretonga, it would have been 1979/1980, same meeting Ian Munts Capri dropped its oil at the entry to the loop.
My memory says that the brown Rutherford car was LHD.
That's right Marty, the donor car was the LHD AWA Clarion Mk1, used the rack & pedal box out of it,
So this is the LHD one built by CMR for Warren Steel then, here Mark Rutherford, then to Mike Moore, back to Warren Steel before going to Bob Homewood.
And this RHD is the ex Collingwood car driven here by Mark Rutherford.
I only know the brown one was sold to Mark, don't know what happened after that as I went overseas.
Hi Bryan, not the picture you're after but three scanned images from the Motorsport Annual '80 of Bryce Platt v. Mark Rutherford; you can see the Datsuns and John Armstrong's Escort in the background. Great looking car and really quick too.... Is this the one that became Bob Homewood's Sports Sedan?
Thanks for those photos, Richard. :-)
Memory faulty after 30 odd years - had forgotten it was Platt in the Mk1, not Harrington.
I was one of the chaps sitting on the bank on the outside of the hairpin, and caught the incident from the other side.
Last edited by Bryan; 08-02-2014 at 10:49 PM.
This one just popped up on facebook, having been in storage for 20-plus years. Ex-Ron McPhail twin-cam.
Nick Donaldson photos.
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