New Zealand Historic Saloon Cars Under HRC

[Spgeti]

The TACCOC Spring Meeting is now upon us, this Saturday at Hampton Downs.
HMC/HSC have a fantastic line up of 24 entries for this one day meeting. Special thanks to all those who entered and we have a grid to be pleased with.

The Gulf Camaro, The Hemi Cuda, and the superb remainder of the HMC field, 16 in total.

The HSC field consisted of the most historic Escorts assembled, The Wiliment, The Freighters, The Autotrader, and the Radisch RS1600, and backed up with the McConnell Twin Cam, a car raced since 1974 and finally the favourite ex Kibble Rally Escort in the hands of Hillsy.
These are also complimented by the best T&C car in our group, the fabulous Datsun 240K. In total 8 fabulous cars.

See you there, you will not be disappointed.

[Grant Sprague]

Sounds great , shows how strong this class is , no pressure , no points , no championship , no ego , no drama we can come & go & still good feild of cars , will take my little escort to manfeild I think we have more cars entered there , so see you there guys have fun .

[Steve Holmes]

Couple of update photos of Paul's Escort RS1600:

[Kiwiboss]

Couple of update photos of Paul's Escort RS1600:

WOW, didn't know Paul was actually working on it, that's fantastic..............BOY he would have luv'd been apart of the TACCOC meeting yesterday.

[ERC]

David Thompson - Escort, and, David Thompson - Escort... Oh, and in the background, Dennis McConnell - Escort.

[John McKechnie]

Ray- you missed that in the red nose car is also an Escort- Hillsy.
Full house wins

[Spgeti]

Thanks for the photo Ray. I was there and saw you talking to Rob but I was busy as you know.
Great meeting for us and the best selection of true historic cars out on the grid.
We are truely privileged to have the support of these guys.

Cheers
Bruce

[ERC]

I'll eventually post on my Mix of Pics thread. Still whittling 700 pics down to a more manageable number. Good to see healthy grids in all classes and to know that grids in just about all our classes are growing, even though several drivers have now hung up their helmets, so we may not see their cars out again.

As those who were there will have noticed, there were a lot of broad smiles around! Make that broad grins...

[kiwi285]

Hi Ray, I have sent you a PM.

[kiwi285]

Here are a couple of photos from the TACCOC meeting on Saturday. Most are the great work of Nigel Watts. Four of the 6, yes 6, historic Escorts that race in the HSC class. We need to be thankful to the people who found that restored these great little cars.

[kiwi285]

Here are a couple of photos from the TACCOC meeting on Saturday. Most are the great work of Nigel Watts. Four of the 6, yes 6, historic Escorts that race in the HSC class. We need to be thankful to the people who found that restored these great little cars.

Car # 1 is David Thompson Snr with the ex Roy Harrington car, Car # 71 is David Thompson Jnr with the ex Radisich car, Car #102 is Brent Smith with the Ex Jim Richards car and car # 103 is John Dennehy with the ex Don Halliday car. Magic sights.

[Steve Holmes]

For anyone wanting to get behind the wheel of an HSC car, this fantastic little Triumph Dolomite is for sale: https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car...1441898646.htm

[Steve Holmes]

Neat bit of in-car footage here with David Thompson Jnr in the ex-Frank Radisich Escort RS1600:

[Paul B]

Couple of update photos of Paul's Escort RS1600:

What a fantastic looking machine! a real credit to Paul Mc and his attention to detail.
I cant wait to see it in the flesh

[Steve Holmes]

This beauty is joining the HSC ranks at the MG Classic next month. Rex Bentham's ex-Uhlenburg/Westall/Hunter Jag MkII.

[nigel watts]

[Steve Holmes]

Beautiful pics Nigel! Thats a great looking car.

[Steve Holmes]

This is the list of cars currently entered for the HMC/HSC races at the MG Classic in November. Looks like a few more to come yet:

1. #1 David Thompson Snr, 68 MK1 Escort
2. #3 Kevin Gimblett, 67 Camaro
3. #4 Colin Campbell, 69 Mk1 RS Escort
4. #7 Dave Sturrock, 68 RS/SS Camaro
5. #8 Ian Williamson, 72 RX2 Mazda
6. #12 Roger Williams, 69 Camaro
7. #21 Sean McCaughan, 71 XY Falcon
8. #25 Rex Bentham, 60 Mk2 Jag
9. #23 Dale Mathers, 69 Mustang
10. #28 Murray Brown, 70 Z28 Camaro
11. #32 Tony Roberts, 65 Mustang FB
12. #42 Andrew Sinclair, 70 Hemi Cuda
13. #44 Andrew Stevenson, 67 Mustang
14. #46 Howard Wood, 73 2002 BMW
15. #47 Pete Stevenson, 66 Mustang FB
16. #50 Glenn Allingham, 70 Camaro
17. #57 Richie Malam, 67 Mustang Coupe
18. #63 Grant Sprague, 71 Mk1 Escort
19. #68 Brett Pearce, 68 Bathurst Monaro
20. #69 Dennis McConnell, 69 Mk1 Escort
21. #94 Greg Goudie, 70 Capri V8
22. #103 John Dennehy, 68 Mk1 Escort
23. #104 Tony Mexted, 70 PDL Mustang
24. #117 John Sampson, 69 Capri V6
25. #175 Todd Gower, 76 MK3 Cortina
26. #187 Pat Excell, 65 Ford Anglia GT
27. #227 Natalie Parlane, 71 Capri V6
28. #233 Tom Lancaster, 70 Capri V8
29. #289 Nigel MacDonald, 67 Mustang FB
30. #483 Neville(Hillsy) Hills, 75 MK2 Escort

[Spgeti]

We are a week away from the MG Classic at Manfeild. We have a fantastic grid of 33 entries which has variety from an Anglia 1500GT and Mk2 Jaguar to the rapid Freighters Escort, BMW 2002tii, Mazda RX2 and Radisch BDG Escort just to name a few.
Mix this up with the HMC group and this is one of the best period grids you will ever see.
All the hard work has been done in preparation for this great meeting put on by the good people from the MG Club, Wellington.

Looking forward to it, please call in and say hello to Dale and myself and yes buy one of our fantastic calendars at the same time.

Cheers
Bruce

[Paul B]

The MG Classic meeting 10, 11, 12 November 2017