We head to Levin in 1971 for this week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST. David Oxton’s F5000 Lotus 70 Boss Ford leads Chris Amon’s March 701 Cosworth DFV. Both cars were bought to NZ by the Granatelli STP concern. Thanks to Terry Marshall for the great pic!
Category: Classic
St. John “Jock” Horsfall was a keen racer before the war. He also help change the course of WWII and ensure the Allies of a very important victory. He was also legally blind and just might have been the inspiration for James Bond… The XCAR crew take a look at Jock’s remarkable life and racing […]
We head over to the world of single seaters with HUGE wings for this week’s BLAST – namely the legendary Jochen Rindt in a Lotus 49T at the NZIGP in Pukekohe in 1969. Many thanks to Terry Marshall!
The lads at XCAR have outdone themselves this time by not only getting their hands on a thoroughly gorgeous, original DeLorean DMC-12, but also by producing an utterly fantastic video with it that touches on the history of Johhny Z’s company, Colin Chapman’s involvement and the dodgy business practices that brought it all crashing down. Plus that whole drug […]
We stay with the mighty OSCA series again for this week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST – this time from Levels at Timaru. It is the 1975/6 season and Laurie Bruce’s ’67 TransAm Mustang leads Clyde Collins’ V8 Cortina. Our favourite part of this pic? It’s gotta be the cheeky Mustang badge proudly displayed on the grille of […]
Tucked up the back of the Paris Motor Show in Hall 8 was the “Cars and Fashion” show. Or something like that – it was rather unhelpfully all in French, so we are a bit unclear on some of the cars and what purpose they served by being there – but they were all gorgeous […]
This week’s BLAST is a mighty one indeed – it comes from the 1976/77 season and shows the big, bad OSCA Camaros of Kevin Haig and Bruce Jenner battling it out on the Levels race track in Timaru. Awesome stuff! Thanks, as always, to Terry Marshal!
We head back to Ruapuna for this week’s BLAST from the mid 70’s where Ian (Munty) Munts thrashes his mighty OSCA Capri. As always, many thanks to Terry Marshall.
We are currently in France on a Peugeot launch (and to attend the Paris Motor Show) and today we were lucky enough to have a guided tour of the Musee de l’Aventure Peugeot (Peugeot museum) in Sochaux. While it was full of utterly fantastic cars (and tools, weapons, coffee grinders, bicycles, bombs, sewing machines, kitchen appliances […]
This week’s Terry Marshall-supplied BLAST FROM THE PAST comes from Ruapuna where John Osbourne leads Rod McElrea and Bob Slade.
