This week’s BLAST comes from BayPark during the 1979/80 season of the 2.0-litre SHELLSPORT series. Grant Aitkin leads from Bryce Platt and Roy Harrington. Thanks to Terry Marshall!
Category: Classic
Many mighty Ford Capris have thundered around New Zealand race tracks – this week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST is of Bill Leckie’s Capri Chevrolet pounding Ruapuna in the 75/76 season. As always, thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic.
We head to Levin for this week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST where the Titan Formula Ford’s of Dave McMillan and Graham Baker continue their season long battle during the 1972/73 season. Thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic!
Pete Sparrow is clearly a gifted, but rather demented man. His company – Sparrow Automotive – specialises in jamming BMW bike engines into Citroen 2CVs so that they go rather faster than good sense would probably dictate. Sparrow says that any BMW flat twin R-series engine will fit into a 2CV with no body modifications needed, so […]
This week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST comes from the BNSW 1000cc Mini days. 1972 at Baypark and Barrie Philips passes the crashed car of champion Rod Collingwood. Thanks again to Terry Marshall for the fantastic pic!
Timaru in 1975 is the location for this week’s BLAST – Brett Riley in the Begg JM1, the car built mostly by Jim Murdoch to George Begg’s design. Thanks to Terry Marshall!
Silverstone Auctions is set to put “one of Europe’s finest collections of road going classic cars to come to market” on the block at The Salon Privé Sale on September 4th in London. Henry Pearman, the founder and CEO of Eagle (apparently “the world’s premier” Jaguar E-Type specialist, and looking at their website, we would have […]
When Jaguar announced it was going to build the final six lightweight E-Types it started building in the 1960s and then, well, forgot to finish the run, we here at OVERSTEER were interested, but not that excited. That was until we saw the finished product. Then we realised it wasn’t a product, it was a […]
This week’s BLAST comes from Pukekohe in 1981 where David Oxton in the Ralt RT4 leads the Ralt RT1s of Steve Millen and Dave McMillan. Many thanks to the talented Terry Marshall for this great pic!
While we would like to think that arrests in the 1970s by American cops were all tyre-howling car chases and improbable gun battles where no-one runs out of ammo, that just wasn’t the case. Basically, Hollywood lied to us… This wonderfully retro video shows us exactly how a police officer should stop and arrest a […]
