This week’s BLAST comes to us from a slightly wet Ruapuna – the legendary Robbie Francevic manhandling the Schick ShellSport Datsun Coupe in less than ideal conditions during the 75/76 season. Thanks to Terry Marshall as always for the mighty pic!
Category: Classic
Time for a mid-week BLAST! This week’s Terry Marshall image comes from Ruapuna in 1976 and is of Grant Walker in the mighty Cologne Capri leading Red Dawson in his Chev Monza.
Got a spare 20 minutes this weekend? No? Well, find an excuse to not do something for 20 minutes and watch this brilliant video /DRIVE have done looking back at some of the great quattro cars Audi have made. And, yes, our video road test of the RS6 Avant is STILL coming…
This week’s BLAST is Kiwi touring car legend Jim Richards at Levin in 1970, three-wheeling in the Carney Racing Ford Escort.
We here at Oversteer love the Aficionauto’s series of beautifully filmed videos on classic movie and television cars – and now there is a new one! This time it is the rather awesome Chrysler Imperial known as Black Beauty from the rather less awesome 2011 “comedy” The Green Hornet. The Imperial is actually one of […]
We head back to the mighty NZ Saloons for this week’s Blast – Jack Nazer in the Victor/Chevrolet known as Miss Victorious. In this Terry Marshall shot Nazer leads Grant Walker in the Cologne Capri at Levels Raceway in Timaru. There is a thoroughly excellent article on Nazer and Miss Victorious on The Roaring Season […]
It’s over a year old, but this video from the guys at Roadkill where they buy an elderly Jaguar XJ for $1,000, throw a blower on it in a parking lot then drive it across California to go drag racing (using car washes to cool the engine along the way!) is brilliant! It’s painfully slow, […]
Back for the New Year, this week’s Blast is a very special one! There is even a very cool story behind it. The pic itself is sensational and shows a very serious-looking, and at that stage unknown, young man from Finland who was in New Zealand to compete in the Formula Pacific championship. “It was […]
The various versions of Lotus in F1 have given it a go, but very clever designer Escape Artist decided to see what other classic liveries would look like on modern F1 cars. Pretty damn good, we think. Check out the gallery above and let us know your thoughts! Image credit: Escape Artist Design
This is the car we need. That is all. Watch this video of an episode of the brilliant “Jay Leno’s Garage” and you will realise you need it too. Even the bloke who built it says it is “horribly expensive”, but who cares? We need one…
