We head back to Pukekohe in 1973 for this week’s BLAST, where Jim Richards – in the winning Charger he drove with Rod Coppins – exits the hairpin during the Benson and Hedges 500. Thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic.
Category: Motorsport
For our BLAST FROM THE PAST this week Kieran Roberts takes us to Levin in 1967 with the legendary Robbie Francevic behind the wheel of the equally legendary Custaxie. From Kieran’s website: “The Custaxie name came from an amalgamation of a 1955 Ford Customline fitted with a 7-litre Ford Galaxie engine, Francevic’s team making full use of New […]
While, like most photographers, he struggles with the basics of etiquette, polite interaction and inappropriate touching, Terry Marshall does take a damn fine photograph. He proves that once more with this spectacular Photo Gallery from the revived Race to the Sky event at Cardrona in Queenstown! You can see the final results here: Repco RTTS final overall results […]
This weeks BLAST is another piece of Kieran Roberts’ great art – Jackie’s Green Hell. Let’s hear from the artist himself about this piece, this is from his website: Jackie Stewart on his way to victory in the Tyrrell 006 in 1973 at one of his least favourite tracks, the Nurburgring, which he nicknamed ‘the green […]
Mario Torrado is an amazing guitarist. Although, having said that, we have no idea if he can actually play music on one. But he doesn’t need to, because Mario can play F1 car sounds and he does it brilliantly! The video above shows Mario reproducing Rubens Barrichello’s pole lap record of Monza in a V10 […]
This week’s BLAST comes to us from Wigram in 1976, when Allan Moffat bought over his Chev Monza to take on the kiwi big guns of Richards. Leonard, Dawson and Nazer. Many thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic!
This video is proof that it is possible to go from not even knowing something exists to loving it and everything about it in around 4 second. This is “Tigger” setting a new track record for a “Blown Mud Dragster” at Hellings Mud Park in the USA. We couldn’t find the actual time set anywhere, […]
This week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST comes from 1970 and is another of local artist Kieran Robert’s brilliant works – the mighty Gulf-liveried Porsche 917K. We will be featuring more of Kieran’s work over the coming weeks, but you can head to his website www.kieranrobertsart.com to see more, or buy some of his brilliant work.
Okay, they may well be slow, but the SsangYong ute series does provide some hilariously brilliant action shots for photographers like our own Terry Marshall! The high centre of gravity and a huge field makes them look spectacular – so here is a gallery of Terry’s pics from the latest round. Enjoy!
A bit of a different BLAST FROM THE PAST this week – Kieran Roberts is a talented young bloke from Invercargill who specialises in classic motorsport art and we LOVE his work, so will be featuring it our regular BLAST FROM THE PAST, alongside Terry Marshall’s fantastic photography. This week’s BLAST comes from Baypark in […]
