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 […]
Tag: Classic
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 […]
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 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.
In this video from our favourite movie car-themed YouTube channels – theAFICIONAUTO – comes this interview with David Hasselhoff behind the wheel of a replica of K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider. The Hoff shows that he has lost none of his driving skills – or ego – in this entertaining interview.
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 […]
This week we bring you a sobering BLAST FROM THE PAST that reminds us all of the inherent dangers of motorsport. The place was Manfeild in October of 1976. Red Dawson was in his Chevrolet Monza battling with Frank Gardner in the Chevrolet Corvair when he had his horrific accident. Dawson was still in the car when […]
This week we head back to 1965 for the Matamata road race, off the start/finish straight where Rod Coppins in the legendary Zephyr Corvette leads from Bryan Innes in the 1275/93 Morris Cooper S. Thanks, as always, to Terry Marshall for the pic.
Our second Defender video of the day comes from Land Rover New Zealand who recently surprised four friends who reluctantly decided the time had come to part with their beloved Series 1 after many years of use. From the Land Rover website: This year Land Rover is showing what Valentine’s Day can really mean, turning […]
Our BLAST FROM THE PAST this week comes to us from Wigram in 1974 and features Teddy Pilette in the VDS Team Chevron B24 heading into the loop on his way to second place in the Lady Wigram Trophy race. As always, thanks to Terry Marshall for the brilliant pic!
