Jack Nazer, Victor Chevrolet (Miss Victorious) leads Grant Walker, Ford Cologne Capri. Levels, Timaru 1976. IMAGE/terry marshall Classic Motorsport

Blast from the Past: Miss Victorious

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 […]

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Classic Random Stuff!

Release the Draguar!

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, […]

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New Cars

Audi RS6 teaser

Well, it has taken WAY longer than we originally thought it would – and is turning into something of an epic – but our video Road Test of the Audi RS6 is taking shape! Here is the intro, just to get you interested…

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Keke Rosberg. Chevron B39. Wigram 1978. IMAGE/terry marshall Classic Motorsport

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Formula Pacific

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 […]

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Classic Motorsport

Classic F1 liveries on modern cars

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

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Classic Random Stuff!

So much want…

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…

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