We stay with the mighty OSCA series again for this week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST – this time from Levels at Timaru. It is the 1975/6 season and Laurie Bruce’s ’67 TransAm Mustang leads Clyde Collins’ V8 Cortina. Our favourite part of this pic? It’s gotta be the cheeky Mustang badge proudly displayed on the grille of […]
Tag: Classic
Tucked up the back of the Paris Motor Show in Hall 8 was the “Cars and Fashion” show. Or something like that – it was rather unhelpfully all in French, so we are a bit unclear on some of the cars and what purpose they served by being there – but they were all gorgeous […]
This week’s BLAST is a mighty one indeed – it comes from the 1976/77 season and shows the big, bad OSCA Camaros of Kevin Haig and Bruce Jenner battling it out on the Levels race track in Timaru. Awesome stuff! Thanks, as always, to Terry Marshal!
We head back to Ruapuna for this week’s BLAST from the mid 70’s where Ian (Munty) Munts thrashes his mighty OSCA Capri. As always, many thanks to Terry Marshall.
We are currently in France on a Peugeot launch (and to attend the Paris Motor Show) and today we were lucky enough to have a guided tour of the Musee de l’Aventure Peugeot (Peugeot museum) in Sochaux. While it was full of utterly fantastic cars (and tools, weapons, coffee grinders, bicycles, bombs, sewing machines, kitchen appliances […]
This week’s Terry Marshall-supplied BLAST FROM THE PAST comes from Ruapuna where John Osbourne leads Rod McElrea and Bob Slade.
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!
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 […]
