That's a good car for Puke' Crewing for that would have kept you busy? Lot's of good racing in the early 90's there. Have you heard about the new Hampton Downs raceway being constructed ATM?
yea won 1st around,second round broke a upright in practice.,replaced it was leading to the last lap,mile out in front when she stopped,can't remember why.Just remember Bob throwing his race helmet at her.Was geared for about 175 mph down the back straight.Sold it to Gavin Bain,now raced by Abbott.
Got a photo of Gavin Bain with Bob's Lola at Wigram must have been the first outing in NZ after the sale. David Oxton drove the wheels off it that day - the noise with the flat plane crank was [expletives deleted] Glad that I caught up with Bob few years ago such a nice guy.
Nope, where is that James? Gees, you guys are doing really well over there considering there's only 4 million people. Taupo is now a great new circuit and now theres another one on the cards.
should be an amazing centre, already booked out for three years, including weekdays! http://www.hamptondowns.com/
Thanks brother! I love my car Not just on the cards, its nearly finished. It is just south of the Meremere drag strip, on the main S.H.1. Fantastic facility, can't wait to get a run around there.... She used to run karts when she was younger, I think a run on the track brought back some fond memories....
Sounds like a solid project. Like the apartments with 2 car garage on site. Have wondered when we'd see more of that type of thing, ala golf estates. No noise complaints from the neighbours either! Wonder if they'll use the trustees for flaggies?
What a fantastic venue James. Man its changed. I remember doing a few laps in TQ (3/4 for thiose who don't know) on the old oval............
She used to run karts when she was younger, I think a run on the track brought back some fond memories....[/QUOTE] My Mum used to fly air ambulances and then got into hot air ballooning, they would get on well!!!!!
My god thats an unattractive angle to photograph a Dino! Looks worse than a bug-eye. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Understand from a friend who emailed Gavin Bain that the unusual exhaust note was from a very different eight into one exhaust system. Did Bob run this system BJ ?
yes Bob built that or it was with the car when he bought it off Hamo. They banned the 8 into 1 in histroics,one of the reasons he pissed it of.
saw a lovely F1 360 Spider in rosso corsa with plate ENZOS in CHCH on the Lyttleton to Sumner Road. Guy obviously knew the car well and was pushing it pretty hard for a damp cold road with grit around, not much less than I could in my 997TT but then that has 4WD... Sounded like he had a tubi or similar and the car looked and sounded fantastic. Even with the Scuderia, CS, Enzo etc grabbing attention, a 'plain' Spider in RC absolutely took my breath away! Was this anyone on the board?
Nero daytona 599 Gt south road around 12noon, (as seen at turners a couple of months ago...) Silver Diablo VT rodester (some road in Auckland??) around 2pm Drove a V8vantage today, still too young for an Aston I think, but great car, easy to drive, didn't start my engine like the 355 but still very nice....
Agree on the Aston, I nearly bought one for my wife but didn't. It wasn't that impressive to drive and the seat bolsters got in the way of the gearchange. Beautiful to look at though! She got a Cayman S PD1 instead Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
