Fraser wrote::thumbsup:
The Underdog, 1966 Dragster for sale.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230433769922&ih=013&category=98062&_trksid=p4506.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D2%26ps%3D6%26clkid%3D7680927940928696545

They were hard/mad b'stards who drove those. That's an awful lot of machinery to be straddling, let alone the un-silenced exhausts only inches away! Looks like a pretty nice restoration. With it's provenance I would have thought it would be worth way more than the top bid of $12.5k??

Assuming the owner/driver knows where the throttle pedal is, this would be quite awesome http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Specialist-cars/Competition-cars/auction-272733482.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motor ... 804314.htm

i want

ratrod wrote:When I was a kid there was a dude, kinda old and he had one of those 70 Mopar coupés (maybe a 70/71 Charger) but green and it had a tow bar. And with that tow bar he towed a trailer with giant native NZ birds that he made out of chicken wire and some sort of plaster/cement.

I remember reading an article about that guy in NZ Classic Car. It must have been about 1995 because I was a subscriber back then. It stuck in my memory because I think he was the guy that made that big kiwi that sits on Eketahuna's main street.

It sounded like the car was pretty cool, but I can't remember what it looked like.

I remember what NZ Classic Car was like though. Black and white newsprint and lots of interesting articles for $3.50 odd. It went downhill when it switched to full colour I reckon. Glossy pics are no substitute for actual journalism, and I liked dreaming about buying the $1500 clunkers that used to be in the classifieds. Now it's all $30,000 porsches and other stuff I can't afford :-(

Toko wrote:

ratrod wrote:I remember what NZ Classic Car was like though. Black and white newsprint and lots of interesting articles for $3.50 odd. It went downhill when it switched to full colour I reckon. Glossy pics are no substitute for actual journalism, and I liked dreaming about buying the $1500 clunkers that used to be in the classifieds. Now it's all $30,000 porsches and other stuff I can't afford :-(

NZCC is balls now, full of brand new 'future classic' megazillion dollar cars
Weirdo's, lost their target market

Then again, the classic car market is saturated in cheque book restorers these days - so oogling a Cayanne and a MGB in the same mag kinda works

meh

Datsane wrote:The people driving did like the fact that I almost fell of my bike while going past say "Oooo Ahhh"

I did that in Palmy once. Except I wasn't on my bike I was walking backwards and turned around into a lamp post.

While we're on the subject of wedding cars, a photo from my wedding that my mate gave me the other day:

Playing the guessing game here again, obviously its a Ford, looks like a Galaxie...63?
Either way its very cool

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motorsport ... F1-circuit

Late last year I was all set up to be at the Grand Prix - motivated by the F5000s being a support class

Sadly other commitments has been snatched away from me

ratrod wrote:

Datsane wrote:The people driving did like the fact that I almost fell of my bike while going past say "Oooo Ahhh"

I did that in Palmy once. Except I wasn't on my bike I was walking backwards and turned around into a lamp post.

Yeah I've done that in town acouple of times

Colin they are meant to be doing another series like the Bruce maclaren (sp) trophy next year, but in honour of someone else. Chris Amon I think. Which would/should bring a lot of the same cars.
I'm sure this was there

Datsane wrote:

ratrod wrote:

Datsane wrote:The people driving did like the fact that I almost fell of my bike while going past say "Oooo Ahhh"

I did that in Palmy once. Except I wasn't on my bike I was walking backwards and turned around into a lamp post.

Yeah I've done that in town acouple of times

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Gawd, me three, 'cept it was driving slowly into the back of a Taxi. I was gawping at a car with a big gnarly scoop.

nostromo wrote:Playing the guessing game here again, obviously its a Ford, looks like a Galaxie...63?
Either way its very cool

Very very close! 1964 Ford Galaxie 500. The other wedding car was a '65 Galaxie.

Datsane wrote:Colin they are meant to be doing another series like the Bruce maclaren (sp) trophy next year, but in honour of someone else. Chris Amon I think.

Yep - Chris Amon next year.

Which would/should bring a lot of the same cars.

I didn't make it to any of the rounds this year - but there were two thing happening. The Bruce McLaren thing that bought out a few McLarens we might not see next year - was there a couple of Canam cars and possibly the M23 F1 car this year?

But the other thing that has been gather momentum for the last few years is the F5000 Revival Series. I've seen them at the Whittakes* meeting at Mansfield a couple of times. It's a series that is growning stronger every year - 20 + rumbling V8 cars and some close racing at the front of the field.

They should certainly be back next year.

* I don't think Whittakers have been sponsoring the November MG Club classic meeting for a few years now - but they did for that long that the name still hangs on.

What ever cars go it should be a bloody good day out. If I can make it this time.
I still haven't made it to a race meeting thats had F5000 running.

Colin wrote:

Datsane wrote:Colin they are meant to be doing another series like the Bruce maclaren (sp) trophy next year, but in honour of someone else. Chris Amon I think.

Yep - Chris Amon next year.

Which would/should bring a lot of the same cars.

I didn't make it to any of the rounds this year - but there were two thing happening. The Bruce McLaren thing that bought out a few McLarens we might not see next year - was there a couple of Canam cars and possibly the M23 F1 car this year?

But the other thing that has been gather momentum for the last few years is the F5000 Revival Series. I've seen them at the Whittakes* meeting at Mansfield a couple of times. It's a series that is growning stronger every year - 20 + rumbling V8 cars and some close racing at the front of the field.

They should certainly be back next year.

* I don't think Whittakers have been sponsoring the November MG Club classic meeting for a few years now - but they did for that long that the name still hangs on.

Andrew and Brian Whittaker now have grown up daughters who are into horses, and like any good parent they are supporting them. They sold the McLaren F1, stopped sponsoring motor-sports sadly. But the MG Classic has such a reputation that even the organising committee still call in the 'Whittaker' meeting.

I Race in classics now, but was the pit and grids manager for the event for nearly 12 years. The numbers entering are declining sadly, and the quality fields we got back in the mid 90's are disappearing. I think with the emergence of the MONZA series and similar up north and the focus of Motor Sport NZ on the tier one classes interest and sponsor dollars has dried up a wee bit.