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The Magazine of the Constructors Car Club (Inc)
May 2002
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On the Cover:
Dave Bray's 356
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The Magazine of the
Constructors Car Club Inc
May 2002
Issue 4 Volume 15
Club Officials
Barnicol Engineering
for all mechanical engineering
In This Issue
President:
Jon Loar
Secretary:
Dave Clout
Club Captain:
Brian Worboys
Treasurer:
Steve Strain
Club Meetings
172 Eastern HuH Road
Ph 5676 652
(opposite Taita Station)
Brake & Chassis Specialists
Custom-made Radiators & Repairs
Custom Part Manufacturers
Alloy & Steel Welding
Drive Shaft Balancing
Exhausts
Steering Systems
Engine & Gearbox Conversions
all other Engineering Work
The Constructors Car Club Inc meets at
7.30pm on the second Tuesday of each month
at The Vintage Car Club, 3 Halford Place,
Petone (Eastern end of Jackson Street).
Prospective members or others interested in
building their own cars are welcome to attend.
(The club does request a donation of $2
towards running the meeting.) Meetings
generally include a guest speaker or
demonstration followed by general discussion
and supper.
The Club Magazine "Spare Parts" is produced
monthly from February to December each
year. Contributions and advertisements are
welcomed. Contact the Editor on Phone
(04) 4796370.
Editor
Ron Stroud
Phone: (04) 479 6370
e-mail:
[email protected]
Opinions expressed in this
magazine are not
necessarily those of the
Constructors Car Club
(Inc).
Coming Events .......•.........................................
Meeting Minutes April 2002 ........................... .
Ankle Biter's Column .................................... ..
President's Report ........................................... .
Registration Story ........................................... .
Windscreens in Close-up ......•..........................
"That Invitation to Breakfast" ....................... .
Nice to look at but nicer to use ....................... .
Australian sports marque ready to roll .......... .
Quiz Cars .................................................... .
Show Report ................................................... ..
From the Bridge .............................................. .
Classifieds .................................................... .
A very special "special" .................................. .
Trivia May 2002 .............................................. .
Car Show News ............................................... .
Retro style in reverse ....................................... .
Driving Reminiscences ................................... .
Motorkhana times ........................................... .
Projects to Date ............................................... .
Who's Who .................................................... .
Autralia's fastest ute in reverse ...................... .
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Club Correspondence to: Typesetting, graphics
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Constructors Car Club
Box 45-064
Epuni, Lower Hutt
and printing by:
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Ph 8l. Fax: (04) 970-5056
e-mail:[email protected]
----Tues 14 May - Club Night
August 3rd and 4th- Car Show
Club member Bede Harris will be our speaker See page 23.
and will be bringing along his very special Saker
SVIR. This machine was built especially for Next Committee Meeting
racing and it's sure to cause a lot of interest.
Tues 21 May 7.30pm
Garage Tour, Sunday 19 May,
10:00am start. The meeting point for this garage
tour is Dave and Sandra Bray's garage at 2
Findhorn Place, Papakowhai. To get there from
Wellington, take SH1 and turn right at the lights
just after Porirua. first left round the back of the
Aotea Lagoon and then right into Tweed Road.
Proceed up the hill until either you find Findhorn
Place or you come across a bunch of strange
looking cars. After giving Dave's new project a
thorough eyeballing, the plan is to proceed North
to the Kapiti Coast calling in on Mike Boven,
Ross Bridson and the Wests. After that, it's an
about turn and after another couple of interesting
stops we will finish up in Wainuiomata. If you
want to know more about the itinerary ahead of
the day, please give Brian Worboys a call.
Tues 11 June - Club Night
An unusual night. John Wilson, a very early club
member who recently returned to the Hutt area,
has organised a film-slide-video (I'm not sure
which) show covering New Zealand home built
cars. It sounds intriguing, and knowing John, it
will be good. A 'must be there' night.
Alan Stott's Place
53 Blue Mountains Road
Silvertream
Upper Hutt
The other day I was in Repco. A lady
comes in and asks for a seven ten cap.
We all looked at each other and said,
"What's a seven ten cap?"
She said "You know, it's right on the
engine. Mine got lost somehow and I need
a new one.
"What does it do? She said she didn't
know, but its always been there.
The assistant gave her a note pad and
asked her if she could draw a picture.
So she makes a circle about 3 inches in
diameter and in the centre she
writes "710".
Now turn to page 7.
New Members
The Constructors Car Club warmly welcomes the following new member:
Rob Schrickel:- Platinum 356 Auckland (ph (09) 521-5667)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Rob after many years of serviCing Speedsters decided that he could make one and it
would be better than the original. So using all the running gear from hos "custom Bug" and
another 356 body he took some moulds and they are now in production.
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Coming Events
President: Jon Loar
Committee had been very busy. We took his
verbal report as the next best thing for now.
Secretary: Dave Clout
Moved: Grant Major
Apologies:
Anthony Moult, George apologised for Roy, Ian
Macrae, Bernard Wright, David Harding-Shaw,
Alan Price.
Visitors:
Len - Dave Frost's father out from England for
a visit.
David Jenn .... ? - down from Palmerston North
on behalf of a group building Locost cars to
check us out and get any good ideas.
Ross Martindale - friend of recent new member
Simon Legg, Ross has an XJS with a 400 cu
(goes too, secretary saw it at
inch Chev
the recent Alexandra Rd hill climb).
va -
Out of Towners:
Garth Stevenson - turned up late, he was on
his way back home after a trip down to the
mainland.
Seconded: Bruce Eyre
The report was accepted by the meeting.
Adoption of the Audited Financial
Statements and Report:
The Treasurer, Steve Strain, presented the
report. Member Dave Bray had audited the
accounts. Steve thanked Dave for his efforts.
Steve drew our attention to the Statement of
Financial Performance, Statement of Financial
Position, and the Current Resale Stock levels
reports on pages 42 & 43 of the current (April)
magazine.
Moved: Patrick Harlow
Seconded: Brian Robinson
The meeting approved accepting the statements
and report.
Election of Officers:
President: Jon Loar
Moved: Graham Brown Seconded: Derrick
Confirmation of Minutes of the last Halford
AGM:
Elected unanimously
The 10 April 2001 minutes were taken as read
(since they were printed in the previous May
magazine) and accepted.
Moved: Ian Price
Seconded: Alan Stott
Secretary: Dave Clout
Moved: Jon Loar Seconded: Mike Boven
Elected unanimously
Treasurer: Steve Strain
The meeting approved the minutes.
Moved: Tim Hutchinson Seconded: Rob West
Adoption of the President's Annual Elected unanimously, almost - Derrick objected,
awkward cuss.
Report:
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Jon reckoned he forgot to write a report but he
had mentioned the AGM in his April Presidents
report in the latest magazine. Jon gave a brief
summary of what he could remember of the
years activities and promised us the real thing
for the next magazine. Jon mentioned that our
membership was growing at an alarming rate,
but that finances were good, and we have been
active. He also mentioned that the Technical
Club Captain: Brian Worboys - after the
President kept asking ....
Moved: Dave Frow Seconded: Dave Clout
Elected unanimously - (phew, thank god for that,
thought I was going to get stuck with it for a 6th
year in a row. Then the other night, 17/04/02,
Brian suggested that the grass motorkhana has
almost become a "Dave Clout Institution" and
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that he would like me to continue dOing it, and
like a sucker I said maybe. Brian has promised
to organise the coming garage tour though.
DJC)
Committee:
Jon Loar, Dave Clout, Grant Major, Patrick
Harlow, Steve Strain, Ken Rogers, Brian
Hanaray, Alan Stott, Ron Stroud, David Frow &
new member Wendy Harding.
Moved: Tim Hutchinson Seconded: Tony Calvert
Elected unanimously
Elected unanimously
Historian: Patrick Harlow
Moved: Derrick Halford Seconded: Dave Clout
Elected unanimously
Annual Subscription: To stay at current
subscription level
Moved: Rob West Seconded: Dave Clout
Passed unanimously Derrick commented that if we run into financial
problems during the year we could look at
raising the door/raffle donation for club nights.
exemptions, roll bars and 4 point harnesses
won't need a MSNZ authority under this new
system.
Grant also mentioned, well someone did, that
Sam Lyle is bursting with enthusiasm about his
next 2 SL's under construction.
There was only one technical question - Paul
Needham asked about the required clearance
under his De Joux. The answer was that if it
had been certified at it's current height originally
then there was no problem now. From memory
this question had arisen from comments made
to Paul at WOF inspections.
Technical Committee:
Roy Hoare, Tim Hutchinson, Alan Price, Grant
Major, Dave Clout, Anthony Moult, John
Cumming, John Bell, Mike Boven, Phil Derby,
Roger O'Brien, John Mander, Brian Worboys,
Bruce Eyre, Mike Macready & Rob West.
Moved: Dave Clout Seconded: Alan Stott
Elected unanimously
Magazine Editor: Ron Stroud
Moved: Dave Clout Seconded: Bruce Eyre
Elected unanimously
Advertising Manager: Dave Beazer
Moved: Rob West Seconded: Dave Frow
Elected unanimously
Shop Steward: Brian Hanaray
Moved: Dave Clout Seconded: Ken Rogers
Elected unanimously
General Business:
Inward Correspondence:
Derrick Halford wanted it recorded that the
committee had done a good job during the
previous year and that club numbers had grown.
Wellington Newspapers - invoice for AGM
notification - $23.54
Dave Beazer noted that the proposed upgrade
to the Vintage Car Club rooms were on hold,
and this point was confirmed by Russell, a
Vintage Car Club member. This lead Dave into
the question of what the club intended to do with
the excess funds from the car show. Dave noted
that we are going to need storage space for
some of the show bits, leading up to the show
and afterwards. He was hoping that we might
be able to use some of the funds to solve this
storage problem. President Jon said that any
excess funds would be put back into the next
show. At this pOint (I think) a possible new
member, Ross, said come and see me after the
meeting, I might have a friend who can help.
LWTA Representative: Grant Major
Technical Committee Report:
Moved: Dave Clout Seconded: George Ulyate
Grant was called upon to give us an update. He
informed us that Tim Huthinson had undertaken
to document various build manual changes.
These were to take into account the recent
legislation changes that have and are
happening. Some of these were - alternative
standards, frontal impact, wheels and tyres, air
bags - restore to original spec's if they are
activated.
Elected unanimously
MotorSport NZ (MSNZ) Representative: John
Cumming
Moved: Dave Clout Seconded: George Ulyate
Elected unanimously
Coffee Mug: Alan Price
Moved: Dave Clout Seconded: Jon Loar
Elected unanimously
Membership Register: Patrick Harlow
Moved: Dave Clout Seconded: Jon Loar
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Grant also mentioned something about the
LTSA and authorisation cards to do with roll
bars, seat belts and how this system was to be
extended to include hand controls etc. for
disability. The idea proposed that fender
Wellington Car Club- April 2002 issue Motoring
News
The Sports Car Club of NZ - Sports Car Talk,
March-April 2002 issue
NZ Petrol head - Vol 5, NO.3 March 18 issue
Outward Correspondence:
Replies to new member enquiries by Patrick.
MotorSport NZ:
John Cumming reported briefly about the up
coming AGCM. He informed the meeting that
he and the secretary would be attending to
represent the club and to vote on various remits
as instructed by the committee and interested
members. He drew our attention to his article
on page 23 of the magazine.
Spare Parts (Magazine):
Alan Stott, who had taken back the reins while
Ron was away, commented that he had to edit
the magazine down from 60 pages to 44 to
comply with the edit set down by the committee
recently to keep the magazine cost down. Those
articles left over will be put in by Ron when he
takes back the reins after his little break.
Shop Steward:
Brian had no real comment, but someone yelled
out something about him having plenty of rivets
available. Brian was heard to mutter something
about bringing more sizes along to the next
meeting.
Buy, Sell or Swap:
See these elsewhere in the magazine.
Mystery Car:
Fax to Wellington Newspapers - Notification of
AGM
Zeta - Dave Hanson
Previous Events:
Zeta - Ian Price
Steve Strain gave us a brief summary of the
Tironui Farm run. They had a very successful
grass motorkhana, closest to the bucket with
golf balls - hit by a golf club of course, a pleasant
lunch, a bar-b-que, and clay bird shooting,
though not necessarily in that order. This was
followed by a prize giving at which everyone got
a prize, so as Steve pointed out, they were all
winners. 18 people participated. Special)hanks
to Carole for her efforts in helping Steveset this
event up. Next time we will be hoping for a better
turn-out.
Zeta Kelvinator, fibreglass, out of Australia Peter Yard
Future Events:
Sunday 14 April - Grass Motorkhana at
Trentham Memorial Park
Sunday 19 May - Garage Tour
Lightburn Zeta, 75 kph in reverse, 2 stroke John Hill (hey, I saw something about this vehicle
in the latest Classic Car magazine. Page 65,
and to think I thought John was pulling our leg
about it existing. No one got the year though).
Guest Speaker:
Dr Philip Wong
And what a speaker he turned out to be. This
guy was a natural comedian. He had most of us
either smiling or laughing for most of his talk.
Because of this fact I had trouble taking any
serious notes - well that's my excuse for this
month anyway.
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Philip said that he loves meeting
people who are passionate about
liking cars. He really loved his first
car that he bought in 1986, a 1951
Morris Oxford, 3 speed column shift.
He waxed lyrical about this old car
for sometime to our amusement.
When asked why he bought the
Honda, he replied "passion". It is still
not a perfect car but it still had lots of
things about it which endeared it to
him such as the noise (exhaust note),
handling, and various other features
which meant it gave him great
pleasure driving it. It attracts quite a
bit of attention from the boy racers
and Philip likes to use the loud pedal
whenever he gets the chance.
The Ankle Biterls Column
The view you would like to see
Thankyou Brian Hanaray for getting
Philip to come along and share his
"toy" with us and entertain us - a
brilliant speaker.
I will start this month by giving you all a little bit
of useful info about where to find the distributor
for Pricol instruments since a few members
have asked me in the past where I got the ones
in my Leitch. Telling them that they came via
Barry Leitch of Leitch Industries hasn't always
been helpful. While reading an Aussie magazine
the other day I saw the following details: NZ
Distributor, CDL Auto Parts Ltd., Phone (09) 262
1417.
Guest Vehicle:
Honda S2000. I took a few photo's
of the car and hope they reproduce
okay.
Raffle:
Number: 70 Won by: John Bell
And a sight for sore eyes
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I only found out recently that some of the
members who don't get to many meetings are
not aware who the "Ankle Biter" is. With a little
bit of detective work you could have worked it
out but to save you the effort, it is I, the
immediate past Club Captain and still current
Secretary, one Dave Clout, the short one who
sits at the front desk attempting to take minutes
at meetings. I was going to rename this column
the "Secretary's Column" but thought it could
be a bit restrictive in what I could comment on.
As some of you may know I have quite strong
opinions on some topics. An "Ankle Biter" can
comment much more freely, so from now on I
will endeavour to comment constructively on a
wide range of topics if the editor chooses to let
my ramblings get published.
Next I will comment on the membership forms
and your enclosed cheques. Can I again request
please, that you don't staple your cheques to
the re-newal forms - takes me ages to pull the
staples out without damaging the cheques.
Thanks for your co-operation on this small but
time consuming little annoyance. I have a few
other little small modifications to the re-newal
form that I will be discussing with Patrick to
make my job, and future secretaries, jList that
little bit easier. Ah, I feel much better now. Oh
yeah, it also helps when posting in your forms
to put PO Box 45 064, "Epuni", Lower Hutt. For
you out of towners, Epuni is a little group of
shops about 2 or 3 km from the CBD of Lower
Hutt and will speed up the Post Office getting
your mail to us. A small point maybe but could
stop your mail being returned.
I have to raise this next point since it is becoming
a regular occurrence now each month. If you
move addresses can you please let either myself
or Patrick Harlow know your new address. We
have had quite a few magazines come back to
us lately, and that doesn't include the ones
Patrick sends off without an address - true, I kid
you not.
I was sent an article recently from the far north
(read Jafa country) that appeared in the Friday,
April 12 NZ Herald. It was about one Neil Fraser
who is still exporting "7" style cars to Japan.
Nothing new I hear you say, but some of the
recent ones have little Suzuki Cappuccino turbocharged, 3 cylinder, 660cc engines. Neat huh.
I haven't made any progress on the Coupe
again, but the old ute now has a new electronic
distributor, Bosch coil, electric fuel pump and
this weekend I hope to find time to fit the recently
rebuilt Holley 600 4 barrel carbo Lets hope that
improves the fuel economy.
I will finish with an apology. I haven't added up
the results from the recent grass motorkhana
so you will have to work it out yourself if you
can't wait for the official result in next months
magazine. I have sent in the actual times,
including penalties for your perusal and
amusement. It soon becomes apparent who
was out there to just hoon around. (See page
34.)
So many things to do and not enough hours in
a day.
Cheers, The Ankle Biter
Continued from
page 2.
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Registration Story
Last month's club meeting was particularly
exciting because there was a chance that I'd
get off the hook and handoverthe presidency
to some keen volunteer. Sadly, no such
person seemed to be around at the time of
the AGM so it looks like you will have to put
up with my efforts for another year. Both Brian
Robinson and John Bell took the opportunity
to retire from the committee after many years
of sterling work. The committee won't be the
same without them but I guess they deserve
a rest after all their efforts. So, thank you
gents, from all of us.
the agenda. So wing it I did and then had to
keep interrupting the meeting later on to add
bits that I'd forgotten. Never mind. For those
who are interested (anyone?) I reckon the
bit that I did in last months mag covers most
of it.
I guess I should also give Patrick Harlow a
mention since he did a very good job of
keeping me on track over AGM protocol! I
would of held up the white board with all the
names on it and done a block vote but Pat
insisted that everyone got voted in one at a
time. So if the meeting was too long you know
Two members were coerced to fill the gap who to blame.
left behind; Wendy Harding who is a recent
member to the club and Brian Worboys who Last but not least I must let you know that
I guess most of you know. We're a bit of a the CCC show task force are still working like
strange lot but I'm sure that Wendy will help Trojans. Each time I hear a little more it just
to keep us on track. After much pleading by gets bigger and better. I think a lot of people
myself Brian eventually took pity on me and are going to be very impressed.
agreed to fill the Club Captain position. Dave That's it for now
Clout is now in handover mode and helping
Brian to organise a garage tour in the very Jon.
near future. I know Brian has some
interesting plans up his sleeve so I'm sure
he'll do a great job.
Talking of Mr Clout, he managed to stitch me
up (again) by omitting to tell me that he
wanted a year end review speech from me
at the AGM. The first I knew of it was when
he calmly announced it as the next item on
Phil Bradshaw
What's the Diff Addendum
Trap for young players - something I discovered
subsequent to writing my last article on Toyota
Diff swapping is that in general terms a live rear
end with a LSD requires axles 10 mm shorter
than the same unit without the LSD, due to the
internals of the LSD being wider. This definitely
holds true for the 6.7" units (T-series) and I will
check the F-series 7.5" soon.
Basically, if the axles do not seat all the way
into the housing, i.e. the bearing retaining flange
does not sit snugly against the outside of the
axle housing (or the diffhas locked up) you need
to shorten the axles. The good news is that you
can just chop the 10 mm off the end - there is
still sufficient spline left to engage fully. I used a
cut off saw to do this.
Also - the Celica live rear axles are 20mm wider
overall than the Corolla ones.
The Cost of Being Lazy
God bless the Trade and Exchange - I bought a
1987 Toyota Celica GT4 a couple of months
back for $1500. It is in excellent condition overall,
apart from not being registered 'cos the owner
was too lazy to do it. The asking price was
$1200, but I got into a bidding war that topped
out at $1500.
I bought it to turn into parts, as I have always
wanted to slot the 2 litre turbo 3SGTE engine
into a RWD Corolla, however, given the overall
condition of the car, I decided to look into getting
it back on the road, as it would be really handy
to have a 4WD given the amount o[gravel
Joanne drives on.
The ensuing saga is still not resolved, and
involves the usual tales of bureaucracy,
incompetence and ignorance, however, the
summary is as follows:
1. If you are too lazy to register your car (or
put it on hold - which is free) then it will
drop off the register 12 months after the
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last registration expires.
2. Once a car has dropped off registration
(or been de-registered) it needs to be recomplianced before it can be re-registered,
provided the car was first registered in NZ
after 1991.
3. If the car was first registered in 1991 or
earlier it only needs a WOF before being
re-registered. Re-registering costs about
$330, however, about 2/3 of that is 12
months registration, so in real terms new
plates only cost about $100 more.
4. If the car has been complianced previously
(ie it has a VIN number) then you only need
a compliance, which costs around $250,
as opposed to the $400 odd for a full VIN
and compliance.
5. If the vehicle has been crashed and
repaired (other than minor repairs) it will
need a repair certificate before it can get
complianced. A repair certificate is issued
by an authorised repair certifier, who will
either issue a certificate stating that the
repairs are up to standard, or detail what
further repairs are required before a
certificate can be issued. This could cost
around $200-350 plus repairs.
6. If the vehicle has been modified it will
require a modification certificate before it
can be complianced. We should know all
about these ones.
7. Once the vehicles has been compliance
checked (like a strict WOF) you get 21
working days to rectify any defects,
otherwise you have to do it again. I wish
you luck in getting hold of a compliance
check off list to see what is inspected. I
managed to get one eventually, but only
on a 'if you tell anyone I will have to kill
you' basis. The danger here is you may
end up with effectively only a month to get
any remedial repair work done prior to a
repair certificate issue, plus any other
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general compliance repairs. The check
sheet is suitably vague as to what
standards are required to be met, i.e. what
constitutes a pass or fail.
which will probably still run to about $3500 over
and above the purchase cost. My guess is that
the car is realistically probably only worth $40005000, even if it is in excellent condition.
8. Once the vehicle has been complianced
you have 2 years before you have to
register it. (Yup, don't ask me why it drops
off registration after only 12 months of not
being registered).
So, the jury is still out on whether or not to get it
back on the road - I need some firmer quotes
before I make a decision to repair or wreck. I
also have another more pressing project on the
go, so the car is parked in a corner of the garage
for the time being.
What does all this mean for me in real terms?
The Celica was imported in 1996 and has had The good news is that you can do a few things
2 accident repairs - one rear side exterior guard to make it easier on you. I stripped the car down
has been replaced, and it has hit a kerb, which (took the interior out and removed the front
resulted in a wheel damaging the rear of the guards etc) to get a good look at what was hiding
front wheel well and sill. The rear quarter repair underneath - this is how I discovered the
is not bad, but has a small amount of rust in it repairs. The compliance centre was then willing
where it was not preserved properly. The sill to give the car a free 5 minute once over, from
repair (bashed out and bogged over) is which they told me I would need a repair cert.
particularly untidy and so it needs to be fixed The engineer gave me 30 minutes of his time
properly. Overall the car needs to go on a for free to outline to me the extent of work
chassis machine and be pulled straight (it looks required for the repairs to come up to standard,
like there is still some minor deformation in the so I can brief a panel beater on the scope of
floor pan), the sill fixed properly and the rust work required (and having the majority of the
sorted out.
car accessible helps the quote process also.)
The rest of the car is in excellent condition - no
rust at all anywhere else other than the sunroof
panel (which always rust) and the 110,000 km
on the speedo looks like it may be genuine. I
would like to fix it up, but I need some better
quotes for the repairs (most of the panel beaters
I have tried so far have not been helpful).
As always, ring around, and get a second
opinion. I rang six compliance centres before I
got one who knew exactly what was required to
get the car back on the road from a process
perspective.
The sad thing is, if only the guy had put the car
on hold (for free) then all it would have needed
End of the day it comes down to the cost of was a WOF and rego, and he could have sold it
getting it back on the road. It needs new tyres for $4000 (maybe more) as opposed to 1500.
and brake pads anyway, plus more than likely So, the cost of being lazy in this instance is at
new brake hoses. Other than that, the only real least $2500.
cost should be the repairs and the checks etc-
Windscreens in Close-up
By Ross Bridson
Many of us I am sure who are building roadster
or 'sevenesque' type vehicles will sooner or later
come up against the need for a windscreen
(unless you decide to chicken out and fit aero
screens). If you have heaps of money or special
skills you might be able to produce one in brass.
If not you will like me have to resort to aluminium
extrusion, cut and curved to the appropriate
shape. Ron Champion (bless him) in his little
book on building cheap sports cars describes a
method for bending windscreen frames in alloy
extrusion which I dutifully began to follow to the
Rod's Bender
letter. The process he describes involves making
a plywood pattern the same shape as the My version of the same is bend 2 in the same
windscreen to bend the channel around and a photo. Not quite crinkle free - In fact it is the
roller bender to help the channel on its way. You result after I had hammered the little crinkles
out. The crinkles may be hard to see in a black
can see the one I made in one of the photos.
and white photo but believe me they were quite
Now I must point out that the bender is an significant and you can see how the curve has
essential part of the process. Without it a horrible opened out again from the hammering process.
crinkled bend will result (bend 1 in the photo 1). Now to be fair to Ron Champion he may well
However, it was at this point that Ron's have been using 3mm wall extrusion, and a
instructions and my experience began to larger radius curve than I was attempting to use.
deviate. He describes how to make the pattern However my result was far from satisfactory and
and the bender and then glibly tells us to: a solution had to be found.
"Assemble the finished tool on to the plywood
template as illustrated (he refers to several clear The solutions were several.
pictures) attach the aluminium extrusion and use
the tool to bend it round the curve of the
template". Sounds simple doesn't it. To prove
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made a set of 2mm brass plates to fit
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process.
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fire extinguisher. MyoId bald tyres may well
cause an accident... ........ (and so on)"
That Invitation to Breakfast
Dave Bray
A small handful of members of this Club turned Post-event reconstruction and inquest-holding
out for the "Daimler Dawnbreaker" event shows that 'Constructors' members acquitted
towards the end of last month, to help make up themselves reasonably well, with the eventual
a field of some 26 competing cars - and to overall winner being our own Brian Worboys,
ultimately become part of a group of 55 or 60 flying solo in the 'Road Rat' (stopping under
people sitting down to a full-scale breakfast at street lights to read his instructions!) and being
the Lindale Farm Kitchen at Paraparaumu.
the only entrant to entirely agree with our points
of view on the answers to questions to be
A 6.00am start - well, maybe it was five past six
answered en route.
or so by the time we got organised - saw cars
off at one-minute intervals into the morning - so among all the others, the Club managed to
darkness from Tawa faced with a set of carry off the first place with Brian, and the
instructions expressed in terms of clock and/or shortest time (as usual) by Ian, the 'oldest 17compass faces ('Turn three o'clock at ...... " or year-old in the Club', and I would like to think
"Turn East at ...... " type of stuff) which took them that everyone enjoyed themselves - which was
for a variety of high altitude views of the early certainly the way it appeared on the day.
morning scenery before clocking in at the Mega
Centre in Porirua for a quick cuppa and a second The event will be on again, at about the same
date in 2003 and I, for one, will be there bright
set of instructions.
(?) and early. Why not join us then?
This in turn took those who could both read and
interpret the instructions through Paremata, over As a little aside all entrants (except the Prices
the hills to the back streets of Pukerua Bay and whose help was needed and who were therefore
Paekakiriki, down to the coast through Raumati 'in on the joke') happily signed an indemnity
and through Otaihanga before arriving at Lindale before the event which included the lines:
for a well-earned tuck in after a couple of hours "I, the undersigned (indemnify the Club and the
driving for some and a couple of hours of brain- organisers etc) ......... as I affix my signature to
work for others.
something that I haven't read. This proves that
While 'her indoors' and I had planned the route I am dulled by lack of sleep, off my rocker box,
so as to occupy an elapsed time of two hours probably intoxicated if only by the beauty of the
and five minutes, and to cover 45 miles or some morning, and can't tell a con-rod from a key in a
72 kilometres, there were some quite can of sardines. MyoId bomb of a car is probably
considerable variations in both time taken and without warrant offitness or current registration,
has moth balls in the fuel tank and petrol in the
the distances involved.
Relevant results by Constructors members were:
Brian Worboys (solo)
Ian and Sonya Price
Andrew & Jill Weeks
Greg & Wyn Clout
Trevor & Sally Alvey
Alan Be Barbara Hoverd
Dave & Carole Frost
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in the Road Rat
Daimler SP250
"Rice burner"
Maserati
Morrie Minor
Morrie Minor
Cobra
140 points
120 points/46.5 mls and 1h.48min
120 points/82 kms and 2h.16min
120 points/82 kms and 2h.12min
110 points/47 miles
100 points
90 points/2h.03mins
While I can't blame anyone (everyone) for falling
for this gag, especially when presented with a
clip board by Sonya with instructions to sign on
the dotted line (well, she scares me) it is
nevertheless an interesting comment on the real
value and significance in the eyes of most people
of any sort of event indemnity or the like.
Nice to look at but nicer to use!
Dave Bray
Much as I like looking at and admiring cars,
that's not what they are made for in my view driving 'em is what it's really all about.
he left in Hawaii he thinks he's found me a
complete 356 braking system with those big
finned drums and all the bits.
From there, over to Nelson for the Volkswagen
event over Easter when you might recall rain
and high winds disrupted many activities around
the country. Nelson was once again a haven of
Over the Easter weekend we took ourselves off fine weather, and 'just in case' the owners of
down to the South Island to catch up with a few the motel we stayed at offered us the use of
old friends - we lived in Blenheim for five years their carport for the duration of our stay; they
long, long ago - and to go to the Volkswagen were probably taking pity on these two old idiots
Nationals in Nelson with our VW-based 356 and their car with no roof.
Speedster.
Many classic car clubs would envy the VolksOn the way down we spent a couple of nights ability to put on a weekend event such as this
with Kip and Sue Colvey, a pair of Porsche every year, as well as the attendance which
enthusiasts from Hawaii who moved here a few results - this year something in excess of 130
years ago to live near Picton where Kip runs a cars by my count, carrying a couple.of hundred
specialist 356 restoration and servicing business participants.
called 'One at a time', a name which goes a
long way towards explaining his business The Saturday morning street parade through
philosophy, despite having a five-bay workshop. Nelson central city streets was a revelation, both
for the numbers actually on the road -I counted
A long story could be written about this chap 126 in addition to those who had established
who once ran "Kip's Foreign Auto Parts" in themselves at vantage points to take
Hawaii and I'll do that sometime, but he has photographs - and for the absolutely amazing
quickly established a reputation amongst this assistance by way of traffic control received from
country's air-cooled fraternity. By way of the local constabulary, which enabled this large
illustrating this - while we were there he had group to stay together for the entire event.
one car on the hoist, up from Christchurch for a
'brake job', while the next job lined up was to be There were quite a range of interesting vehicles
a complete overhaul of the engine and in Nelson, but one which caught my interest was
transmission on a 356 cabriolet being brought a 1951 Beetle of Francis and Vicki Baptist of
Auckland. This car was imported from Belgium
down from Auckland.
as the result of a successful bid on the Ebay
There are many others doing this sort of work Internet auction site, and in his own words was
around New Zealand but specialist work literally ' .. exactly as the seller had described it..' which
comes to him, and in the meantime the Colveys must make a nice change and would surprise
and their children enjoy a very pleasant rural many who have ever bought a car without
lifestyle in the Marlborough Sounds.
seeing it.
However, it is possible to do a bit of both to meet
up with some interesting people in the process
and to have a lot of fun while you're at it.
And, as part of a swap deal for a car body that
It occurred to us that Ian Price might be
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interested in this story as he's a keen Ebay user
and has experience of buying 'sight unseen'.
A full body-off rebuild was required as had been
anticipated, and eight month's work by the
panelbeater owner, has produced a 'bug' which
is as near perfect as any that I have seen.
Trophies awarded to class winners over the
weekend comprised a nicely chrome plated VW
con rod mounted on a wooden base, containing
a photograph of each winner's car on display,
neatly fitted into the big end of the rod. A nice
idea, and not too expensive nor too complicated,
and presented on the day of the actual judging.
donned overtrou', jackets, woolly hats and
gloves (damn - forgot to bring gloves!), as of
course, we have no roof for this wee car, nor a
heater for that matter!
OK, pull your sleeves down over your hands
like the kids do - and at least it's not raining!
The lake shore was deserted except for some
Japanese tourists cowering out of most of the
wind in the shelter of their mini-bus, so after a
quick chill-inspired comfort stop we turned and
headed down the 70-odd kms of the Wairau
Valley, to seek warmth and sustenance in the
English 'replica' pub the "Cork and Keg" at
Renwick.
This is going to be a tough act to follow for the
Wellington Club which is putting on the Easter Replica car, replica pub but undoubtedly genuine
2003 event; 'Early bird' information on that event grub - a place to recommend, and to help things
is already available - and in true modern club along the landlord's a car nut!
fashion this can be found on the Internet at
With ferries having been cancelled for several
www:vwnationa/s2003.orcon.net.nz for anyone
days over the weekend, we were lucky to get
who might be interested -like maybe 'Mr Editor'
back on the Lynx we had pre-booked; the last
with his 550 Spyder?
Lynx sailing before they gave it up as a bad job
For reasons which escape me, the Judges for another day or so .
decided that our 356 fitted into the class
Cars were crammed on - they said an extra 30
description of being "Coachbuilt", and while the
- as efforts were made to shift some of the
fibreglass form of construction is not what I have
thousands stranded on the wrong side by
long believed to be meant by that term, it did
cancellations, and we were packed so tightly
result in our bringing home a spare con-rod for
that we both had to scramble out the same side
the collection.
of the car before the next one could park
Sharp eyes may be able to see this piece on alongside. Needless to say the sailing was
the bonnet of the Speedster in the delayed by all this extra activity, and fairly
accompanying photograph - a shot which I have crowded in the passenger space too.
used to justify the heading on this article.
The trip through the Sounds was no problem,
Heading back from Nelson towards the Picton but when the bar was closed just before Perano
ferry (not to be confused with the Porsche Head and the crew started donning their surgical
"Ferry") we chose not to use the direct route gloves, getting out rubbish bags and telling
but to cover about twice the usual distance and people to sit down and stay seated, it was
travel via the Nelson Lakes National Park area evident that the trip was going to be 'interesting'
and back down to Blenheim through the Wairau to say the least.
Valley.
Swells, described as being 'three metres' were
We left Nelson in the sunshine - short sleeves rolling through from the South, so the skipper
and all that - heading up from sea level through headed south and we pitched into and out of
the Golden Downs Forest towards Lake Rotoiti them until we were far enough south (we could
which is at an altitude of about 600 metres, all see the salt works down at Lake Grassmere
the time with one eye on the darkening sky. quite clearly) to turn across them and run
Once the sun had disappeared the temperature towards Wellington - when the fore-and-aft
dropped rapidly due to the southerly coming off pitching changed to an interesting side-to-side
the snow-covered tops, so we stopped and rolling motion.
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Passenger behaviour was interesting too. There But at least - it's not raining!
seemed to be three categories - most folk being
Back safely in Wellington there was a bit of a
able to sit tight with little apparent discomfort or
battle getting back into our vehicles, but once
reaction (this included both of us, I'm happy to
that had been achieved we were just about
say) while the extremists on the one hand
home again, having had a marvellous week on
whooped and hollered at each wild movement
the roads of the South Island - cool it might have
of the vessel, or huddled in corners with
been at times, but at least it wasn't raining!
greenish complexions spending what must have
seemed like a very long time peering deeply into Isn't that what fun cars are for - fun?
little waxed paper bags.
Australian grown sports marque ready to roll
Reprinted/rom mycar&news
A 10 year dream by two longtime friends and business partners has come to fruition with
the rolling out of their first handbuilt sports car which has been
built in Wodonga Australia. And
its builders, John Allison and
John Heritage, have another 10
in the pipeline. Called the
Allison, this high-performance
club-man-like sports car is
'very loosely' based on the Lotus 7 but where it differs from
any other kit car is that it features a monocoque body and
mid-mounted engine and is
available in either do-it-yourself
form or turnkey (ready to roll).
The Allison is available in
Clubman 2000 or Rally form
and is priced from $19,000. (Aus).
This new sports car is aimed at the enthusiast
seeking high-performance for club competition,
rallying or hillclimbing at a reasonable cost, or it
is just at home prowling the streets as an every
day means of fun transport. The two Johr')s, who
are both engineers, developed the car over the
past three years and have spent over 11,000
hours developing it to fully comply with the
stringent Australian design rules. In most cases
it exceeds them. Unlike all other clubman cars
the Allison is not only built around a 'tub' chassis
with its engine mounted amidships, it also has
the ability to carry luggage under its front bonnet
and two crash helmets in its net-like 'glovebox'
Ready to Roll
for rallies. There is also room behind the seats
to stow gear as well.
John Allison said the mid-engine layout was
chosen because the east-west engine!
transmission lended itself more readily to this
layout with minimum modification. "It allowed
us to concentrate the mass near the centre of
gravity to give the car more 'chuckability' and
distribute the weight more evenly. "This layout
also gives the car better low-speed traction."
The car's aluminium monocoque tub, which is
pressed and formed in Melbourne, gives the car
exceptional torsional rigidity while at the same
time offering excellent side impact protection.
The subframes for the front suspension and for
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the engine and rear suspension are modular and
simply bolt onto either end of the tub for ease of
assembly or repair. Suspension is by double
wishbones, coil springs and adjustable Koni
shock absorbers al1 round. The front suspension
and anti-roll bar is mounted inboard by
cantilevers.
and is enough to see the 61 Okg car scamper from
0-100kmh in a whisker over 5secs. Its power-toweight ratio is just 5. 7kg/kW. "Obviously this time
can be bettered with the more powerful engines,"
John Heritage said "this puts it right up there with
the very elite of sports cars, some costing
hundreds of thousands of dollars."
The prototype is built to Rally specification which
includes opening doors and a full windscreen.
It is powered by a 105kW 2-litre 3SGEI Toyota
Celica engine mated to a standard five speed
Celica manual gearbox. Building on the Rally,
customers can also specify leather seats and
even a heater. The Clubman 2000 comes with
no doors, an aero screen and basic creature
comforts. The car's fibreglass body was
moulded in Cobram but the whole package is
assembled in Wodonga with the help of Keith
Meredith.
The Allison looks good, has been well thought
out and is very well put together. There is nothing
else like it on the road and the ability to choose
how you want to purchase the car is a credit to
the amount of forethought that has gone into its
design and construction. Vector Engineering,
which builds the cars, says its initial sales thrust
will be aimed at club level competitors. "Where it
goes from there we will just have to wait and see,"
John Allison said.
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On the road the head turning Allison is a real
surprise, with very little harshness but with plenty
of road feel and excellent communication
through the pin-sharp steering. Even with the
base 2 litre engine acceleration is instantaneous
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Suddenly finding myself the Club Captain I have
been trying to work out what this means. I think
the job is basically:
you have to pay tax, and you know you've built
a good car when other people can make it
perform better than you can.
Found at last: a minimalist car kit.
1. Make sure stuff happens in the way of club
activities.
For
WROUGHT IRON FURN rrURE
Brian Worhoys
Many people have asked me is there is a kit for
the RoadRat (my car, www.geocities.com/
2. Encourage actual cars to be constructed. roadratccc) and are disappointed to find that if
(Something to do with the name of the club I they are to build something similar they will have
suspect)
do the whole thing from scratch. So I have been
keeping my eye open for a kit that might be
So, combining both objectives, I must pOint out
similar, because if there is a kit it should be pretty
that there is a garage tour coming up next
simple to build and should be relatively
Sunday. Check the coming events for details.
inexpensive. Last week I found something that
Make sure you've got that day free.
gets pretty close. This is the mid-engined
"Freestyle". It is a new UK kit that is based on
Motorkhana Experience
the old BMC mini components and is about as
Dave excelled himself a few weeks ago with minimal as you can get. It even uses a net to
another admirably organised grass event that cover the engine bay.
was very well patronised. I expect its written up
on another page. I enjoyed it particularly
because I had persuaded a bunch of brave souls
to also enter driving the Road Rat. I must
confess that I do enjoy the building part of a
car, and once it is on the road it is fun to drive it.
But the real test is how the car works for other
drivers, and I must confess to experiencing real
delight at seeing other drivers finding their way
round the car's various eccentricities and getting
it to do it's thing for them.
Dave Frow certainly got the Road Rat's measure To my mind the look of it could be improved
and I believe he must have got fastest time in at with a proper fibreglass nose cone instead of
least one event. Not bad with a totally strange the sheet metal half-cylinder arrangement the
vehicle. I enjoyed watching him do a perfect 180 kit uses, but overall, it provides a tidy basic
round one peg and I swear the inside fronfwheel chassis and a car weighing in on the road at
never turned half a revolution during the whole under 500kg. It wont be to everyone's taste of
U-turn manoeuvre. Another driver who can course, but then, what is?
remain nameless turned in a creditable time on
one event by doing most of it the third gear, The cost of the kit is a bit hard to work out
including a standing start. That must be some because of all the options, but it seems you can
sort of first. Also notable on the day was a father get to rolling chassis stage with a kit costing
and son team with Junior turning in many faster about UK pounds 1,000 (plus freight to NZ and
NZ tax I guess). Everthing else would come from
times that owner-builder Pop.
wrecked Mini's and local accessory shops with
You know you have a successful business when
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out any specialist engineering required.
It would be tempting to replace the old mini bits
with something more modern and Japanese, but
once you start doing this, you might as well
scratch build, I reckon. More details are at
http://www.funbuggies.co.uk
have to really like a car with no roof at all to
take it down the West Coast. The car looked
absolutely splendid in the local scenery, but I'm
not too sure about the PC status of the company
its keeping ( the loyal brotherhood of Good "B"s,
or something).
Belay the Yard-arm and splice the Halyards
CCCTV
OK, enough fooling about you swabs, stop all
Did you see Sam Lyle's car on the telly a couple
of weeks ago. I don't blame them at all, but you
the yarning and get-ye out to the garage and
start banging something.
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Wanted for Rover va
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Performance inlet manifold and carb (standard Rover items will do to get me running)
Oil pick up pipe
Starter motor
5 spd gearbox (either Rover item from SD1, or bell housing etc to fit Celica box)
Also wanted
- Centre lathe big enough for flywheel or axle shaft.
Thanks .... Nik James 025 248 6981
*****
Want to re-engine a car, or looking for something a bit different for your next project. Paul
& Tom at Carhoots (233 2120) have a brand new Honda 1.6 VTEC engine for sale, still in
it's box. If you can't find an immediate use for it, put a glass top on it and call it modern art,
because it's a beautiful piece of engineering.
Regards, Andrew Wellum
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Averv Special "Special"
By John Mander
I submitted an article on
this machine a couple of
years ago, but at the
time, had no luck in
finding a photo. Now
having tripped over one
whilst
rummaging
through the archives, I
feel tempted to submit
another.
This fine example of special-builders art came
into my hands unexpectedly when, on a Sunday
around Island Bay, the owner took a liking to
the 1937 Wolseley I was driving (which was an
elegant British marque in leather and walnut
veneer). It offered him room for his newly born
family, and thought a straight swap with is hairy
two seater might be a good idea.
"Hop in," he said, "and I'll take you for a quick
run around the block". I wasn't too keen. The
thing was a bit rough, wooden floor, gear lever
mounted on a universal joint from some drive
shaft, no cabin lining of any sort. Etc. But we
weren't gone for long.
I seem to recall that I saw an indicated 90mph
as we swept around the coast road past Moa
Point. On our return, I knew I had to have this
car. The swap was performed there and then
(the paper work was done later), and I drove
home, proud but nervous, in my new acquisition.
I think you will agree that it is a pretty car, in the
MG mould. It is based on an early Morris 0xford
chassis, leaf springs each corner, then blessed
with a BSA two-seater Sports body. Beneath
the long bonnet lurked a flathead Ford Mercury
V8 with % race cam and twin Zeniths on a factory
manifold. The 'box was only 3-speed but this
didn't matter, because in a hurry you selected
top at 70mph and dropped the clutch, the rear
wheels spun in their eagerness for grip and you
were off.
Special "Special"
The car was built by Ewan Falkner, around 1949,
but I can't remember who I got it from.
It was not a fast car by todays standards but in
1952 there were a lot less cars on the roads
than there are now, and 90% of them were of
UK origin and quaintly identified as 8 or 10 hp
being of lesser capacity than 1,000cc. Austins,
Morrises, Vauxhalls and Ford uprights, many of
them prewar, were virtually all in this category
and although 8 and 10hp had no reference to
brake horse power, you could be excused for
thinking it could have in some cases.
Amongst this flock the special was like a wolf
among the sheep. On one occasion a friend's
mother asked me for a ride. We went sedately
down the Ngaio Gorge, headed north on the Hutt
Road then turned up Nguaranga Gorge,
whereupon I let temptation get the better of me
and let the Mercury fill up its lungs. At the top I
backed off at 85 and returned to my usual rate
of progression.
I never competed with the car, - its potential was
beyond my driving ability, but I had a lot of fun
with it. You would drive a good part of the Hutt
Road hands off, steering on the accelerator.
I eventually swapped it for a Morgan 4/4.
What became of it, I know not.
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Trivia . May 2002
The editor said something about project change gear. As a result I always tended to veer
progress would be a suitable subject for an to the left. Not a good feeling. I now have a (left)
article without even knowing if there had been foot change, hand clutch, foot throttle, (right)
any. Well for project Tri-Via 3 x 2 there has been hand brake operating on the front wheel and
a bit of progress, but mostly it has been a foot operated rear. Incidentally the park brake
succession of frustrations of which, obviously, I operates on the front wheel.
am the only contributor. I don't know whether
John Mander and Brian Worboys suffered Pedal Assembly. I was quite confident I would
similar problems. Most probably they were much be able to obtain an upright master cylinder
better organised than I am. If it had not been for similar to a Mini but with, because of its location
the need to make and remake and sometimes under the cowl, a transparent reservoir. I finally
remake again the project might have been managed to locate one but at $385 I decided to
look and see what I had available hidden
finished by now.
amongst the junk on the shelves. Especially as
Head Lights. The original intention of using the I had just paid an exorbitant $280 for a pair of
single Honda GLX 1000 headlight looked a bit new cam belts.) Lo and behold I found it; the
too Cyclops like. I messed about with the idea perfect answer. However it has meant a revamp
of using driving lights a-Ia TV3x1 but that was of the pedal assembly to accommodate it. When
altogether too costly. Managed to locate a refitting the assembly I found that the throttle
couple of Yamaha chrome jobs which looked lever fouled the steering rod when turning right.
the part, mounted them. Did not like that so More reworks.
remodeled the front end to provide a satisfactory
Chain Drive Sprockets. Having done some
result.
preliminary calculations I had an 18 tooth
Steering. Went to a lot of work designing and sprocket welded to a chopped off drive shaft
making a steering system using a Falcon hub, universal confident that I would be able to obtain
Cortina collapsible shaft and a Fiat steering box. a 27 tooth same pitch driven one. Everywhere I
Had to turn the latter upside down to make things went a bunch of "no can does". Deciding it might
turn the way you wanted to go. Finally it worked be wise to recalculate the ratios I discovered
well. About this time I thought I had better check that my original gearing would have given me a
up on the specifications for eventually registering top speed of somewhere about 60Kph at
the contraption as a Trike. Disaster! It had to 6000rpm! I am not going to attempt to explain
have handle bar steering. All those hours of work where I went wrong. I'm too embarrassed.
down the drain. The result is a reasonable Recalculated by engineer son Tim, the required
compromise I hope?
ratios are 22 output and 18 input to the Datsun
Gear Change. Having made a quite Diff. to give a more realistic 100 Kph at 3250
sophisticated mechanism, similar to a boat one, rpm. The local Engineer Shop used a ceramic
and fitted it I found two things which did not thrill bit to drill holes in the very hard original welded
me. Being mounted on the right hand side of sprocket to bolt on the current one. Eventually
the cockpit it made getting in and out difficult when satisfied or otherwise with the ratios I
but I guess I could have suffered that. However intend to fit duplex chain.
I then decided to borrow Sandy's mountain bike
to see what happened while depressing a
simulated hand clutch with the left hand and
removing the right hand from the handle bar to
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Radiator. Location wandered all over the car,
front to back, side to side, before deciding to
mount it to the rear of the motor. Not the most
desirable as it sticks further out the back than I
like.
Petrol Tank. I became disillusioned with the
central location in front of the engine of the
Hillman Imp tank and its elaborate mounting.
Finally resorted to the Honda tank mounted to
the left in front of the engine but taking up much
less room. Leaves a bit of space for the battery
and some luggage. There are many other more
minor misdemeanors that I find too boring and
embarrassing to mention.
is a proper buggers muddle. I have had several
attempts to sort it but the answers continues to
elude me. I don't even want to think about it.
Perhaps I'll just go and fit a couple of new cam
belts.
Where are we at? With many thanks to Alan
Price and his Weld Tech students the welded
chassis, now painted and in place. The body,
with the underneath also painted is attached to
the chassis. Re-assembiy of engine suspension
etc is underway. The front brake hydraulic
system which requires three flexible hoses fitted
up nicely with Honda parts.
Cables. One of the next most expensive bits
has got to be faced up to about now. Clutch
3.5m. Throttle 3.5m, gear change 2 @3m. Park
brake 2.5m, at a guess somewhere about $450.
Electrics. I thought I would be smart and do
what I did for TV 3x1. Just extended each
individual wire. Unfortunately, because of parts
locations it did not work out on TV 3x2. The result
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Car Show News
Car Show Dinner Saturday 3ni August
As many already know we will be having a dinner at the show venue on Saturday Evening.
McLaren have already confirmed that they will one of our guest speakers. If you wish to
book places for this event then contact Darryl Cooley now as space is limited.
Working Bee
There is a need for various little jobs to be done with a day being set aside later in the year
to accomp[ish them. If you would like to help out in this area can you please contact Dave
Beazer
Special Thanks
Special thanks to Metal Art group and Powder Coating Services for their help in preparing
show material so far.
Retro style puts trade in reverse
Greg Wycherly and photographer Paul Estcourt visit a
North Shore manufacturer whose classic-style cars are a
hit in Japan.
Reprinted from NZ Herald - Friday Aprilll,2002
New Zealander Neil Fraser has achieved what
major car makers have failed at - selling small
cars to Japan.
He started Fraser Cars in 1988, selling kits
based on the classic Lotus 7 design to the local
market. Now, his biggest market is Japan, where
169 of the zippy cars live. Mr Fraser said the
"coals to Newcastle" adage was a label the
company wore with pride. "people don't believe
me ... They have to come out here and see it
with their own eyes before they believe it. It is a
bit unusual, but we take great pride in it. " He
said Fraser cars appealed to the small group of
Japanese retro sports car fans, who valued the
car because it was not made in Japan. "It's the
fringe element that buy these weird hand-built
sports cars, but in a country of 130 million
people, the fringe element is really a lot of
people."
In January the company began selling a slightly
smaller version of the car that takes advantage
of Japanese vehicle registration and tax
regulations favouring small cars. Cars up to 3m
in length and 1.5m wide with an engine of less
than 660cc incur much lower on-road costs.
This means Fraser Cars can sell its "K -Class"
version for $35,000, compared with $79,000 for
the larger 2000cc model. The car is powered
by a three-cylinder, turbo-charged 660cc engine
from the Suzuki Cappuccino, which was
discontinued in 1996.
Mr Fraser said he had sold four of the so called
Fraser Decaf cars in Japan and had orders for
about another 10. Although the engine is
relatively
low-powered,
after-market
modifications can almost double the power and,
because of the light weight, the car handles very
well.
"It's significantly more sprightly to drive - it
boogies very well, gets up and goes." He
acknowledges that the disappearing stockpile
of engines means only about 20 of the K-Class
cars will be sold. "I honestly don't think we'll build
more than 20. By then there'll be another craze.
"Hopefully out of that 20 we might get four or
five people upgrading."
FRASER CARS
MEMBER COMPONENT CAR MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION OF NZ
(Inc)
1/2 Kahika Rd, Beachhaven, Box 34610, Auckland 10, New Zealand
Telephone (09) 482-0071
Fax: (09) 482-0516
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Driving Reminiscences
Ron Stroud
I was scanning through old editions of Spare The distance was about 20k and the top speed
Parts and came across an article by Bernard of the tractor was about 20 k although it did go
Wright titled "The Early Days of Driving". This faster coasting down hill. (exciting stuff) Can you
got me thinking about some of my early
imagine half a dozen kids perched clinging to
experiences and prompted me to record them
this vehicle hurtling down the road at 20 kph
for interest and possible amusement.
for an hour just to go to the pictures? Then a
When I was a kid I was lucky enough to spend return trip of another hour. The tractor was not
most of my school holidays on my uncle's farm, registered for the road of course and we were
Arcadia station at Paradise, a locality at the end all to young to have a licence. But what the heck,
of the road some 20k up the valley from there were no cops in Glenorchy.
Glenorchy which is situated at the head of Lake
On the odd occasion when the Queenstown cop
Wakatipu. In those days there was no road and
( Constable Docherty- he had to be Irish) got
the only access to Glenorchy was by the Lake
on the boat to pay a visit to Glenorchy, phones
steamer, either the Earnslaw or Ben Lomond.
rang and all the unregistered vehicles magically
In the early 50's cars were scarce and the sole disappeared into locked garages for the duration
vehicle owned by my uncle was a Ferguson of his visit. I recall one person ,aged about 30,
tractor, very new with lots of hydraulic gadgets who decided that he best get a driving licence
(for which Harry Ferguson was famous) for his forthcoming trip to the greater world
including a detachable tray which effectively beyond Glenorchy. He had the visiting cop test
turned the tractor into a sort of a ute. An addition him and the cop remarked that he was a good
that my uncle made was to bolt on another seat driver. His response was that he bloody well
so that two people could ride tandem.
should be, he'd been driving for 20 years.
Well my cousin Jim and I at age about 14, soon We found another use for the tractor, although
mastered the gear shift and letting out the clutch this was short lived. We had
smoothly, and also the steering, although the
seen people being towed behind boats standing
latter proved the most difficult. The only
on boards. This was called aquaplaning I think
mechanical contrivance that either of had driven
and was the precursor to water skiing. Any way
before was a small boat with an inboard motor
it looked like fun. We didn't have a boat but did
and tiller steering.
have a tractor. We decided that we could tow
Well you may have guessed it. On the boat we the board along the edge of the lake maintaining
pushed the tiller to the left to make the boat turn distance from the shore by leaning out. So we
to the right. It took some getting used to swing duly found an old door and a length of rope and
the wheel of the tractor to the right to turn right, had a go. It worked well and was great fun until
and part of a fence was demolished in the my uncle caught us at it. Apparently that was
process. But imagine the feeling of freedom and not a sanctioned use of the tractor.
power of finally driving a vehicle. It opened up
By this time I was approaching that magical age
many possibilities as the use of the tractor was
of 15, when I could obtain my driving licence. I
not necessarily confined to just ploughing cutting
persuaded my father to let me drive our Hillman
and raking hay, or drilling post holes, all things
Minx. After a little bit of tutelage from him,
that we mastered. No, we could for example
consisting mainly of sage advice such as
now commute to Glenorchy to go to the pictures
"assume most other drivers are idiots", and
on Saturday night.
"squealing tires cost you money", I then went
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for my driving test. This consisted
simply of a short drive around local
streets and a couple of verbal
questions on the road rules. Rather
different than now.
(Above) Paradise
(Below) the Arcadia homestead.
My mate John also went for his
licence at about the same time. He
told me of his experience. His
examiner asked him to drive into a
timber yard and then to back out
from between the timber stacks to
test his reversing skills.
John had never done anything like
that before so he sited the long
bonnet of the old Nash to keep
going straight and shot out
backwards without as much as
glancing over his shoulder. He
completed
the
manoeuvre although he was a competent driver he could not give him a
successfully but to the considerable licence unless he could answer at least one question
correctly. As a last chance he asked him how much road
consternation of the cop.
clear of oncoming traffic should there be before undertaking
The cop then asked him several a passing manoeuvre. John thought that he had better make
questions about the road rules, sure of this and querulously responded with "a mile". The
none of which he could answer. cop said if you keep to that you'll be OK, and gave him his
Finally the cop told him that licence.
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Constructors Car Club - Motorkhana, Sunday 14 April, 2002 - Result Score Sheet
Event 1
Driver
2 Dave Clout
3 Phil Derby
4 Brian Hanaray
5 Graham Brown
6 Grant Major
7 Ray Mullany
8 Tim Hutchinson
Constructors Car Club - Motorkhana, Sunday 14 April, 2002 - Result Score Sheet
Event4
Event 3
Car
Run 1
1 George Ulyate
Event 2
Run 2
Run 1
Run2
Run 1
Run 2
Run 1
Run 2
Driver
Car
Event 1
Event 2
Event 3
Event 4
Run 1
Run2
Run 1
Run 2
Run 1
Run 2
Run 1
Run 2
Road Rat
57.22
50.50
36.91
33.09
47.10
36.13
61.75
51.75
21 Gavin James
ToyotaAE86
64.00
DNF
38.03
34.37
47.03
34.12
56.06
56.28
Leitch
1.02.9
47.06
34.34
33.00
33.69
36.25
1.10.7
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22 Jon Loar
Midtec Spyder
65.13
57.66
32.97
30.94
32.56
36.87
52.03
1.08.7
23 Sandy Bell
Trivia
1.07.2
56.06
59.53
51.10
54.84
32.78
34.53
28.78
1.09.1
49.60
37.85
1.13.4
1.02.0
34.41
64.94
39.81
RX7
24 John Bell
Trivia
1.06.0
1.01.3
42.03
42.65
43.59
35.50
1.17.4
1.00.1
Integra
57.12
52.25
35.94
34.13
31.25
30.10
50.31
54.44
25 Brian Robinson
AlmacTG
58.72
53.72
37.25
36.07
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-
-
-
26 Steve Strain
Alfa Romeo
53.47
48.06
34.22
33.34
36.06
30.40
54.47
52.90
-
-
27 Geoff Philips
Midtec Spyder
53.97
52.65
57.59
30.68
30.97
33.84
1.03.1
59.46
48.84
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28 Victoria Fray
Road Rat
52.16
48.97
31.91
30.03
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-
-
-
29 Ian Mcrae
Honda Civic
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-
-
-
-
-
52.35
54.12
49.19
50.85
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Milano
1.18.5
56.78
38.66
35.57
Nissan 300Z
1.04.7
1.00.6
40.59
40.87
32.62
Nissan Skyline
53.63
49.72
34.19
32.15
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Nissan GTS4
1.12.4
47.94
36.28
33.06
32.13
28.40
Road Rat
55.88
46.44
27.71
27.09
29.15
28.29
-
Road Rat
53.60
55.03
31.47
28.25
27.19
27.28
51.91
Subaru4WD
55.0?
52.09
37.00
33.91
32.94
31.69
51.66
50.22
Subaru4WD
55.09
53.97
35.78
32.75
29.78
32.31
49.41
49.16
Toyota Starlet
64.57
51.50
35.69
31.25
28.40
28.40
53.00
50.62
Nissan 300Z
1.00.4
-
54.14
-
-
-
-
-
Escort
57.54
55.22
36.25
53.75
32.59
33.29
54.25
52.56
Escort
55.56
51.82
42.40
33.75
36.50
34.13
55.16
54.35
Fraser
54.78
48.78
45.44
33.28
-
-
Fraser
46.84
43.34
37.53
29.81
-
AlmacCobra
63.07
1.21.6
37.35
33.65
-
-
-
Toyota Trueno
53.90
48.75
45.37
42.57
29.91
1.20.0
53.40
37.19
Note: Enter time in seconds and include any penalties into time entered.
9 Dave Frow
10 Brian WOrboys
11 Wendy Harding
12 Dave Harding-Shaw
13 Nik James
14 Lois Francis
15 Naomi Bray
16 Richard Hosegood
17 John Cumming
18 Ben Cumming
19 Dave Frost
20 Oliver James
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Suspension repairs and rebuilds
Steering joints
Shock absorbers
Wheel alignment
Bushes
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Projects to Date
Martin Lucas
Pr~gress on the 23B kit has been slow this year.
Mainly due to trying to work within a sensible
budget, and having sufficient time to make the
various bits and pieces necessary.
My mind has been changing continuously on
the specification of the engine. Initially the Lotus
Twin Cam engine I bought in bits was going to
h~ve a stroked Datsun crank fitted. Special
pistons were going to made to suit the Datsun
crank and rods. That was until a strange set of
events changed my mind. Overhearing a
conversation at the Manfeild race track led me
to making contact with a guy who had a
Cosworth BOA for sale. I was looking for a set
of camshafts so approached him to see if he
was interested in selling them. In short the
answer was I could have them if I bought the
whole engine. At the same time it so happened
that Barry Leitch had bought a project car and
was looking for a suitable engine - preferably a
BOA. Many phone calls and car trips to the seller
resulted in Barry getting a BOA, I got the
camshafts. At one meeting with the seller the
conversation turned to other engine makes.
Lotus popped up - the seller had a spare Lotus
Twin Cam head which I could buy for $500. A
deal to good to pass up. It soon became
apparent that he had other Lotus engine bits
as well. In the end the final parts tally was one
Twin Cam head, the front cover, four 0.030"
oversized Twin Cam pistons, four unused 1.625"
(41.3m) inlet valves - standard size is 38.8mm,
with the added bonus of a set of Lotus Twin
Cam conrods.
The purchase of the conrods made me decide
to keep the first Twin Cam engine semi original.
Instead of fitting a longer stroke Datsun crank I
have opted back for a 'standard' stroke Datsun
crank with Lotus rods. I can retain the 85mm
forged Mahle pistons (82.55mm standard). This
means a serious saving in the rebuild of the
bottom end. To date I have fully machined yet
another Datsun crank to suit the Ford/Lotus
block. It has also been fully ground to standard
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Ford main and big end sizes. The flywheel
(machined from EN25 high tensile) is complete
but for some lightening slots. I'm having to wait
for the toolmaker at work to have some free time
to CNC mill the slots. The flywheel has been
dowelled to the crank for added security. The
conrods have been crack tested and checked
for alignment. Pleased to say they passed.
Weighing them on the work scales revealed a 3
gram weight range between heaviest to lightest
- so they have been balanced by a previous
owner. I wouldn't mind the weight range closed
up a bit though.
The ~ur~hase of a spare Twin Cam head got
me thinking. The head is generally the hard part
to source. I could build a spare engine around
it. I had a 'period' 1500 pre-crossflow bottom
end purchased last year for $50 via the Trade
and Exchange and I had the recently acquired
0.030" oversized pistons. The 1500 precrossflow block is a later 'lip seal' not rope seal
block which is good. Unfortunately it had 'round'
main bearing caps - not the later stronger
'square' main caps. The standard Ford 1500 rod
is the same length as the Lotus rod but it isn't
as strong. The Lotus rod is heavier in section
and has 3/8" rod bolts as opposed to the Ford
rod which has 5/16" bolts. The very first Lotus
Twin Cam engines ran the Ford rod but were
soon changed to the stronger 'Lotus' rod as the
standard Ford rod was deemed to marginal. The
Lotus piston has the same compression height
as Ford piston but it is a stronger/superior piston.
The Ford piston has slots behind the oil control
ring, the Lotus is solid with drilled holes. The
Ford crank is cast iron and has less
counterweighting than a Lotus crank. I did end
up with a spare Lotus crank but was found to
be cracked when tested. If I was to try and build
a spare engine I needed to have the right bits.
Block was okay but needed square main caps.
This was easy to solve - I had a spare set from
a stuffed 1600 Xflow Ford bottom end that I had
stripped for bits. I fitted these and have taken
the block to Kerry Lindsey to line bore the mains.
The Ford pistons were thrown out and will be
replaced with the cast Lotus 0.030" pistons
(83.25mm). Not as good as forged but certainly
up to the task required for a spare engine. A
few phone calls resulted in locating a set of
Lotus conrods from a Club Lotus NZ club
member I know. These replaced the Ford rods
which I gave away. The Ford 1500 crank was
scraped - the Ford crank was incorrectly ground
- the fillet radii were ground too small. A spare
L16 crank has been modified to fit (yes another
one). The camshaft in the block was modified
to be a shorter jackshaft. I modified the block to
incorporate a few ideas that I had been mulling
over after Peter Zivkovics interesting club talk.
Basically the oil drillings were 'ported' with an
air tool. Restrictors and plugs were fitted to
various oil drillings to restrict oil from being
pumped away from the crank main bearings.
Frost plugs have been retained with cap screws,
and the rough cast internal block surfaces
smoothed to aid oil return. The block was also
machined to enable the Datsun cranks' larger
throw counterweights to turn without fouling
certain parts of the block.
The ~pare Lotus cylinder head was cheap but it
requires a lot of work. The exhaust ports appear
to be larger in diameter compared to the other
head. The inlet ports appear to be standard but
may have been attacked by a previous owner.
Hopefully the port/venturi section hasn't been
touched - if d?ne incorrectly it can seriously
affect the engines power in a negative way. I
plan to send the head to Bryan Hartly in
Palmerston North when I finish fitting new cam
caps so he can line bore them and check the
p~rt~/seats etc. I have been lucky in locating an
ongmal early type Lotus cam cover as fitted to
early Elans and Lotus Cortinas. This will suit
the 23B more than the Hart cam cover I have
Whilst the cam sprockets are standard Ford
items with different timing marks I have opted
fora set of vernier adjustable. I have made these
myself using a machined alloy disc and modified
Ford sprocket. Alii need now is to locate a pair
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of Lotus camshafts plus a few
other bits.
Although I am only part way
through the spare engine
diversion I have learnt quite a
bit from it. For example line
boring of the crank changes
the crank to gearbox input
shaft alignment. I plan to get
around this by machining a
matched Hewland adaptor.
The vernier cam sprocket
from a twin cam also suits a
crossflow. Crossflow pistons
are generally accepted as
being heavy and as a result
limit revs. The lighter twin cam
piston is only lighter by 35
grams!! ACL engine bearings
can be purchased for less
than a third the price than
listed in UK catalogues.
The Britten -The picture was taken when John Britten brought along the bike to F &P
when I worked there. They fired the bike up for a few runs up the drive. Most impressive.
A real constructor if ever there was one
SAKER CARS
Saker Sprint
Saker SVI
By TURNBULL ENGINEERING
P.O. Box 9, Bunnythorpe, Manawatu, New Zealand
Phone/Fax: 06 32.9 2.92.3
web site: http://www.saker.co.nz
e-mail: [email protected]
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(06) 364-2482
Trevor Alvey
Anderson Special
(09) 479-8200
Michael AndersonChantel Jones (09) 416-0313
589-0874
Countess
382-9292
Georgina
Darren Bain
(04) 904-2261
(04) 297-2222
George Henry
Wendy
Kevin Baird
Ford Escort Special
972-6889
Simon Bartlett
569-0000 x4471
Trikes
564-2285
Neville Baxter
Chevron
939-2222
566-6209
Michelle
David Beazer
TRI-VIA
567-1686
Nancy
567-1686
John Bell #
Mcrae 550 Spyder
(07) 552 5281
(07) 552 5281
Edith
Geoffrey Bell
Cobra/Chevron
(025) 611-8404
232-3309
David Bertelsen Elaine
Lotus 7 Replica
(09) 232-8055
(025) 216-5474
Anne
Ian Bonos
021336-401
AlmacTC
(04) 902-4746
Heather
Mike Boven #
Leitch Super Sprint
(09) 445-5029
Joanne Ross (09) 420-4976
Phil Bradshaw
Fraser Clubman
498-1342
Lyn
232-6901
Roger Bramley
356 and XK120 Replica
Sandra
233-9927
Dave Bray*
Morgan Plus 8 Replica
Stephanie
(04) 904-3383
Ross Bridson
Lotus 7 Replica
(07) 576-0559
(07) 578-0477
Val
Chris Bromley
Almac Sabre
Carol Schachte (09) 412-7288 (09) 377-0006
Pete Bronlund
025 261-9434
Milano Special
(04) 298-2472
Graham Brown Wendy
939-0287
Countess
Anne
Peter Brown
Fraser Clubman
380-0104
916-3380
Terry Buffery
(03) 578-3147
Locost
Barbara
Murray Bugler
(07) 855-7222 (07) 855-7222 '27 SS Merc Reproduction
Myrlene
Doug Bunting
00613 9833 6843
Craig Burleigh
Brabham BT6
499-3764
473-0743
Tony Calvert
Lotus Elan Replica
(025) 239-7724
Carolyn Carnegie
Swallow
(06) 356-5014
(06) 326-8043
Noel Cheetham Carol
Almac TG Roadster
567-9991
232-7607
Ann
Alan Chorlton
Minis
924-2882
971-6620
Ailwyn
Greg Clout
Leitch Sprintl'34 Ford
477-4356
924-9033
Dave Clout*#
Jeep
564-8023
(025) 572-351
Therese
Glen Collins
Peter Conroy
Saker SV-1
025-922820
526-7976
Matthew Cooley
564-3441
Chevron
973-7698
Darryl Cooley
Lynette
Leitch Super Sprint
(06) 870-6902
(06) 831-0751
Deirdre
Peter Cottier
00613 9833 6843
Sharon Crespin
NZ Special/Locost
(03)578-2672
(03) 577-1607
Graeme Crimp
476-2822
Ben Cumming
Fraser 7
495-8990
476-2822
John Cumming # Derryn
Saker SV1
564-1525
920-2418
Barry Dawe
021663-114
Chris Densem
Ute
021-186-4426
568-6213
Philip Derby#
U/2 Mallock
569-5738
02136-6665
Glenis
Jim Doherty
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568-3570
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586-3827
Jan
232-8473
Don Flowers
Barbara
563-8008
Russell France
Gwytha
(03) 384-2859
Evan Fray
Barbara
(09) 833-8439
Dave Frost
Carole
(04) 298-1784
Dave Frow*
Toni Patchett 586-5050
Ken Grace
Anne
239-9369
Jack Hadley
Margaret
970-6462
Colin Hainsworth Mamie
938-4924
Sylvia
Derrick Halford
970-4028
Brian Hanaray *
389-4409
Ross Hannah
Julie
(09) 833-7214
David Hanson
562-7430
Wendy Harding *
476-2938
Daivid Harding-Shaw
Patrick Harlow * Heather
565-0993
Guy Harper
Joy
570-1257
Bede Harris
Jpanne
478-4453
Leicester Harris Betty Turner (09) 437-5982
John Hill
Vivienne
383-6377
Steve Hill
Jo
(03) 572-7570
Roy Hoare#
Eleanor
564-5978
Warren Horne
577-2557
Alan Hoverd
Barbara
389-6121
Ian Howie
Jane
973-8750
Tim Hutchinson #
237-6193
Brian Hutchison
Nik James
Chris
526-2584
Brian Jenkins
Ann
(07) 883-5705
Terry Johnson
Sonya Ryan (04) 298-7422
Martin Kavanagh Patricia
(03) 313-8128
Richard Kelly
Meredith
9721157
Michael Kerr
568-8397
Murray Kilpatrick Julie
239-9951
Brian King
Chris
(09) 266-4289
Walter King
271-2604
Carl Klitscher
934-2916
Stephen Lawson Lynda Manning (07) 577-9104
Simon Legge
Sophie
972..4142
Jon Loar *
934;2267
Megan
Andy Lovell
Anne
(04) 905 6636
Ron Lowe
Kate
388-6971
Martin Lucas
Megan Davis 562-6036
Sam Lyle
Lyn
(06) 867-2082
Grant Major*#
565-3459
George MacDonald
(04) 298-8267
Paul MacKay
801-6362
Ian Macrae
Marie
563-7222
(09) 833-4640
021992825
025-430-765
025-305122
498-4643
385-9966
025782-557
302-4630
235-7600
384-9417
567-8721
566-3396
499-3546
(09) 437-5982
939-3263
568-6213
0252857153
463-5579
472-6881
237-1877
(07) 883-5705
237-1082
(03) 374-7128
801-8797
471-7104
237-6146
(09) 266-4289
274-8911
576-5892
(07) 533-2358
470-8216
(04) 902-5596
388-0427
568-4345
(06) 867-6233
477-0000
(025) 261-0761
570-1923
563-7222
Locost
JRC 27/Taipan
Tover
Mercedes 500K Replica
Chevron
AlmacCobra
Lotus 23 Replica
Lotus Elan + 2
Special
Fiat 127 GT
Almac Sabre/DH002
MGB Roadster
Lotus 7 Replica
Lotus 7 Replica
801-5225
Almac Sabre
Saker SV1R
Beattie Clubman
JC Midge
Heron/Urba Car/AlmacTG
F/27
Morris Minor Traveller
Porsche RSK Replica
Heron, Lotus 7 Replica
Chevron Classic
Lotus 7 Replica
Almac Sabre
TCar
Fisher Fury
Lotus 7 Replica
SB Veloce
Pirahina
Alfriston Jaguar SPL
4AGE
Sphinx
Eclipse Mk2
Rover P5 Race car
Midtec Spyder
TCar
Almac Sabre
Leitch Lotus 23 Replica
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Fraser
Widget&Fidget
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973-9951
Vicki
John Mander#
477-6222
Tony Martin
Tess
939-8921
Shelly
Ken McAdam
Harold McCarthy Karen
NA
970-8225
Alex McDonald Diana
(07) 843-7512
Jill
Geoff McMillan
Svetlana
(03) 384-7304
John Messerly
Brenda
528-3406
Robert Milne
970-7842
Ruth
Bill Moffat
(04) 904-3366
Duane Moul
(06) 358-2336
Anthony Moult #
527-8429
John Moynihan
Sharyn
934-47001
Ray Mullany
973-0521
Glenn Murray
Judy
(07) 843-0108
David Nation
(09) 235-0500
Robert Needham Elaine
479-2707
Michelle
Paul Needham
Janet
234-7153
David Nixon
569-7972
Brian Nobbs
(03) 384-7441
Russ Noble
528-8144
Roger O'Brien # Heather
(06) 377-3353
Bernice
Frank Parker
475-7589
Rhonda
Julian Parsons
+61402471147
Sandi
David Pattie
(03) 385-5156
Joy
Brian Pearce
Aven
569-7044
Ken Pecor
(03) 472-7720
Peter Petchey
(03) 327-9362
Carol
Kit Peverill
475-9820
Matthew Porritt
586-6137
Alan Price #
Joan
389-3941
Roger Price
577-3013
Sonya
Ian Price
Shirley
389-4910
Lester Reader
235-5771
Trish
Jeff Reid
567-8676
John Richardson
Naomi Bray 564-8389
Ron Robertson
233-1445
Brian Robinson* Janet
(06) 356-3076
Grant Robinson Chris
526-3310
Kenneth Rogers * Margaret
(06) 357-5640
Sue
Barry Rosser
Jennie
801-5890
Dennis Rowe
477-6007
David Rowe
Natasha hansen
Liam Ryan
904-7781
Kevin Richards
(09) 527-7617
Rob Schrickel
(06) 364-3909
Christine
Bary Scott
233-2286
Lisa
Leon Smith
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385-8779
570-5426
570-6039
(06) 376-5632
528-8680
(025) 738-437
021 439-228
0800252814
(04) 237-2771
(06) 351-3610
527-8429
Lotus 7 Replica
Napier Ruxton GT
Lotus 7 Replica
4x4
JBA Falcon
Almac Sabre
JBA Falcon
Johnson Phantom
Lotus 7 Replica
Gulf7
Meridian
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Sylva Striker Mk 4
Stinger
DeJoux Gran Turismo
Mini Moke
Macrae Special
Triumph TR7
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021 366-401
(07) 834-6767
(09) 235-0500
570-4943
232-8080
566-4515
(03) 384-9023
528-8144
(06) 377-1217
472-4587
+61262171842
(03) 379-3999
384-4230
025397-368
(03) 388-1765
0800739-331
920-2434
389-3941
025458-007
389-4910
0800252814
568-8975
025-439969
(06) 355-2754
528-5873
025418081
801-5890
474-7262
(09) 846 1230
237-8279
(09) 521-5667
(025) 476-696
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AlmacTG
W
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Fraser 7
Lotus 7 Replica
Triumph Special
Lotus 7 Replica
Lotus 7 replica
Sabre/Sherman
Beattie Clubman
Daimler SP250
lotus Elan +2
Chevron
MGB
Almac Super Sabre
AlmacTG
Lotus 7 Replica
SS100
Swallow
(09) 302-0901
Platinum 356
Aristocat XK140
Chevron
W
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W
W
W
W
W
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Nick Sparrow
8019877
Mark Spooner
Karen
(07) 884-5796
Garth Stevenson
Alan Stott *
Pamela
970-9763
Steve Strain *
Carole
479-3038
Ron Stroud *
Adele
479-6370
Craig Summers Carina Tye (07) 884-8642
Ron Sutherland Francie
Russell Thompson Alena
934-8417
John Thomson
478-7587
Lance Thomson
564-8793
Neil Tunnicliffe
Donna
232-7944
Bruce Turnbull
Jane
(06) 329-2923
George Ulyate
970-6110
John Ward
(09) 818-2568
Johanna
Doug Watt
Verity Turner 972-1319
Malcolm Webb
Debbie Brock (06) 356-8089
Bruce Weeks
(07) 839-2325
Marie
Andrew Wellum Sheryl
233-1867
Rob West
June
(04) 297-1062
Michael Whitehouse
John Wilson
Jenny
526-4711
Brendon Wilson Adele
233-9286
Tony Wood
Helen
526-3626
Paul Woodfield Vicki
(06) 323-0922
Jon Woolf
Beverly
(06) 362-6390
Brian Worboys # Sireena
476-3799
Andrew Worth
Susan
(06) 329-0907
David Wright
Ann
384-3950
Justin Wright
Kali Barton-Wri 972-1566
Bernard Wright Betty
025-2704471
Peter Yard
Shelly
(04) 479-8379
Colin Young
Vicki
234-8080
914-5454
Karmann Ghia(VW)
EVa 2000
025216-1171
Locost
Cockram SS100/Scimitar
479-3039
Lancia Stratos Replica
473-7551
McRae 550 Spyder
(07) 887-71207
Purvis /Scopion
021 2154636
Cougar
0256155-225
MG TD Replica
385-9549
"Lotus 7A, Mach 7 Tomcat"
528-7041
McLaren M6GTR Replica
232-7994
(06) 329-2923
Saker SV-1
Monoposto
(09) 818-4090
CR2
025 269-6608
(06) 356-8968
(07) 839-2325
Sylva Striker
233-1877
Tiger/Fraser Clubman
(04) 568-1875
"West 52, Almac TG"
972-3333
Ferrari Replica
025400-436
Sylva Striker Mk 4
577-8866
Chevron
(06) 358-2959
Saker SV-1
025 260-6530
Leitch
471-7191
Road Rat
(06) 357-5863
Lynx
025517232
Maserati Reproduction
569-2145
Almac Cobra
939-9356
Jaguar Mk2
021 314-771
237-1101
Chevron
Australia's fastest ute, in reverse!
John Hill
Harold Lightburn of Adelaide had a successful Fibreglass body, steel floor and doors, glass
business making washing machines, concrete windscreen with plastic side and rear windows.
mixers and supplying car jacks to the big three Front wheel drive from a 325cc, 16.5hp Villiers 2
car makers of the 1960's.
stroke 2 cylinder engine. Transmission was by
roller chain in an oil bath with four speeds, reverse
It was only inevitable then that he decided to take
attained by stopping the engine and restarting in
on Henry and The General et al at their own game
the reverse rotation. Fuel efficiency quoted at
and introduced his range of 'genuine aussie
45mpg and top speed of 60 mph, forward and
vehicles' in 1964. Enter the Lightburn Zeta range
reverse of course. The station wagon had 42cuft
of car, station wagon and ute with a sports
of load space.
'runabout' model just to round out the offering.
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303 Willis Street, Wellington - Ph: (04) 801 5140 - Fax: (04) 801 6665
E-rnail: [email protected]
Website: http://vyww.rnaclennanperforrnance.com
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Access to the load space of the station
wagon was obtained by unclipping and
removing the driver or passengers seat.
This was thought to be a great feature as
mounting clips were provided in the roof
molding so providing a comfortable
vantage spot for watching sport! Unkind
motoring writers have suggested this was
an ideal place to sit while waiting for the
NRMA van to arrive.
Alloy Wheels, Tyres
Full range of Accessories
Spoilers, Bodykits, Seats Etc
Race Suits, Gloves, Boots Etc
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Servicing, Repairs
Suspension, Exhausts
Brakes, Broke Upgrades
Momo Steering Wheels & Accessories
Weird though the concept appears now over 300
were made and sold with a small number surviving.
I have been unable to determine if the Zeta was
ever very popular with the "beach and barby' set
and I still am unconvinced that the builder ever
got those 6x2s on board!
The runabout was not really an Aussie invention
being based fairly closely on the UK originated
'Frisky', perhaps 30 runabouts were sold.
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