The Car
16g Limited Saloon Car, is based on a
1998 Corvette. The vehicle has a Peter Kuriger Engineering Chassis
with
a replica fibreglass body.
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The Engine is a 357c.i. small block Chevrolet
which was built by
Tony Marsh of Marsh Motorsport Auckland, has cast iron heads and 600
Holley carburettor.
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The Gearbox is HQ Holden
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Differential Morris
Commercial
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Suspension Front and rear
suspension is VW torsions with HT Holden shocks.
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The Braking system is RX7
Mazda.
The Cars
I started racing in
1975 in the Colin Topp self built Mini at the Tokoroa Stock Car
Club (Tokoroa being where I lived from 1974 to 1977). I won
a lot of races then due to the lack of Saloon Cars racing in those days.
I only raced that car for 1 year. Sometimes we had more spectators
than machinery.
The next car was a Ford MK1 Cortina built and raced by
Tokoroa rally driver Albie Kuttle, we used to do a lot of
travelling to the old Bay Park Speedway, and in those days there were
plenty of Cortina's racing at Tauranga. The car had a 2000cc
motor with twin side draft Weber carburettors. In
1977 I moved back to Gisborne in where I ran the Cortina for another season.
In
1979 I purchased the Gisborne Roll Car which was a Morris 8 body
and chassis with a 1600 VW motor in the rear, the car had 4 roll
bars, the two bars in the middle of the car had sprung loaded
suspended bars that when the car was going into a roll I would
push this lever in the car which dropped the bars down to make a
full circle. The car only had a clutch and accelerator. I only had
the car for one season and held the record for the most completed
rolls. I did 7 roll over's and the record stood for 22 years before it was
broken in 2001 by Gary Evenbly who did 9.
In 1983 I purchased a P
B Vauxhall B Grade Saloon Car, at the time B graders were the way
to go. We had at least 23 cars in each race, I won the B grade
points for 3 years in succession.
In 1986 myself along with Mike
O'Connell built another B grade saloon this time a MK3 Cortina which
ran a 250 Falcon motor which was built on Australian Ford Cortina specs. In this class
we had a lot of HT Holdens, Fiat 125T, PA Vauxhalls, Toranas and
Minis.
In 1987 I brought my first Super
Saloon Car, the ex Bruce Freese Monza.
The next year 1988 I brought
the "HOMBRE" Corvette off Dave (Butch) Sutton a week after he won
the BOP Saloon Car Champs (this car would have had to be the best
Super Saloon Car I ever
owned) I ran the car for the next four seasons.
In 1992 I brought my
first Injected Super Saloon Car, a Corvette from Chassis Builder Kevin
Moore the day he won the Waikato Saloon Car Champs at the Huntly
Track, I ran this car for another 4 seasons.
The next year I took
the Corvette to Chassis Builder Martin Halcrow (Wellington) who made the
Corvette into a Pontiac Firebird which I ran until the end of the
1997 season. I had a lot of bad luck with engine blows and the diff
letting go so I decided to call it quits and parked the car up until
it sold in 1998.
I had a season off then decided to buy the car
that I'm currently racing, a Corvette Limited Saloon which I
purchased from Mark Osborne of Rotorua. It is a really awesome car. |
