Following the last newsletter Ray Deaker passed onto the snoop a video link to a mountain run demonstration of “Fangio’s C Type”. Good viewing it is too. These cars were…

The Fangio’s Toys article unearthed references to a Alfa Romeo 6C marine engine used in Argentine mecanica nacional cars. More research was in order. It turned out that there were…

The good thing about being a semi-retired chap is that there is time to do stuff for no other purpose than filling in time. Doing this newsletter for instance. But…

Late last year the snoop was musing about dragging his old seven out of the shed, straightening it out and getting it back on the track. Given the substantial rear…

I rambled around the formula junior tents at both the Skope and the Enzed meetings. As a long time Lotus fan the opportunity to get close up to all the…

Two conundrums for you. An in period but non factory spec formula junior and a sports car chassis not mentioned on factory records at all but with paperwork supporting a…

As I was sitting and reminiscing in the hot seat of Rob Boult’s Edelbrock Special at the last Scope meeting, Rob was approached by a group of drivers from the…

I have been playing with old flat head V8’s recently. Helping to coax a couple back into life at the Hokitika Industrial Heritage Park. That got me thinking of the…

The old war time adage was that walls had ears. This story is about a wall that had cars, or one of them anyway. I caught up with this car…