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[oneeye]

would like any info on 2 cars made from steel from a meetworks for the meet chain in hastings i think one car ended up in huntly as 54h ont sure how has it now when it left hastings it had a hemmie in it and a morris diff

[Morpheous]

that car is still at Huntly and should be ready in the next few weeks, now in the hands of 36h Mark Caldwell running an EA Falcon.

[whaka]

36h cardwell blew his falcon mtr up last night at huntly bad luck mark!!

[oneeye]

I was told by a man from Gisborne that he wired up 54h for a Mr Robinson who made it for his son in early 90s cutting upstrips of bislory steel and making box section out of it The car then had a hemie motor an morris commercial diff The car at the moment is owned by Sam an Mark Caldwell in Morrinsville an running as 36H with a E A Falcon H Q box Mazda diff coil overs all round an still has the same coffin. The Caldwells brought the car off John Mulder who ran it as 54H John brought the car from someone in Hastings ? Who ?

[Morpheous]

I think it was number 21b from memory, the name maybe Dion Lowe or even Nigel Cooper, they were both number 21b around that time.

[antzgofast]

Is this the car your talkin bout? 21b Dion Lowe

[race36s]

This is the wrong car in the photo. Dion and Merv Lowe and Paul Demanser built this car and Dion's association with the car effectively came to a end when he blew the motor at Stratford. The car that is being talked about had a blue and white body that was done in a wavey design. Photo to follow when Dion finds it.

[race36s]

[race36s]

[race36s]

[TimSOZ]

race36s said:

Anyone know any more about this car? I'm going out on a limb here - I reckon it could well be the original Kuriger spaceframe, ex Barry Tippett. Just a hunch, I could be wrong? Either way, would love to know more about the car........

[race36s]

The dark blue body was the 1st year that Dion had the car. The next year it had a major rebuild in the off season. Basically all that was left were the main chassis runners and roll cage. Diff was changed to a Morris Commercial, a new torsion bar set up was put on to the chassis, new steering, new front, new seat, etc, etc and the final outcome as in the photo's of the white and blue car.

[pallmall]

It seems that this thread has been hijacked by a sub thread on 21B that is apparently not the car that one eye was asking about.
Shout if I am wrong.

Here is a photo of a 54H stockcar taken about 5 years ago at Huntly. Any chance this is the car that was originally asked about?

[TimSOZ]

I reckon thats the same car Pall Mall.........if you've just found the most important MIA stockcar in the history of the sport, I'll forgive you for hi-jacking

Could be wrong of course, but my hunch tells me that's Spaceframe #1. Anyone know where it is now??

[pallmall]

If it is the original Kuriger, it needs a thread all of its own.

I had better see if I have more photos of it, Yaz possibly has.

[race36s]

[race36s]

This is Johm Mulder in the ex 21b car 94/95 season.

[pallmall]

Just found another of 54H (Ian Abrahams photo)

[Devilracer]

Is this now the 28H car?

[squeaky8g]

Maybe wrong,but I always thought that the car Dion Lowe(21) bought was the Hi_tensile spaceframe built by Ted Rogers(Farm Tools) here in Gisborne for his son Stephen Rogers,which looks like the pic of the white an blue car on the previous page.but where it went from Hawkesbay I dont know