chev monza (Read 14,863 times)

[nato37c]

just wondering if any one has old monza saloon pictures floating round. i grew up down south and can remember norm butlers one

[damage]

There was also two running out of Beachlands Speedway in Dunedin in the early to mid 90's, Graeme Hodge ran one, the others name escaped me at the moment. I may have some pictures of these at home.

[damage]

Dave Geeves was the other.

[nato37c]

damage said:

Dave Geeves was the other.

i think trev elliot ended up with the geeves car. its a corvette run by rosco collins at the glen now

[The Godfather]

Blue monza ran out of Nelson too, Donker family I think

[Brett85p]

They were all the rage in the 80s, I think that Gary McKelvie 62W was one of the first, there are some pictures on the Speedway Archive, not as many as I expected. It was the Kuriger body of choice prior to those little Trans Ams and Camaros.

[Brett85p]

nato37c said:

just wondering if any one has old monza saloon pictures floating round. i grew up down south and can remember norm butlers one

I think that was Ray Purdys old Monza, Norm did buy his old Camaro.

[protech1]

Rick and Rod Mclaren had a monza that run out of Riverside in the late 80s, was number 333 and black the 1st year then red and white sponsored by 4ZA radio.

[legaspeed]

12B Peter Black had the Hot Chick Monza. That was a cool car.

[banaro]

i Can remember as a wee Fuller welly had a few at times tinsley? moffat ? reid? and more too i think cant remember back past yesterday though lol

[Flatchassis]

46a nigel ross still runs a monza, And was cleaning up last meeting out!! And it was a mixed field. LTD saloons with supers. Go the Motat monza!!!! ;D ;D

[TimSOZ]

Great thread nato37c, and one I can assist with a heap of pics!
Our very own Wiseowl sold his Monza to Norm Butler, here it is the season before Norm got it.




He got the car from Geoff Fletcher, who had raced it for three seasons from 1985-86.



Is a Kuriger chassis, the car stayed with Norm before returning to the NI and being converted to a Ltd Saloon for Craig Richards in late 1997-98.

Ended up with Mike Hermansen 9p until a couple of seasons ago, and is still around to this day.

[TimSOZ]

Doug Smith 1982/83

[TimSOZ]

Peter Sloman had a fantastic Monza in the 83-84 season



Which he sold to Peter McCullum who race dit for a number of seasons

[pollpot]

Kevin Bates also ran one out of Forestlake in the late 70ties.

[snowtrader]

Who could forget John Caseys Monza, one of the early ones out of Beachlands plus the later ones of Storman Norm, Doug Smith and Roy Granger all doing the Southern tracks.

[Brett85p]

There are some great pictures out there somewhere of Blondie in his pale blue Rover and Pete Sloman in the Monza pictured earlier at Blenheim side by side for almost the entire race.

[pumafan]

Geez, just checking this thread out, and it would almost be a case off who hasn't run a Monza in the past !

Cheers Bazza

[Autopete55]

flamecrusher said:

Blue monza ran out of Nelson too, Donker family I think

There was 3 Monza's from the Donker Stable at one stage.

Hank (Dad-RIP) had converted the ex Rod Penn V8 Commodore over to Monza.

Steve (Son) had an ex Purdy (?) Kuriger(?)

Tony Robertson (Son in Law) had an ex ChCh deal.

Hanks one had a passenger seat in it for ride days on their track in Motueka.

When all 3 cars were together it was pretty impressive.
Sometimes this didnt always equate to great results but it did lift the profile of Super Saloons in Nelson for sure!!

[Colin E]

Ray Wright had a Monza at WP early eighties and sold it to Ray Makene from Kaikohe.That thing used to stick to the track like the proverbial sh#t to a blanket, I used to look forward to seeing it line up on the front straight and while stationary he would give the gas pedal a quick nudge and the car virtually jumped off the ground, an awesome car. Lance Jennings had a Buick Skyhawk which I think was pretty much a rebadged Monza