Rodger Anderson’s 1969 BMW 2002 Ti Alpina, at Baypark in 1970. My memory of the BMW 2002 Ti Alpina I owned and raced in the New Zealand 1969/70 and 1970/71 seasons are that it was a wonderful car. I had just finished two seasons racing a...
Winning with BMW in New Zealand By Richard Bosselman Neville Crichton is a guy who left school at 14, found his feet when he landed a job as an automotive salesman, and discovered he has a golden touch in business. By the late 1970s the biggest-volume used-car...
Having had 12 years single-seater racing, including six of those years in Europe, yielding six British/European Formula 3 victories, I concluded my Formula 1 dream was over. While still working in Europe, I was approached in 1986 by Toyota New Zealand, who were setting up...
1973 Ex-Works Amon/Stuck BMW 3.0CSL 'Batmobile' Owner: BMW Museum, Germany This BMW 3.0CSL was driven by Chris Amon and Hans Stuck as part of a two-car BMW ‘works’ team of BMW CSL cars entered in the eight-round 1973 European Touring Car Championship (ETCC). This story covers a...
Group A DTM | Owner: BMW Museum, Germany Development of the BMW M3 Group A resulted in a competition car that was to carry off more victories in subsequent years than any other car in its class. In the course of its first season, Roberto Ravaglia...
1984 Ex-Jim Richards | JPS BMW 635CSI Group A | Owner: Peter Sturgeon, Christchurch Peter Sturgeon’s 1984 BMW 635CSi Group A car is one of those built by Frank Gardner’s JPS-backed team for the Australian Group A Touring Car Championships. The car was driven in 1984...
Chassis# CSX203 –Owner: Ernie Nagamatsu, California, USA Ernie Nagamatsu’s good friend Max Balchowsky (creator of all the famous Old Yeller sports racers) helped Ernie buy this Cobra long ago. Californian dentist, Ernie Nagamatsu is the second owner of this 1964 Shelby 289 Cobra chassis number CSX...
Chassis# 2501 (#2523) – Owner: Peter Giddings, USA Of all the Maserati 250Fs built, without doubt the one now campaigned by Peter Giddings has one of the most complex and fascinating of histories. #2501 was in fact the very first 250F built and test-driven during 1953....
P126 chassis# 01 V12 2493 cc – owner: Graham Adelman, USA Graham Adelman from Virginia, USA, is bringing two 1968 Tasman cars to the New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing celebrating Chris Amon. The first car is the 1968 Ferrari 246T car that Chris Amon drove...
Owner: Peter Burson, New Zealand The Talon MR1A Chev F5000 was a production version of the McRae GM2 designed by New Zealand’s Graham McRae. American-based Jack McCormack purchased the GM2 project from McRae and built five Talon MR1A cars, but these were some 50kg heavier than the...
Chassis#02 – owner: Peter Burson, New Zealand Chris Amon had had a wretched season in 1974 with his advanced but untested new 1974 Amon AF101 F1 car, and the car was finally shelved after only four races. Thereafter Chris accepted a drive as a British Racing...
Story by Ron Maydon I was in Germany a while ago, and whilst talking to the owner of a workshop he showed me a pile of bits he said was a 1974 Amon F1 car – the only one ever built. He said that Chris Amon...