im the kinda guy who like to know whats going on in my fair town/ country so ill will continue to put updates on here if people are interested in whats going on jan 17/18 kumeu classic car and hot rod festival, KUMEU, AUCKLAND i was at this last year. the meanest show ive ever been too!!!!! jan 24/25/26 4 and rotary nats, AUCKLAND 2 days of show and shine and drag day at champion on the sunday feb 14/15 PUKEKOHE crc summer series incl race trucks, nzv8 tourers etc march 19/20/21 Mystery Creek, Hamilton nz national motor show another brilliant event- gets bigger every year if anyone has any to add or wants more info let me know.

Um, the "Night Speed Drag Wars" I will be racing on the 2nd of January meeting at Champion dragway Also the first meeting of the "V8 Saloon Challenge" run by the Commodore Car Club..... 22nd of Feb at Pukekohe Raceway (there are classes for street cars to do sprints as well, so I assume you will be there Walkie...) Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

consider it on my wall planner! actually saw you a month or few ago shooting through spaghetti junction, with hsvsux on the trailer. i yelled CALAISTURBO.COM at ya interrupting your phone call. give me notice next time your at the nightspeed drags seiing as ive never actually been hi ho hi ho its to the (summer)nats i go....

were you the one driving a FORD???!!! lol yeah motor is on the dyno on the 20th so just after that i will have another run. so I'll let u know... have a good one at the Nats, been to a couple (5 & 7)

well i dont drive a ford as such- i just thrash it, company vehicle and all! KUMEU SHOW WAS A MINTER nothing compared to summernats tho. some nice vl's and the like. als mufflers vl calais v8 is looking good- perhaps a HSVSUX vs MUFMAN at champion would be a good sight to see.......... 4 and rotary nats this weekend. not attending the racing (rotarys at any speed at all dont really do it for me) however the sat show and shine should be good.

what does MUFMAN run?

mufman is a worked carby 308/304 not sure how extensively modified - but can be sure it is not slow!

saw it at the sprints....... I think im safe, lol

May 16th next Commo car club races / sprints all street cars welcome for single sprints. come up and say hello on the day PM me for entries / rules / race licence

May 16th- classics in the park hillclimb event is on the same day! DAMN!!!!!!!

u racing in that? most are 1930's ****e comon now get an entry form from me.....

the gearbox shop "classics in the park" hillclimb race up the auckland domain 1930's ****ers??????????? i think not last year they had tonnes of muscle cars and some nz v8 tourers should be a whole lotta fun!

it was started for classics etc. last year most people got one, maybe two runs, because rostinbuurg and a few V8 tourers got priority, rostenburg was screaming round the streets heating up his tyres (illegal for that event) and was on the radio saying im coming in and they kept waiting for him, its turned to **** that event. its all just to keep him winning....... are you racing in that?

in that case thats a bit rough. i never went last year- concreting all weekend. but ill go this year- puke can wait..... :; no im not racing- just watching- next year may be a different story

Hey guys, I'm in Auckland. I just brought my 1st VL Royale as a project car off trademe for $700.00. She just needed a new windscreen and 2 tyres for a WOF. For the price I paid for her, I made on the deal big time. Anyhow, keen to meet up with any other VL owners for tips and stuff. I wanna drop a VT 5.7 V8 mated to the 6 speed Man, and then put the Calais Front and Wilky Kit on her. Any ideas if it can be done without chopping her up? Cheers guys

well my man welcome to the forums what your wanting to do has actually been done before in a previous issue of street machine commodores. the bloke stuck a gen3 in a calais painted it blue and gave it 19" roh shadow chrome fury's!! im currently working on my wagon- sticking a walkinshaw kit on shortly and getting it resprayed

Quote: Originally Posted by Walkinshaw wagon well my man welcome to the forums what your wanting to do has actually been done before in a previous issue of street machine commodores. the bloke stuck a gen3 in a calais painted it blue and gave it 19" roh shadow chrome fury's!! im currently working on my wagon- sticking a walkinshaw kit on shortly and getting it resprayed Hey man that sounds great, what are you using to bond ya kit on? You don't know where I could find a complete Calais front would ya?

have no idea what im gonna use to stick the kit on- leave that to later the only difference between the calais and norm fronts is the nose cone (incl headlight covers) and grille. the guards are the same and headlights the same. so really you are only after a calais nosecone, headlight covers, elecs(if u want) and grille. sometimes in the t&e the come up as parts or wrecked cars....

On Trade me last week there was an auction for a set of brand new calais eye lids . don't know if they sold or not but you could look it up in the expired listings. To fit the kit on you use urathane with comes in a tube and is the black stuff you fix windscreens in to place and you can get it from panel beaters. not sure on the price but my brother is a panel beater. I am in the process of fitting a walkinshaw bottom 1/2 kit at the moment. Cheers Kris

By the way welcome to the site and hope to see you around on the road. Cheers Kris