| Re: Heron Mk4
Rick,
If all they can nail me on is the pistons then I'll be doing alright! Besides in those days circumventing the import licensing was almost a national sport. Everybody pitched in to help!
A lot of genuine factory racecars 'lost' their ID and became something else for the same reasons. Some guys would somehow get later model cars, often brought in as 'parts' by kiwi mechanics returning as part of teams for the Tasman Series. They would then use the papers, registration number etc of the old car to legitimise the new one. The old one would then continue to be raced by a new owner on the papers from a written off Cortina or similar. By then no govt body had an interest in the old car. And the promoting clubs were not concerned so long as there was a registration plate of some sort for each car. They never checked that the description matched the car. It wasn't their job to enforce govt regulations. Of course, that now makes proving some of these cars are genuine cars for historic racing purposes something of a mission.
Sorry for the thread drift. |