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THE KIWI RESURRECTION OF A GROUP C MAZDA

+ AVENGE OF THE 1UZ-FE + KEN BLOCK HITS RALLY WHANGAREI + THRASHING A BOOSTED KEI CAR

CONTENTS

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MIGHTY MIDGET POWER SPEEDWAY MIDGET–POWERED DATSUN 1200

28 RESURRECTION OF 44 A TRAILBLAZER LIGHTS OUT

KIWI-RESTORED MAZDASPEED MARCH 84G

ROAD RUMBLER

1UZ-FE-POWERED CHRYSLER AVENGER ESTATE

KEI TO THE CITY

THRASHING A MUGEN-EQUIPPED HONDA S660

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006 EDITORIAL 008 ED. TEAM CHATTER 010 NEWS 014 GIG GUIDE 016 SOCIAL SLAM 018 D1NZ NEWS 043 SUBSCRIBE AND RECEIVE 064 FAST FACTS 088 WEEKEND WARRIOR 090 P’CAR BABE 092 NAC BIKE SHOWCASE 094 PRODUCTS 096 CRUISE MODE 098 UNDER CONSTRUCTION 100 DAILY DRIVEN 102 LOCAL SPECIALISTS 104 DRAG TIMES

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040 MR UNSTOPPABLE

ENEOS INTERNATIONAL RALLY OF WHANGAREI 2019

052 THAT’S A WRAP 056 ENDURO SPOTLIGHTS 066 THE ROAD TO 400MPH DRIFT SOUTH 2019 SEASON ROUND-UP

HOME-BUILT HOT RODS

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746-PLUS-KILOWATT SR20 BUILD — PART FOUR

82 HONDA: THE POWER OF DREAMS INSIDE HONDA’S COLLECTION HALL

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22 1970 DATSUN 1200 COUPE

Mighty Midget

WHILE MANY MIGHT HAVE DREAMED IT, ANDREW DID IT, SHOEHORNING A SPEEDWAY MIDGET POWER PLANT INTO HIS DATSUN 1200, AND THE RESULTS ARE PURE PERFORMANCE PORN!

power WORDS: MARCUS GIBSON PHOTOS: AARON MAI

IT’S BEEN FOUR YEARS SINCE WE WATCHED AS A NEAR-ROTTEN MAZDASPEED MARCH 84G ROLLED OUT OF THE CONTAINER FROM JAPAN. RECENTLY, IT WAS TIME TO SEE IT RETURN TO THE TRACK AFTER THREE DECADES

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1984 MARCH 84G

WORDS: MARCUS GIBSON PHOTOS: ADAM CROY, SUPPLIED

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he old adage ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know’ never rings more true than in the world of cars. It’s through these connections that true gold can be unearthed or perhaps those parts that you simply can’t find anywhere for sale these days magically appear. So, when your circle of friends includes motorsport legends such as Yoshimi Katayama or T Okura, then those little gems tend to be some truly special pieces of Japanese automobilia, as evidenced by the string of Mazdas that Warwick and Andre Mortimer have purchased and imported over the years — cars that would never have been offered to the general public.

Of this lot, arguably the most important and significant piece has been the March 84G chassis No. 7, which Mazdaspeed campaigned for one race only: the 1984 Fuji 1000, with it surviving 153 laps of a possible 226 before a turbo failure ended Mazda’s hopes.

It was Mazda’s first and only foray into turbocharging their rotary Group C racers, seemingly built as a test mule in between running the 1984 727C and 1985 737C, both N/A 13Bs. While the didnot-finish (DNF) at Fuji might be seen by many as a failure, to Mazda, it was an important stepping stone in rotary-engine development, this being a serious road test for the first 13B turbo power plant, which would later find its way into the FC3S RX-7 chassis.

mrUnstoppable PADDON PROVES HIS CLASS AGAIN WITH A DOMINANT PERFORMANCE AT THE ENEOS INTERNATIONAL RALLY OF WHANGAREI 2019 WORDS AND PHOTOS: STEVE RITCHIE

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ew Zealand is blessed with seemingly endless ribbons of gravel road slicing through the countryside, roads that have international admiration and roads that strike equal parts of excitement and fear in drivers of local or international calibre. Of the six events that make up the national championship, it’s round two, the 2019 Eneos International Rally of Whangarei, that brings the most hype and international flavour with the addition of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) round.

This year, there was an unusually high contingent of New Zealand drivers competing in the APRC, including last year’s NZRC champ Hayden Paddon and 2017 champion Andrew Hawkeswood. Returning once again to the dusty roads of the Far North was international ace Ken Block, who was behind the wheel of the ‘Hoonigan’ Ford Escort

Cosworth. Unfortunately, his rally was marred by technical issues: first, the gearbox broke during testing, then he struggled with powersteering-pump failure early on; a huge disappointment for fans not to see the Block running. Another of the international superstars and YouTube sensations was the Irish pairing of Frank Kelly and daughter Lauren Kelly, who were driving Frank’s older ‘Baby Blue’ Escort.

As always, racing started off under lights on Friday night, with Special Stage (SS) 1 and SS2 on the 1.25km Pohe Island stretch of road, which, new for this year, featured a 1m high jump. As expected, it was Hayden Paddon in the Hyundai AP4 who set the fastest times, with under one minute on both runs. Samantha Gray was his codriver for this round, having previously co-driven for Regan Ross in an Escort in the Historic Class and winning the Historic Championship with him last year.

Leg one continued on to Saturday, when the cars travelled north of Whangarei to take in stages Marlow, Tapuhi, Crow’s Nest, and Helena, all twice over. Paddon/Gray continued to dominate throughout the day, registering first placings and fastest laps, despite having lost time due to a broken axle and time penalty.

However, in the NZRC top category, it wasn’t so straightforward.

The Subaru New Zealand pairing of Ben Hunt and Tony Rawstorn had to settle for several second placings, to finish the day just 6.4 seconds up on Hamilton man Stephen Barker in a Lancer Evo IX. Day one saw several retirements, including Emma Gilmour, whose Vantage Suzuki Swift blew a head gasket, while Clint Cunningham and Raymond Bennett had a massive crash in their Zestino Ford Fiesta forcing the closure of the stage they were running on, with the cars having not run receiving aggregate times.

“Basically, I misjudged the distance to the entry on the corner due to the thick fog. By the time I realized I was past the entry and started to turn, I was at the apex and it was never going to make it around the corner,” recalled Cunningham.

Returning once again to the dusty roads of the Far North was international ace Ken Block

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44 1980 CHRYSLER AVENGER ESTATE

LIGHTS OUT IT MAY LOOK LIKE JUST ANOTHER OLD CHRYSLER AVENGER, BUT THIS UNASSUMING WAGON HAS A ONE-TWO COMBO UNDERNEATH THE SKIN THAT’S READY TO PUT YOU TO SLEEP

WORDS: JADEN MARTIN PHOTOS: ADAM CROY

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