Thread: Kiwi Bonneville Bill Ward!

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Kiwi-A-Salt's rear-engined ’27 roadster was run on the 8000ft runway at Ohakea Airbase over the weekend. Bad weather meant that only 2 runs were possible but during those 2 test runs the car was taken up to 120 mph. At this speed the car was just idling over, all systems worked perfectly and the car drove brilliantly. Driver Bill Ward reported excellent peripheral vision and all controls easy to use. Crew member Splitpin reported that the on-board camera showed that Bill could steer easily and on the slow down was steering with finger-tip control.
Bill Ward and the crew remarked that the RNZAF staff at Ohakea from the top brass all the way down were extremely helpful and were to be commended for their support.
This strong and positive result sets the team up for a strong challenge on the salt in August.....more updates to follow

Coverage of the 2 Kiwi-A-Salt runs made on Ohakea Airbase over the weekend filmed by Greg Wood, team cameraman, has kindly been made available to Sky Television. Bill is traveling to Auckland to be interviewed today and the interview and footage will screen on Sky Sports 2. The show is called Karcher Pit Lane and airs from 7-8pm tomorrow night - Tuesday 9th June.....
Make sure you don't miss this milestone test-run.....more Bonneville updates are on our website here...... http://www.nz-hotrod.com/vbulletin/s...1&page=1&pp=10

Neat stuff, thanks for the link! Sure do like the mid-engine roadster! Some very nice engineering on it! Keep us updated on how the shakedown progresses!!!!

hay guys you better ckeck with scta and bni they havent ley rear eng model ts for alot of years there has been many built over the years and went all the way there and could not run i ran bvill in the 60s and 70s and earley 80s i will call some old friends that still run there and get back to you rear eng model ts like to go backward better than than the like to go forward better to find out now than later hope the changed the rules if not sorry for the bad news ted