Some details have come to light in this thread on the Roaring Season.
"Graham Park was the Marina man,back in the mid sixties ,I think first he raced a Plymouth coupe or something similar ,then we raced Anglias together 66/67 ,after that I think he went o/seas and worked for Broadspeed ?, he later returned to NZ and built up and raced the Marina V8."
"A very interesting Marina it was as well. In it's most developed form it had a turbocharged 4.4 litre Leyland V8 'midmounted' behind the driver. From hazy memory, no transaxle was used, the gearbox went straight to the diff with little or no driveshaft in between."
"Another little snippet of interest is that of Graham Parks incredible Morris Marina V8. The car caught fire at Bay Park and no one could actually see that it was alight because of the tinted windows. Because of this there was a MANZ law change that banned tinted windows...."
"I'm quite impressed by the quality of the Morris Marina. That is a nicely turned out car."
