Fast Marina Magazine

During the early '80s, a mid-engined Marina raced in the NZ Sport Sedan series.

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."

Wow Bryan, what a monster! Fantastic find

wow Beast and a Bit eh?? thanks for sharing

oh yes! thats some marina coupe! 8)

F**king hell!! thats a stunner!

Loving that very much, is it still about?
That would be worth restoring and seeing.

Wow that is some coupe. What I wouldn't give to own that little beauty. Anyone want to buy a Mumford :roll: :roll:

Gary.

Shame you'd just dither along at 45mph in the middle of the road going to get your pension in it

Oh Josh, if only you knew????? And this coming from someone who's clutch control is so bad he needs 2 spare gearboxes for his "old mans saloon"

Gary.

JubileeNut wrote:Loving that very much, is it still about?
That would be worth restoring and seeing.

I haven't been able to find out anything about it's current whereabouts.

I have a record of a 1974 Marina fitted with a 4400cc engine, first registered in Oct 1982 and cancelled in 1995. Back then race cars still had to be registered :roll: "exempt Class A", so it could be this one. :?

locost_bryan wrote: Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:34 pm

JubileeNut wrote:Loving that very much, is it still about?
That would be worth restoring and seeing.

I haven't been able to find out anything about it's current whereabouts.

I have a record of a 1974 Marina fitted with a 4400cc engine, first registered in Oct 1982 and cancelled in 1995. Back then race cars still had to be registered :roll: "exempt Class A", so it could be this one. :?

www.facebook.com/roger.davis.399/videos ... _video_tab
If you click on my face book link above.
Graeme has found and restored the Marina. and its running in Historic Sports Sedans here in NZ. Currently using a SB Chev engine, but a new Turbo P76 is being built

Cool, more videos are now required.
Nice to see it in good nick.

Loving the pseudo 'JPS' logo!

Can be seen racing at Baypark in 1984 https://youtu.be/ou47qha5j6A

Photos of the car at a recent historic meeting can be found here https://www.muzzpix.com/personal-project/