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David
Chapter 11 of the Dunlop Book of New Zealand Motorsport by one David McKinney supports your post!
To widen the topic a little, this Allcomers era in NZ was similar to the later Sports Sedan category in Aus and the UK's Super Saloons a decade or two later but with much more of a DIY flavour.
Standouts from the era apart from the fastback Anglias include Garth Souness' Morrari, a Chev 327 powered Ferrari Super Squalo with a lowlight Morris Minor body draped over it and a rear engined Chev powered Renault Dauphine.
However the most outrageous, certainly the most successful and probably the final straw as far as the authorities were concerned was Robbie Francevic's "Custaxie", based on a 1956 Ford Customline sedan with 427 (7 litre) Ford power once they had sorted out a LSD so the power got to the road it was unbeatable.
Were the Ford TC powered chopped and chanelled A40 Farina's of Ron Rutherford and Avon Hyde from this era or the later OSCAR series?
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