Solved: PN #613 -- Roy Rowe's Ford V8 special

[pnegyesi]

Please tell me a few things about this car. I am not sure about its builder, but I know the country, mechanical basis and current owner. So tell me those and a point is yours

[pnegyesi]

Experts?

[D-type]

New Zealand built Ford Model A based dirt racer.

[pnegyesi]

locked for you to give me the final piece - the name of the owner. It is Ford based but not Model A - AFAIK

[D-type]

Please unlock - I know 4/5 of nothing about the New Zealand racing scene.

Ford V8 power.  Owned by Peter Leversedge?

[pnegyesi]

Ford V8 power - c'mon you can find it!

[D-type]

Much to my surprise I have found it!

Roy Rowe's  Ford V8 special, which the website describes as:

1938 V8 60 Special - This car was built up at the turn of the century as a period special from the 1930s using an American 1938 Ford V8 60 engine, 2.3 litre, 136cu.in.; 1938 Lincoln Zephyr 3 speed gear box, with 1940 English Ford front and rear axles and steering box; using transverse springs and cable brakes; aluminium body.

Even if the engine is a 1938 Ford V8, I would not describe it as a "1938 ~" as it was built very much later.  But I suppose I'm a pedantic purist

[pnegyesi]

See, I told you