[Nobbys Nuts]

Just a small note on Peters nickname and the real Legend.
He was actually driving home from night school in his mums car on the gravel road he lived down. I cant remember what the car was. As he came around a bend there was a possum sitting up in the middle of the road looking at him in the lights. We all used to see if we could hit them(cruel I know but we were all young and foolish) the possum took off across the road and Pete swerved to chase it and in the process went up the bank and hit a tree - just like a possum.
His first car was as Lowryda stated a Mk1 Cortina, self built with a Olds engine in it. It was a real beast. To us that new him, he was a legend then.
Pukekohe was where we grew up and although we were not best mates or anything like that we did know each other well enough to say gidday and have a drink if he was ever in the pub with the boys.
I had been in Australia nearly 10 years and hadn't seen Possum in probably 15 but I went to see the start of the Qld rally in Caloundra a couple years back knowing he would be there. I was just standing in the crowd watching him sitting in the car talking to one of his crew before the event started and he looked at me, then looked again and got out of the car to say hello and ask what I was doing there etc. Possum was that sort of guy. He never forgot.
He will be missed and I too will be looking into building a model of one of his cars so I never forget the living legend that I had the pleasure of knowing.