25-1-75 Race fans wi miss Pau Fahey's skills Four times New Lady Wigram Trophy last Sunday. In the Radio Avon sal By PETER GREENSLADE Zealand saloon car champion Paul Fahey gave the race meeting crowd the farewell thrill of a lifetime oon car invitation race he outdrove Australia's and New Zealand's best "tin top" men to score his most devastat * Wigram has seen the last of participate in a long-distance; Faney, for at the conclusion of production saloon car race, but to all intents and purposes the Bank of New South Wales he is going into retirement. series at Manfield in April he- As far as I'm concerned, intends to pack away his rac- with 25 years motor racingi ing gear. reporting as a background, It could be that from time to New Zeland will not be time he might be tempted to the same again. ing win in a long and r A professional through and through, Fahey started motor-cycles and, after winning national beach and grassirack titles, he represented New Zealand at the Isle of Man tourist trophy races and, after campaigning two-wheelers in Europe, returned home memorable career to run Volkswagens in clubl events. Then, at a time when allcomer saldon car racing was ¡ashionabie, ne moved into a Cos napare sa is thing. was prepared by his wizard friend Ray Stone to conform closely to group 2 satoon ... racing specifications, ABOVE: Paul Fahey presses on in the battered Capri to muscle Leonard's PDL. Mustang out of the lead in that Wigram farewell. With this car. Fahey won the championship in 1965, although allcomers was the category. with 62 points to the 30 of Rod Coppins who was runner-up with a Corvette engined Zeph- УГ. Since then Fahey has driven an Anglia fitted with a Lotus twin cam engine. an Escort FVA. with which he beat the "big banger" V8s at Wigram and then his own Mustang and that of the Christchurch-based PDL team. Early this season Fahey declared that Wigram was where he wanted to win and this he did in his two races in the finest fashion. That final race, in which the glass fibre fender was rioped away along with half the front demonstrations of tor rest. ing thave ever 30--