‘MUCH ADVERTISED RACING CAR HOAX’
Kiwi Bill Stone was like many aspiring young racers — quick, good with his hands, and skint.
He became a disciple of that wily old fox Roly Levis, a contender for the best driver we’ve produced who never tried his hand in Europe. Roly’s cars became Bill’s cars, initially a Formula Junior Cooper that Denny Hulme had brought back with him after his Driver to Europe experience in 1960, followed by a Brabham BT6, also an ex-Junior, which Bill spread across half of Timaru in a massive accident on the road circuit in February 1967. Stone was fortunate to walk away from this and had a quick-witted marshal to thank, because the fire was something Bill was still talking about right up to his death in 2012. He rebuilt the Brabham and raced it during 1967/’68. He then sold it and headed off to try out the gypsy-like life of the European
