Mistral Gallery

This Mistral registration number DK57 was the demonstrator for Emslie and Flockton and featured in some of their adverts. It was built with a new Ford Anglia OHV engine and gearbox and factory built chassis. It is very original and was restored by Don Broome and Terry Cartwright and is now used by Terry as a road car with occassional race appearances. Previous owners incuded John Wright (who also owned the original Mistral moulds at that time) and someone calle Rowe. An early photo of this car appears in the NZ History section.

Mistral registration number KP1779 is on a tubular chassis with Triumph Herald front suspension and coil rear suspension. It currently has a Ford Cortina 1500 engine, but earlier was fitted with the 1340cc version. It has a unique opened up front "mouth" and a very long racing history in the hands of Peter Smith, Brian Morris, Paul Coory, Merv Patterson and Don Gerrard.

This is the Triumph TR3 powered Mistral registration number NM4931 owned and raced for many years by Chris Read of Dunedin. Chris also now owns the original moulds for Emslie and Flockton Mistral body shells.. 

This Mistral registration number AP7676 was originally built by Frank Pope, who worked for the Christchurch Standard-Triumph agents Amuri Motors. As a result it has a Standard Vanguard block fitted with many Triumph TR parts, including the rare "Le Mans" finned alloy sump. Frank Pope used it as a road car and also raced it as evidenced by a third place in the sports car race at the Nelson beach races reported in the Nelson newspaper in 1966. After many subsequent owners it was purchased in a very sad state in 1980 by John McDonagh. After a comprehensive restoration it returned to the racetrack in 2000 and has since competed in over 240 races.

This Mistral, registration number ????? has an original Graeme Dennison design chassis still fitted with the split Ford front axle. At some stage it has acquired a Ford 1500 engine and gearbox. Owned for over 51 years by Paul Tayler, it has been extensively campaigned by him since the 1980's at races and hillclimbs all over the South Island.

This Mistral owned by Don Hawkes is in immaculate condition and very original. It still has the Graeme Dennison designed chassis with the split Ford front axle and also the sidevave 1172 cc Ford engine the chassis was designed for .

This a photo of the front suspension and engine of the Don Hawkes car pictureds above. 

This Mistral body and chassis was for sale on Trademe and appears to be another with the Greeme Dennison design chassis with the split Ford front axle 

This is yet another Mistral body and chassis that was for sale on Trademe. Details on the ad as follows. MISTRAL 1958. Fully built space frame car Chassis no MS003. Probably originally fitted with a MK 2 Consul motor and 3 speed gearbox. "Rego RF6510 ON HOLD". Car stripped to space frame and body. No motor or gearbox. Painted Ford Escort diff intended to be fitted. no windscreen. also body option without boot lid.  box of bits including MK1 GT Cortina speedo and rev counter. Original front suspension and steering gear, front hubs modified to discs and calipers from an Escort. Body quite powdery, no wheels.

It appears this Mistral, registration number CJ2394, was well known and raced in the Auckland region and Ford powered. Owner was possibly Simon Boag but few other details are known.

This Mistral has a Kmac chassis and modified Mistral body. It had registration number NQ6404 when photographed racing at Wigram in the 1980's. Fitted with a highly developed 1600cc crossflow Ford motor, this car is very fast and a class winner at the Waimate 50 street race four times. It was campaigned and immaculately maintained for many years by Greg Scott, but has recently changed hands.

Mistral Registration number MISTRL was originally built in 1962 with Humber 80 running gear and tubular chassis. It was found rusting on the West Coast and a new box section chassis constructed and Ford 302 V8 and five speed gearbox fitted by the then owner. The rebuilt car was fully registered and warranted for road use and bought by Tom and Chris Taylor in 2000. This information was provided by Chris in 2005.

This Mistral was photographed at a Skope Classic race meeting at Ruapiuna Park in 2008. It was fitted with Alfa Romeo running gear and appeared well engineered. It was for sale at the time and it appears it was sold to a owner in Australia who painted it red and races it there. The red painted version appears in the Australian Mistral section

Another Mistral advertised for sale on Trademe. Appeared to have Ford mechanical components

This is an original Mistral body registration no AU165  being constructed on a modified Triumph Herald chassis, with a Mazda MX5 engine and gearbox, by Neville Davidson in 2016. Source Spare Parts magazine

David Hutt Mistral registrastion number JO831. Unique dual headlights and apparently the windscreen is the rear window from a Vauxhall.