John is 70 years of age. He joined the Wellington Car Club in 1963 and started racing in 1965. In 1974 John raced an XA Falcon coupe for four years, then a RX3 Mazda till 1983 when he then shifted to Rotorua in 1984 and built a panel beating and paint shop from scratch.

In 1991 John found Jim Palmer’s first 1971 Holden XU1 in a wrecker’s yard and rebuilt it and raced this car on and off until 2012. John also drove the XU1 in the 1996 Targa Rally .  John has also been racing the 1965 replica Rod Coppins Zephyr Corvette. He also managed Joe McAndrew and his rally car for the 1992 and 1993 rally seasons.

John Marslin - 1965 replica Rod Coppins MK11 Zephyr:

John is 70 years of age. He joined the Wellington Car Club in 1963 and started racing in 1965. In 1974 John raced an XA Falcon coupe for four years, then a RX3 Mazda till 1983 when he then shifted to Rotorua in 1984 and built a panel beating and paint shop from scratch.

In 1991 John found Jim Palmer’s first 1971 Holden XU1 in a wrecker’s yard and rebuilt it and raced this car on and off until 2012. John also drove the XU1 in the 1996 Targa Rally .  John has also been racing the 1965 replica Rod Coppins Zephyr Corvette. He also managed Joe McAndrew and his rally car for the 1992 and 1993 rally seasons.

1965 replica Rod Coppins MK11 Zephyr::

John Climo of Levin built the replica Zephyr for Rod Coppins to drive at the 1983 Ardmore reunion. Rod achieved three firsts a second and a fitth place.

Rod, who had been very sick, died five weeks later. This was the last racing car that he ever drove. Since then Jim Richards did some laps in it at the Wellington Street Race and then Denis Marwood drove it at Wigram. John purchased the car in 2000 and has changed the car a wee bit to look more like the original car. It now has a 350 Chev blue-printed motor, a Richmond Super T10 four speed gearbox and a Woolsley 6/110 diff. This car has competed in five different festival race meetings at Hampton Downs.