Mk2 Sports Racer in 1963.

Ross Baker with the Mk2.

Mk2 driven by Ken Richardson at Pukekohe.

For 1963, following on from the success of the Mk1, Ross and Bob decided to build two new cars using the air-cooled flat-six Chevrolet Corvair motor, along with its four-speed gearbox. This was the era when most six-cylinder cars were a three-on-the-tree column gearchange system and four-speed floor change gearboxes were almost unheard of at the time. These two cars would be a team effort with Ross driving one and Ken Richardson the other

Unfortunately, the Covair engines were impounded on arrival. Corvairs were never built in New Zealand, so the Corvair engines were seen as competition to the major manufacturers, hence they were impounded, and Ross eventually had to send them back to the states

A Daimler V8 motor from a SP250 sports car was purchased and subsituted. For the running gear, they used the transmission from a Citroen DS. Being front-wheel drive it was not too hard to turn it around and put it in the rear. Ross had designed and made the necessary adaptor plate, for the Daimler motor to sit mid-ships.

Naturally, it had to be tested, and as Bob’s farm was next to the Rotorua airport, the car was driven from Bob's farm, down the road and into the airport. Testing was carried out on the runway in between DC3 landing and take-offs. Imagine trying to do this today with all the red tape!