78 years ago when I grew up as baby Boomer. All resources were extremely scarce. One Important Over Riding Philosophy was to  B able to trust & B trusted. Your Word was your Bond. Hand shake was your life.

Sadly with time the above is disappearing with the advent of Money / Power / Politics / Modern media / Spin / Influencers. Most of my business life I have craved to find old fashioned type business owners to work with

Benefits of Chasing 500 +

I truly Love & really enjoy the fact that It attracts People with Old Fashioned PASSION & that CMR is driven by Passion & not Money / Fame / Glory / Power. CMR operates / survives on.  “Your Word was your Bond. Hand shake was your life. “ Which means that TRUST prevails.  No written contracts needed.

Because of last year’s Tyre Failure on CMR Spinner at 523 Mph & the fact that new 550 Mph tyres R not available………… Problem. Eventually 4 months ago CMR were left with only one option – to use older tyres from the past & make new wheels to suit.

Panic – Need 30 Wheels in 16 weeks !!!!!!!! Much  brain storming / talking.

Amazing Journey

Ph call from Katrina Stent. I know somebody etc etc who knows Gautam Khanduja India.  https://mansons.in/. Eventually I talked to Gautam & Team on a Sunday morning. Amazing to have communication with Gautam – a man who also exemplifies the philosophy, Your Word is your Bond. Hand shake is your life. Shortly afterwards a test wheel arrived.

Quick trip by Katrina to India. AMAZING. Deal Done. Sealed with old fashioned HANDSHAKE. PURE TRUST. No paperwork. As in the past.

WOO HOO.

Fantastic relief at latest email received from Hariharan Iyer (Mansons). “We are deploying our entire team to complete all the activities to ship our the wheels during the course of next week.”

Chasing 500 Mph is becoming a closer Reality

Special Thank U to all the many others that have who have helped and  / Contributed / in the spirit of PASSION & TRUST as above.

Including Many NZ Engineering Companies in Alphabetical order

Colin Buckley —         https://www.buckleysystems.com/

Michael Kearney —   https://iscar.co.nz/

Nick Jones–                https://www.kje.co.nz/

Paul  Riddell —            https://quirkengineering.co.nz/

Richard Mason —      https://masontool.co.nz/

Sergio Santos —         https://www.pyramideng.co.nz/

This Outrageous Adventure continues with many rewarding stories 

Cheers

The Humbled LSR Racer

Manson Team & Katrina – May 2025

Manson initial wheel discussion.

Wairua 2 Wheels. Machined June 2025.

Wairua 2 Manson test wheel bolt torque.

Katrina & Steam Tractor – March 2024

Katrina India.

Philosophy Team Work