While living in Rotorua he won the Waikato hydroplane championship and participated in cycle and motorcycle racing.
[1] In the 1950s his interest turned to motor racing and he drove and developed a car known as the Edelbrock Special.
[3][4] He also competed in hill climbs and at the Tahuna Beach races in Nelson and drove midget cars at the Aranui speedway track for three seasons from 1953–54 to 1955–56.
Driving one of these vehicles he set a New Zealand flying kilometre speed record of 157.4 mph for cars in the 2000-3000cc class in 1959.
[8] After this incident Shuter retired from driving in national events and only competed occasionally in local races in Christchurch and at Tahuna Beach in his V8 special.