Images From My Past - Nigel Watts Collection

[ERC]

Happy memories there Nigel, when the annual Festival was the highlight of the year. Great pics as always.

#1749/2 - Bernie's Broadspeed Replica running away, top right. Has anyone seen that around lately? Fastest car in the ERC group a few years back, at the end of the Pukekohe straight, clocked on Radar. From memory, 130mph.

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[Spgeti]

Very nice FJ Holden.

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Very nice FJ Holden.

Sure is. It reminded me of the 55 FJ I bought for $100 when I arrived in Sydney in 1967 except mine was a pale blue.

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[Roger Dowding]

Nigel - First off the rank with Photos from Taupo, Thanks for that .. see if you can catch Ken H .. probably at the "Team Cambridge Monaro " tent with John Mck - think John was going to give him a lap of the track in it ..

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I didn't go today Roger & I didn't see Ken H yesterday because I was out on the trackside most of the time.

[Roger Dowding]

I didn't go today Roger & I didn't see Ken H yesterday because I was out on the trackside most of the time.

No doubt a full report will follow from them in the next few days.. Spgeti, Kiwiboss and many others were going to be there 2..

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[Steve Holmes]

Hi Nigel, superb photos as always. Would it be possible to get a selection of the Historic Muscle Cars/Historic Saloon Cars photos to use in my latest report in Classic Driver magazine?

[John McKechnie]

Nigel- thats a beautiful sequence of Falcon Coupes ...well done

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[Spgeti]

I love the Formula Vee

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Is it just me or is it nigh on impossible to load images now.

[khyndart in CA]

Nigel,
If it works like over here you have to get up in the middle of the night to complete your inputs !
But please with your great photo inputs be like Winston Churchill and " Never Give In, Never, Never, Never."


(Ken)

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Nigel,
If it works like over here you have to get up in the middle of the night to complete your inputs !
But please with your great photo inputs be like Winston Churchill and " Never Give In, Never, Never, Never."


(Ken)

Ok Ken
I'll take a deep breath and try again - soon

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That's it - now unable to load anymore pix - sorry Ken

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Seems like I can only load a max of 3 images now - and that takes forever......

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Can only load one image this time..................

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Well that's it - am now unable to load any images at all.

[ERC]

Keep trying Nigel. I could only load 5 the other day. Many times if going in and trying to update, I get nowhere. The site stalls or I can't get in again at all.

Your stuff is far too good to NOT be on the site!

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Keep trying Nigel. I could only load 5 the other day. Many times if going in and trying to update, I get nowhere. The site stalls or I can't get in again at all.

Your stuff is far too good to NOT be on the site!

I have been trying Ray, but it just seems to get worse and worse................. am getting to the stage where I'm not sure I can be bothered.

[ERC]

I'm struggling to upload one particular pic. Size is correct and so on, as I use a 'resizer' programme, but it just won't upload. Strange.

[Milan Fistonic]

Sometimes when I upload a photo it doesn't show up in the Insert inline box, but if you click on the box and then on the Done box the image does appear on the post.

[khyndart in CA]

I like to use the "Microsoft Office 2010: photo program to input my photos.
Under the Edit button I crop and enhance under the Auto-correct button, I compress under the Document button and then Save it.
I then wait for the Yellow auto-save light to flash on and off before moving to the next photo.
I have tried other photo programs but this one is my preference.


Ken H

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[Bruce302]

Great shots as always, Thank you Nigel.

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[Roger Dowding]

Good to see the Donn White - ex Donn White, back to Donn White 1973 Bathurst Clubman.

Thanks for the posting - welcome back.

[nigel watts]

Cheers Roger.

I haven't been going to many events over the last couple of years hence the lack of posts.

I was at the Historic GP on Sunday and took quite a few photos so now I've got stuff to post again.

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[ERC]

Great stuff Nigel. I would have liked to have gone, but couldn't make it. I still think the E Type with faired in headlights is still the best looking of all of them.

[khyndart in CA]

Nigel
I was at Taupo on Saturday and was hoping to see you
3 years is too long a gap between friends.
I really enjoy your photography.
Cheers
Ken H.

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Thanks Ray. Yes the early E's with faired lights are my favourite too.

Sorry I missed you Ken. I didn't go on Saturday as I usually do. Just as well because I understand that it was stinking hot.

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[Roger Dowding]

Nigel
I was at Taupo on Saturday and was hoping to see you
3 years is too long a gap between friends.
I really enjoy your photography.
Cheers
Ken H.

Ken H,

So glad you made it.
I didn't as in Auckland on family duties and my wife caught Covid .. grr ...
So stuck at home and testing .. Ok so far but ??? in the next few days..

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[Roger Dowding]

Nigel, great to see B and W photos.

The first photo Post #1833 with the Chev " Pits " indeed, with the appropriate Pit Stop for the drivers too !! - Portaloo, a few !!.

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[Roger Dowding]

Nigel,thanks for the Bike photos.. " jellywrestler " a.k.a. " Spdya " as in Graeme "Spyda " Staples was the dulcet tones on the microphone at the event .. as mentioned on the forum recently ..
Spyda and my Nephew were racing in Sidecars back in the 1980's .. Spyda was a driver and my Nephew Matt Deverall was the swinger for Andrew Scrivener ...

[Oldfart]

Nigel, could you please do some of us with slower connections a favour please? If you restrict the number of photos in each post to about 4 or 5 we can get to see them, otherwise it stalls the site. Ray had to do the same and all is well with his. I don't want to miss any of your great photos :)

[ERC]

Agree. It often stalls for me too.

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[ERC]

Thanks Nigel. Great pics as always.

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[Roger Dowding]

Nigel, Unusual Hardtop on the Datsun 2000 / Fairlady in the background. interesting shape that I have seen on an MGB at some stage !!.

Nice Cobra too !!

[Milan Fistonic]

I visited there around that time.

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[Roger Dowding]

Nigel,
- thanks for the photos.
- .HL3000 the Ross Cammick 1959 3000 two seater that was raced at Pukekohe in the Gold Leaf 3 Hour Challenge Race in 1965 by Bill Dunster .. Ross has had the car since mid 1970's bought after it was crashed and repaired,then Ross did a compete rebuild - hardly ever seen it with the Hard Top on.

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[ERC]

Drat. I missed the Ferraris! Great pics as usual.

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[Roger Dowding]

GM 2 Chrysler 3, great photos Mr Watts. my son is a Mopar man so will love the bottom 3 in the set.
oops just realised No 3 is a Ford - Mercury Comet, should have gone to Specsavers !!

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[ERC]

Great stuff as always Nigel.

The Aston ARQ 776 DB7 is an i6 - ex Dubai. Despite the number of DB7's produced, there aren't that many i6's in NZ. Two, maybe 3 in Christchurch, 1 in Cambridge and not many known in Auckland. Maybe 3?

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Does anyone else get this stuff happening??

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[Roger Dowding]

Does anyone else get this stuff happening??

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Nigel, I get that a lot on my new laptop .. the site is only " http " not " https " .. At least it is up and running if with a few glitches..

Cheers
Roger,

Maybe it is a Tauranga thing !!!

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[ERC]

Great panning Nigel!

Series numbers have slipped and a lot of guys have now retired from racing, citing the increased costs, tougher regulations, old age and also the loss of Pukekohe as an alternative local track. NZ's largest city and no race track.

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