Pete Geoghegan's Porsche Sports Sedan At Bay Park NZ

[Steve Holmes]

Can someone please help with dates for these two photos? This is a request from Jim Barclay, of the New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing.

Pete Geoghegan raced his Porsche (owned by Laurie O'Neil from memory) at Bay Park on two occasions, once in its earlier Grace Bros livery, then in its Craven Mild livery.

Can anyone provide dates for when these images were taken?

Was this actually two different cars raced by Pete, or the same one in different colours?

Thanks in advance.

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[fullnoise68]

In Aussie he raced a 911 in 1974 and a 911S in 1976, so that may narrow it down Steve.

[khyndart in CA]

Steve,
the photo image states ;29 December 1974, Bay Park, Graham Rendell photo.
Would one of those be correct or that too easy?

Cheers, Ken Hyndman.
(p.s. I thought you might have retired by now and become a sand castle and bikini competition judge.
Hope all is well. )

[Bruce302]

The top one looks to be RHD and the other LHD. Two different cars ?

[aussiemonza]

The first car was owned by Reg Mort, super lightweight and also raced by John Harvey and I think once or twice, by Leo as well. The second car was the Laurex Waste car that was built up for Lawrie O'Neill. I beleive Reg still has the car though it did have a hard hit against the wall at AIR when a rear wheel collapsed with Harvey on board. Peter Fitzgerald later bought the Laurex car for the ASCC, not sure where it is now.

[khyndart in CA]

I found this photo which may help with the date.

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[Shoreboy57]

I found this photo which may help with the date.

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(Ken Hyndman )

These two put on a great show at Manfeild.

[seaqnmac27]

From the 10 January 1975 MotorAction

The third Aussie combination was 'Pete' Geoghegan, back again, but unfortunately not in his new Monaro as it had just been finished and he felt it wasn't really fair to run it untried in New Zealand. Instead, he brought over the Porsche his brother Leo drove in Aussie saloon races, this being the car that Jim Palmer once owned and raced here, although it has been drastically altered since then.
The Grace Bros-Levis car was painted yellow, is right hand drive and is now owned by Reg Moore. Contrary to what most people thought, the motor is actually smaller than that in the Craven Mild Porsche Pete raced here before, being 2.8 litres and runs on carburettors. However, the motor is possibly more powerful and the car 300lbs lighter, so the Grace Bros car is faster.
Pete hadn't driven this car before, and an oil leak problem in practice meant he did very few laps, and wasn't given an official time from what we could see.

This was also the first meet for the Halliday Capri. That then would mean the Craven Mild/B&H was in NZ either the end of 73 or beginning 74 and the Grace Bros pic is from end December 74.

[Steve Holmes]

This is great info everyone, thanks for your replies. The image of Geoghegan and Fahey at Bay Park must be from the 1974/75 season, as Fahey only ran that colour in the Capris second season. So does this mean the Grace Bros car visited after this?