Baypark ; lost tracks - Australian Muscle Car issue 83

[Roger Dowding]

Australian Muscle Car latest issue No 83, out this week in Australia, watch out for it.

[Growler]

Australian Muscle Car latest issue No 83, out this week in Australia, watch out for it.
Expect it around 2 weeks later in NZ...

[Steve Holmes]

Article says Bay Park closed in 1993, and that Peter Hanna died one year later. I thought the track closed a few years later than 1993?

[Spgeti]

I have a copy of the programme for the Final Meeting. 1965 - 1995, 30 years. Practice day Sat 15th April and Race Day 16th April.

[Kiwiboss]

Article says Bay Park closed in 1993, and that Peter Hanna died one year later. I thought the track closed a few years later than 1993?

Read it in Australia the other week, I thought the article was poorly written with incorrect facts, still, it was great to see an article was done on what is now a "Ghost Track" as someone 30 years old today would barely remember it.

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks for that you guys, I'm glad it wasn't just me.

[stubuchanan]

Thanks for that you guys, I'm glad it wasn't just me.

Likewise.
I wasn't expecting to find "Australian Muscle Car" anywhere in the West or Northwest of Auckland, but found one in a superette at Hobsonville. It took only a couple of minutes to flick through the 2 pages of the article - it was a distinct disappointment.

A mutual friend had given me a dozen or so earlier issues and there were some very interesting articles on "Circuits of the Past" - Orange/Gnoo Blas, Amaroo Park, Catalina, Calder Thunderdrome, and a street circuit at Toowoomba(where a Falcon raced for the first time ever). I have since passed these on, but I kept one which had a fascinating story called "The Great Ruse" about the origins of Mt Panorama, and the correspondence between the Mayor of Bathurst and the NSW Minister of Works about the "tourist road" over the Bald Hills (renamed Mt Panorama) when everybody in the area knew it was to be a motor race circuit.


Against this background the Bay Park story was a complete let-down. Perhaps we should nominate a volunteer to write the proper story for them.

Stu Buchanan

[Oldfart]

So if the article about Baypark is so wrong, can you trust any of the others to be any more factual? That is the problem with historical stuff, somewhere down the line total inaccuracy becomes the "fact".

[Roger Dowding]

So if the article about Baypark is so wrong, can you trust any of the others to be any more factual? That is the problem with historical stuff, somewhere down the line total inaccuracy becomes the "fact".

Oldfart, I have the same view, have enjoyed other " Lost Tracks " articles, mainly Australian, but how much research went in them ?? , would imagine there is better information around - feel a letter to the editor is required as I posted the thread.
I went to Baypark but only in the early years 1967 to around 1973 and only probably 3 or 4 times, so

[Cooper997]

From what I have noticed, quite a few of AMC Sacred Sites features have the advantage of relying heavily on features written years earlier for the now defunct 'Motor Racing Australia' magazine published by Chevron Publishing also.

Certainly worth contacting Luke West via his amceditoral@chevron.com.au or you'll find an Australian Muscle Car magazine Facebook page if that's your thing.

Now that they are publishing a magazine every 6 weeks instead of bi-monthly they clearly need more material. But maybe the facts aren't being so well researched.

Stephen

[Terry S]

From what I have noticed, quite a few of AMC Sacred Sites features have the advantage of relying heavily on features written years earlier for the now defunct 'Motor Racing Australia' magazine published by Chevron Publishing also.

Certainly worth contacting Luke West via his amceditoral@chevron.com.au or you'll find an Australian Muscle Car magazine Facebook page if that's your thing.

Now that they are publishing a magazine every 6 weeks instead of bi-monthly they clearly need more material. But maybe the facts aren't being so well researched.

Stephen

Stephen, where did you pick up that AMC was to be every 6 weeks?

I was suspicious earlier this year when they dropped the months of the issue, now just have the issue number.

I am disappointed by the change as I don't believe there is enough material to sustain it at that rate. I feel the standard will fall greatly.

Strange that there has been no communication to subscribers.

[Cooper997]

Terry, issue 72 from Feb 14 is the beginning of the 6 week cycle. I didn't notice immediately, but by early June 14 issue 74 was out and I realised something was going on. I don't know officially but I suspect that monthly Muscle Car Enthuiast magazine must have thrown up some competition.

I think there's a decent amount of history still to be told. Take the Brian Michelmore feature in the current issue. It's when every other issue becomes repetition of Brock, Moffat and Johnson material that you know they've lost it.

Stephen

[Roger Dowding]

From what I have noticed, quite a few of AMC Sacred Sites features have the advantage of relying heavily on features written years earlier for the now defunct 'Motor Racing Australia' magazine published by Chevron Publishing also.

Certainly worth contacting Luke West via his amceditoral@chevron.com.au or you'll find an Australian Muscle Car magazine Facebook page if that's your thing.

Now that they are publishing a magazine every 6 weeks instead of bi-monthly they clearly need more material. But maybe the facts aren't being so well researched.

Stephen

Stephen [ Cooper 997 ], on rereading the article see it was written by Sandy Myhre, who wrote the book ' " 50 Years on Track " - A history of Motorsport in New Zealand, the people, the cars, the stories ', published in 2002, I have a copy. She is described as " an Award - winning journalist who started writing about cars 20 years ago and now considers New Zealand tracks a second home ".
Vaguely recollect that the book did not get great reviews, must now re-read it though as must have some good stories in it.
On page 107 is a Picture of Peter Hanna, with the title -
" The final flag, Peter Hanna at the end of Bay Park's last day - NZ Herald photo ".
It has the same information that Easter 1993 was the last meeting and that Peter passed away 18 months later on 13 December 1994. whereas information posted above shows last meeting in 1995 and Peter passed away 13 December 1998.

So incorrect information has been around for 13 years if not longer.

[John McKechnie]

Those of us that raced at the last meeting have it written in our log books- end of story.

[Rod Grimwood]

Those of us that raced at the last meeting have it written in our log books- end of story.

and it was a great story, Bay Park it was the place of pace. Always a good time there.

[John McKechnie]

I sometimes wonder, do people feel the same about the loss of Levin the way we feel about Baypark- your take Grimmie ?

[Cooper997]

Stephen [ Cooper 997 ], on rereading the article see it was written by Sandy Myhre, who wrote the book ' " 50 Years on Track " - A history of Motorsport in New Zealand, the people, the cars, the stories ', published in 2002, I have a copy. She is described as " an Award - winning journalist who started writing about cars 20 years ago and now considers New Zealand tracks a second home ".
Vaguely recollect that the book did not get great reviews, must now re-read it though as must have some good stories in it.
On page 107 is a Picture of Peter Hanna, with the title -
" The final flag, Peter Hanna at the end of Bay Park's last day - NZ Herald photo ".
It has the same information that Easter 1993 was the last meeting and that Peter passed away 18 months later on 13 December 1994. whereas information posted above shows last meeting in 1995 and Peter passed away 13 December 1998.

So incorrect information has been around for 13 years if not longer.

Roger, your information makes it very much a case of either Sandy not looking for new information or whether AMC used her information from the book with due credit. Regardless, you guys who raced at the last meeting and indeed show proof with the programme cover above deserve the record to be corrected in a future issue.

If AMC decide to run more NZ Sacred Sires features, hopefully they get them right or visit TRS and ask you guys before going to print.

Stephen

[khyndart in CA]

This thread would have covered all they needed to know. What Ross states in the last post is how I remember Bay Park !

http://www.theroaringseason.com/showthread.php?1763-This-Weekend-20-Years-Ago-what-were-you-doing/page2&highlight=baypark

Heaps of fun memories at the track plus the sand dunes were just across the road !

(Ken Hyndman )

[Shoreboy57]

I sometimes wonder, do people feel the same about the loss of Levin the way we feel about Baypark- your take Grimmie ?

I can't speak for competitors John, but from a fan's perspective the loss of Levin was more than compensated for by the birth of Manfeild which, at the time, set a new standard on so many levels (apart from the weather!).

[Roger Dowding]

Roger, your information makes it very much a case of either Sandy not looking for new information or whether AMC used her information from the book with due credit. Regardless, you guys who raced at the last meeting and indeed show proof with the programme cover above deserve the record to be corrected in a future issue.

If AMC decide to run more NZ Sacred Sires features, hopefully they get them right or visit TRS and ask you guys before going to print.

Stephen

Stephen, have reread both the article and the chapter in Sandy Myhre's book " 50 Years on Track ",
- the chapter is entitled " Mr Bay Park ", It is obvious the article was just a cut and paste from the Book, with no checking of information.
I am writing to Luke West, including copies of the clippings that have featured on TRS, from the local paper Bay of Plenty Times, and the copy of the final race programme and the cover of Peter Hanna's funeral leaflet.
Will keep the forum posted on any developments.
Thanks to Ken Hyndman, Kiwiboss, and others for the pictures / copies, You are acknowledged on the copies as providing the material.
cheers

Roger
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[Cooper997]

Roger, if all it is a cut and paste effort, then their card needs to be marked 'Could do better'. So indeed point it out.

It is of course another classic scenario whereby once something goes into print then other facts emerge.

And not that I wish to sound too critical, it could also be put down to the Mark Oastler era of AMC is a hard act to follow.

Stephen

[Roger Dowding]

Roger, if all it is a cut and paste effort, then their card needs to be marked 'Could do better'. So indeed point it out.

It is of course another classic scenario whereby once something goes into print then other facts emerge.

And not that I wish to sound too critical, it could also be put down to the Mark Oastler era of AMC is a hard act to follow.

Stephen

Stephen, just heard back from Luke West and a correction is coming, mainly about the closing era, final meeting and Peter Hanna's passing, he was apologetic, Watch the next issue if in time..otherwise the following one # 85..
cheers

Roger

[John McKechnie]

Talking of passing on- Uncle Jack (Nazer) dropped in today, while talking he mentioned the recent passing on of Mark Jennings.
Mark had the Cylinder Head Engineering shop in Newton, also built up the racing Topolino V8.
It all went wrong for him on a quad bike.

[Cooper997]

Good news Roger.

[Roger Dowding]

Likewise.
I wasn't expecting to find "Australian Muscle Car" anywhere in the West or Northwest of Auckland, but found one in a superette at Hobsonville. It took only a couple of minutes to flick through the 2 pages of the article - it was a distinct disappointment.

A mutual friend had given me a dozen or so earlier issues and there were some very interesting articles on "Circuits of the Past" - Orange/Gnoo Blas, Amaroo Park, Catalina, Calder Thunderdrome, and a street circuit at Toowoomba(where a Falcon raced for the first time ever). I have since passed these on, but I kept one which had a fascinating story called "The Great Ruse" about the origins of Mt Panorama, and the correspondence between the Mayor of Bathurst and the NSW Minister of Works about the "tourist road" over the Bald Hills (renamed Mt Panorama) when everybody in the area knew it was to be a motor race circuit.


Against this background the Bay Park story was a complete let-down. Perhaps we should nominate a volunteer to write the proper story for them.

Stu Buchanan

Stu,
been in touch with Luke West, at Chevron Publishing, and now have his own, E-mail, there will be a correction, and hopefully more research before, saying it in the old way, putting " pen to paper ".
they outsourced the article !!
cheers

Roger

[Roger Dowding]

There is a letter from Mike John - of Targa fame - organiser supreme, and an apology from " the Editor " Luke West, presumably, I will scan and post the page as it shows some of the TRS post info,
The last Programme, The Peter Hanna Funeral - front page of the service note, and a couple of photos small but there.

Thanks to those who provided the images.

[Roger Dowding]

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[woody]

I bought the souvenir programme last week from the second hand bookshop in Devonport. There was a second programme for sale. Shop is called BookMark.

[Roger Dowding]

Australian Muscle Car latest issue No 83, out this week in Australia, watch out for it.

Not trying to help sell the magazine, but an article of Tracks that didn't happen : A half page on the attempt to runs the V8* Supercars around Victoria Park and up to the Casino / Sky City..

[Roger Dowding]

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Here is the article, remember having a huge argument with a Mate who worked at Auckland City Council at the time.
I didn't like it, being a Pukekohe supporter and even a driver at the track many years before.
I think that the Harbour Bridge access was the main issue as the Victoria park viaduct took the traffic North and South, no tunnel back then for one way running underneath.
Here is the article ;

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Thought I would save you guys having to buy it,** seems to be less of a magazine these days, and from reading the letters to the editor, full of errors, so the Baypark article is just one of many that were incorrect

** Ken H, no chance unless you subscribe !!, and I forgot Happy New Year to you and all the US based TRS followers, and others of course.

[Milan Fistonic]

Here are some shots from the final Bay Park meeting on April 16 1995.

A couple of Aztec cars

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Kieran Wills Mazda RX8

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Andrew Bowler Nissan Coupe

[Milan Fistonic]

More from Bay Park

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Wayne Huxford Capri V8

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Tim LaTrobe Mercedes Benz 280E

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Ron Salter Volvo White Aero

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[Steve Holmes]

Wow, great shots Milan. You can see the encroaching houses in the background.

[khyndart in CA]

More from Bay Park

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Wayne Huxford Capri V8

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Tim LaTrobe Mercedes Benz 280E

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Ron Salter Volvo White Aero

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Confucius said; " Man who build close to race track bound to hear lots of noise"
We were there first.
Spinner Black's Camaro at Bay Park in 1969. (No houses in sight )
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(Ken Hyndman photo )

Confucius also says : "Woman who fly aeroplane upside down bound to have crack up !"

[Roger Dowding]

Confucius also says, Confucius - werry wise man ..

[khyndart in CA]

December 1975.
Baypark F5000 field about to start a race. Back in the good old days !
(I know some one will accurately name the field in the correct order..thanks )

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(Ken Hyndman photo )

[275 GTB]

Likewise.
I wasn't expecting to find "Australian Muscle Car" anywhere in the West or Northwest of Auckland, but found one in a superette at Hobsonville. It took only a couple of minutes to flick through the 2 pages of the article - it was a distinct disappointment.

A mutual friend had given me a dozen or so earlier issues and there were some very interesting articles on "Circuits of the Past" - Orange/Gnoo Blas, Amaroo Park, Catalina, Calder Thunderdrome, and a street circuit at Toowoomba(where a Falcon raced for the first time ever). I have since passed these on, but I kept one which had a fascinating story called "The Great Ruse" about the origins of Mt Panorama, and the correspondence between the Mayor of Bathurst and the NSW Minister of Works about the "tourist road" over the Bald Hills (renamed Mt Panorama) when everybody in the area knew it was to be a motor race circuit.


Against this background the Bay Park story was a complete let-down. Perhaps we should nominate a volunteer to write the proper story for them.

Stu Buchanan

Stu (and others)...your ref to a road racing circuit in the Woomba got my interest...

Scroll down to 20 Sept 1958 below...

http://www.mgccq.org.au/11Motor%20Sport%20Involvement%20Begins%20to%20Taper.pdf

PS I have been told that the MotoX cct at Echo Valley was a former blacktop circuit as well.

[Roger Dowding]

Stu (and others)...your ref to a road racing circuit in the Woomba got my interest...

Scroll down to 20 Sept 1958 below...

http://www.mgccq.org.au/11Motor%20Sport%20Involvement%20Begins%20to%20Taper.pdf

275GTB, was down your way a week or so ago, stayed at Tallong in the Tallong Park Estate with friends, on the road saw a couple of Vintage cars on Trailers towed by moderns but being followed by a P76 Leyland V8 .. cheers Roger D

P S just clicked on the link a good read, lots of interesting stuff, the Leybourn Sprints question the comment a Jaguar XK120 was in a different category to some Healey's the XK was a Racing Car the Healey's Sports Cars, maybe a capacity thing !! great stuff, thanks

[Roger Dowding]

started this thread as there was an article in AMC magazine about Baypark which had a few " cough " errors, well 6 months and over 4000 views later it has all sorts of good info on it, thanks Guys !!!

[Steve Emson]

December 1975.
Baypark F5000 field about to start a race. Back in the good old days !
(I know some one will accurately name the field in the correct order..thanks )

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(Ken Hyndman photo )

Gee, that really doesn't look like Baypark.

[Steve Emson]

People commenting about tracks. Levin was a drivers track, you needed to be committed to be quick there. Manfield was also a drivers track, and I did drive there at the very first meeting as a school boy which was my 2nd national race meeting, the first being Baypark. Loved the place. I remember the thing you had to learn, the special line through the sweeper were you drove through the first part of the corner without lifting, did you braking in a straight line and then turned right. the fast guys were using this line from day one.

Baypark was unfortunately not on the same list. It was not a drivers track, more a power down horsepower track. A skilled driver could keep you behind by just using the inside line and running you out to the fence. I learnt that the hard way.

All race tracks are a good thing, however they are not created equal. Of course as we lose them we should remember them fondly.

Bring back Levin!

[khyndart in CA]

Steve,
Do these two photos help to show where I was at Baypark in Dec. 1975.
If you look closely at the crowd past the F5000 field you might see a young Grant Sprague drinking beers with his mates, out of sight from his dad !
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(Ken Hyndman photos ) I am still waiting for someone to name the COMPLETE field of 9 or 10 cars for this event. Thanks.

[Roger Dowding]

(Ken Hyndman photos ) I am still waiting for someone to name the COMPLETE field of 9 or 10 cars for this event. Thanks.

Ken is there a prize or do you just get a copy of the picture !! .. cheers Roger D.

[Marty]

Please correct me if I'm wrong. I was 8 in 75 .....

Moffat, Baker, Richards, Nazer, Halliday, Dawson, Fahey, Edmonson, Lancaster, (can't make out next red car),Hart, Blackberry.34533

[khyndart in CA]

Roger,
Your job is to count how many are in the crowd in this photo ! ( I am recycling the "shoebox" )
Thanks for all your inputs.
Baypark Saloon Car event. Dec. 1975
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(Ken Hyndman photo )

[khyndart in CA]

Marty,
Sorry I messed up with the saloon car photo. I have been trying to get the F5000 field named correctly.
You did a good job on what some say was the best salon car line up ever in NZ. Leo Leonard was driving the PDL Mustang that day.
You may have been young then but I took my wife and thought she would enjoy the racing and also being up close to the track.
She slept most of the day and has never been to a race track since !

(Ken H)

[khyndart in CA]

Marty,
These two are for you.
I never get tired of looking at them and I hope you like them also. Same day at Baypark. Just taken from different locations and we went to the front straight stands for the final saloon car event. (She still went to sleep !)
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(Ken Hyndman photos )

[GD66]

Please correct me if I'm wrong. I was 8 in 75 .....

Moffat, Baker, Richards, Nazer, Halliday, Dawson, Fahey, Edmonson, Lancaster, (can't make out next red car),Hart, Blackberry.[




Looking at the lower pic, the obscured red car looks as though it could be Clyde Collins in the Cortina V8 ?

[Marty]

I agree , Collins, Coachman sponsored Cortina, also in this one is Brent Bullivant and Bill Leckie.

No idea on the white car with black stripe.

[khyndart in CA]

" I am still waiting for someone to name the COMPLETE field of 9 or 10 cars for this event. Thanks."


You have all let me down and not helped me at all with my question on the F 5000 field.

Graeme Lawrence leading Jim Murdoch in his Begg 018, Baron Robertson in his Elfin MR5 alongside Ken Smith in his Lola 332.
Further back are Frank Radisich in a March 722, Robbie Booth in his Katipo M70, Ross Calgher in a McLaren M4, Peter Hughes in a Brabham Fiat BT 29 and Bill David in a Begg Chev FM5.

So how did I do ?


(Ken Hyndman )

[spinner32]

I agree , Collins, Coachman sponsored Cortina, also in this one is Brent Bullivant and Bill Leckie.

No idea on the white car with black stripe.

I think that you will find that it is Bruce Bellis in the ex Collins Cortina. As Bruce owned the Coachman Steakhouse it seems likely. Bruce converted the car from the 4 headlight GT grill that Clyde had fitted to the square headlight grill. He also changed the car from Ford to Chev power
The Mk 1 Cortina is a chap Wall from Taupo if I recall correctly. It had 351 power

[Rod Grimwood]

White with purple stripe (looks black in photo) would be Alan Woolf I think.

[TonyG]

White with purple stripe (looks black in photo) would be Alan Woolf I think.

Agree with you Rod - Allan Woolf. Def Escort not Cortina Sponsored by Mac Mufflers. Won the class championship with it if I remember correctly.

[khyndart in CA]

Does this photo clarify anything ? Look closely at the wide side stripes compared to the Woolf Escort.
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The old MkI Cortina is that of Peter Wall, and running a 351 V8.

Check this Roaring Season thread.
http://www.theroaringseason.com/showthread.php?822-1975-Bay-Park-Big-Bangers&highlight=Baypark+1975

I was there that day taking my photos from the back of the white Bedford tow truck with the blue roof in this photo. (I can almost see me ! )

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(Ken Hyndman )

[Grant Sprague]

Very cool photos mate thank you

[Ost]

Baypark was always special to me, my Aunt and Uncle owned the adjacent campground for a few years.

[SPman]

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The old MkI Cortina is that of Peter Wall, and running a 351 V8.

(Ken Hyndman )
Aah - not our old 2 door Cortina (CE6670)

[GD66]

Baypark was always special to me, my Aunt and Uncle owned the adjacent campground for a few years.


A summer goldmine ! I've had a couple of big Christmas hols Saturday nights in there, Bay Park provided a great boost for all sorts of associated businesses, including some tacky evening sessions at Willow Park...:cool:

[TonyG]

Does this photo clarify anything ? Look closely at the wide side stripes compared to the Woolf Escort.
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The old MkI Cortina is that of Peter Wall, and running a 351 V8.

Check this Roaring Season thread.
http://www.theroaringseason.com/showthread.php?822-1975-Bay-Park-Big-Bangers&highlight=Baypark+1975

I was there that day taking my photos from the back of the white Bedford tow truck with the blue roof in this photo. (I can almost see me ! )

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(Ken Hyndman )

You are indeed correct about the stripes being the difference. The shot in post 44 shows the Woolf car with narrow stripes above wheel arch at extreme left next to the Hart Escort however the car in the 2nd shot in post 47 is not the Woolf Escort as can be seen by the wider stripes right down the guards. I wrongly assumed that the Escort had fallen behind the Hart car as it is no longer in the picture - I wonder where it went as the rest of the field appears to still be holding station as per the shot in post 44. Different heat as Nazer Victor is further back on grid. My bad!

[Grant Sprague]

Roger,
Your job is to count how many are in the crowd in this photo ! ( I am recycling the "shoebox" )
Thanks for all your inputs.
Baypark Saloon Car event. Dec. 1975
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(Ken Hyndman photo )

This is a god pik of a Tauranga car club icon Keith Madgwick [spelling sir name] The little guy on the right, he helped Peter Hanna often in the time keepers box , also helped with the local club events , sadly Keith past away a few years ago , he had some very cool cars ..........

[khyndart in CA]

I was at Baypark in Dec. 1975.
If you look closely at the crowd past the F5000 field you might see a young Grant Sprague drinking beers with his mates, out of sight from his dad !


Grant,
You never replied to this photo. Was I right or wrong ?

Is that the same Keith who had a beautiful light blue Mini Cooper that drove past Summit Service Station after 5 pm each work day ?

(Ken H)

[John McKechnie]

Ken- I had an original light blue Mini Cooper in 1990, it had a white roof......could this be the same one?

[Kevin Hirst]

I was at Baypark in Dec. 1975.
If you look closely at the crowd past the F5000 field you might see a young Grant Sprague drinking beers with his mates, out of sight from his dad !


Grant,
You never replied to this photo. Was I right or wrong ?

Is that the same Keith who had a beautiful light blue Mini Cooper that drove past Summit Service Station after 5 pm each work day ?

(Ken H)

Keith was a very active member of the TVCC way back, always had nice cooper S gave it heaps too.

[Grant Sprague]

Yes replied ..... but did not show up ... will try & repost Ken tomorrow ....thanks mate

[Grant Sprague]

I was at Baypark in Dec. 1975.
If you look closely at the crowd past the F5000 field you might see a young Grant Sprague drinking beers with his mates, out of sight from his dad !


Grant,
You never replied to this photo. Was I right or wrong ?

Is that the same Keith who had a beautiful light blue Mini Cooper that drove past Summit Service Station after 5 pm each work day ?

(Ken H)Yes , oddly enough I was at B / Park that year I was up from Timaru racing in GTX...... I had heard lots about Bay Park & Mr Peter Hanna..... was a warm weekend I think it was the finals for the season , little did I know about 6 yrs later I was to move to Tauranga not only because of the weather & B/Park but to be with my big brother , Gary had a car yard with a beaut work shop on the site , Gary taught me a few things but before I could get my own licence Gary moved to the Gold Coast , I had learnt enough by this time sold my little hunts home unit & cars & got my licence, Roly Levis bought Gary's car yard so I moved into one about 3 k,s down to wards town .... a bit long winded lol..... Tauranga was a great place to live but is becoming a little like Auckland , we live in the country & takes about 15 to 20 mins to get to the city so its not that bad ..PS re Keith , I would think is was for sure he had an Austin Healey 3000 as well.

[Roger Dowding]

Australian " Auto Action " has just ceased publishing after 45 years, the publication name has been sold to a big group, but no indication that it will survive, started going backwards when the stopped putting the weekend results in and published on a Thursday, to being on the shelf on a Monday, with nothing of the recent racing.
Interesting at the time it started Motorman had been going for a number of years, Allan Dick's " Auto News " was around, the NZ Hot Rod magazine the longest running Automotive magazine, apart from the AA members only publication had been going since the 1960's [ correct me here !! could be a bit wrong there.

Here is the front page, I haven't read much of it yet !!. Couldn't scan as reduced so in two parts .. overlaps, sorry.

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[Roger Dowding]

Auto Action which was sold and ceased publishing with issue # 1688 in May 2016, has returned, new publishers, new / old format, fortnightly and with Race Results, just got the latest issue. July 21 - August 3. #1689
The Cover - must get a larger capacity scanner this only does A4, didn't think of it when I shelled out the Dollars ..
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Letters and the Editors comments about resuming publication, Hope they go well.

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[Roger Dowding]

Australian Muscle Car latest issue No 83, out this week in Australia, watch out for it.

And now the lost magazine has returned Auto Action is back see Post #67

[Roger Dowding]

AMC issue 89 is out now..

from the back page ;, Oran Park did it in 1986, Pukekohe did it in 1966..

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[Roger Dowding]

Latest issue of AMC #90 is out and an article about the success of Chrysler Valiants and Chargers in NZ, ..

copied here, only 3 pages..
plus the top photo.. L Leonard .. the best !!.
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the article.. hope it is cropped correctly .. bloody scanners !! .

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If it does not look good, either buy the mag or let me know, and will try again.. Big day and had a couple of Moosehead Lagers tonight, from Canada, available in Brisbane, first time since about 1990 .. as they say " Hang Loose with the Moose " .. head Lager ..

cheers

Roger