She was a great class in it's day, wanted early pics from start to now, there has been some cool cars over the years
She was a great class in it's day, wanted early pics from start to now, there has been some cool cars over the years
Your right Paul,it was a great class.Attachment 23896Attachment 23897Attachment 23898Attachment 23899Attachment 23900
This is my car the way I bought it off Pete Collins.Attachment 23901
And after I painted it.Attachment 23902
Thanks for the pix lindsay, good ol cars here,anglia no 25 is dave lovegrove, who went on to work in f1,59 is jon palmer in the chev, pete collins in the white vauxhall, no 4 anglia is nigel barclay, who worked for paul morris,29 is doug harvey, no 40 wayne austin
Hi guys I've just joined, I currently race in pre65 in the South Island still great racing nowadays.
I've been around the club since I was born im 20 now and have watched my father race in pre 65 for nearly all those years.
He raced a PB Vauxhall which he raced from 1994-2006 before buying an XP falcon of Dave Mitchell.
Also last time I heard Lindsay had the car.
Hi dan, you may not know me, but I know you, im the commentater at levels, and pre 65s is pretty close to my heart, as I raced for 3 seasons as a 15 year old through to 18 year old in the ha vauxhall viva.still trying to upload some pics I have on to trs, but havin a few difficulties.
Your dad is a bit of a legend in pre65s, been round along time, I think I presented a trophy to you last season, I think???.for best performance.welcome to trs, I have been pushing it at levels, as its such a great site.
welcome aboard my friend, catch up with you next time at levels
paul lancaster
Yes i do Paul but it hasn't gone since I blew the motor at Levels in probably 1990 or maybe 91.I had just bought a farm and deciced to get on my feet with the farm before I went back racing.There were a few interested in buying it at the time and in hindsight I should have sold it as I never did get back into it.
Also in the photos above Jim Little is in the black Valiant and I think its Robin Laing in the Falcon.
And the Chev could have been Jon Palmer or Paul Roffey as they were in partnersip with the car and one year one would do the normal races and the other would do the reverse grid races and the next year vise versa
Ok not early Pre 65 photos these taken on the weekend. . Attachment 24399Attachment 24400Attachment 24401Attachment 24402Attachment 24403
Love the 28D Austin! Fair bit of internal scaffolding there. Great pics.
I haven't watched pre 65's for ages but a great class.
Morris actually ERC..........the ex Fogg yellow peril still going for it!!!!!!
And look at the variety........great stuff, great racing.
Yes, great class Gerald and still going strong after what! 30 years? isn't it!! a few mates racing in pre 65 tried to push me into years ago but I didn't like the way the cars where "chopped up" and weren't more than basic body shells, still I do like they way they've keep control of the period look. Probably my all time favourite old car class in NZ.
Dale M
I quite enjoy watching the Pre 65's racing nowadays... this is a shot I got at Puke, I think it exemplifies the racing nicely:
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Is this the car Gerald ?? Saw Angus race it at Puke a few years ago now and he was passing cars around the outside over Mobil onto the pit straight. He told me that it was a great car to have some fun in.
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Thats it kiwi285. Hope it has gone to a good home!!!! Despite its looks it was really quite a sophisticated race car. It damn well should have been for what it cost John Lamont to build, but as he said he didn't want 'just another bloody Anglia'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LoL.
Thanks AMCO. I didn't know it was THAT car! Some good YouTube stuff as I remember, dicing in the South Island.
Here are some photos taken at the December 08 Puke meeting.
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Don't you just love the 'colourfulness' of pre65.........nothing dull or boring here.
Yep great class for sure spent a few years there thru the mud , dirt & sun shine....& Amco with yr son we shared some good times ........ great guys & gals......racing was fast & furious.. [& still is ].....I have a few piks of all over NZ circuts but my pc wont do it so sent to Steve , as time goes some will show up ...
However there are some good piks on pre 65 site nz from dot one
Yep great class for sure spent a few years there thru the mud , dirt & sun shine....& Amco with yr son we shared some good times ........ great guys & gals......racing was fast & furious.. [& still is ].....I have a few piks of all over NZ circuts but my pc wont do it so sent to Steve , as time goes some will show up ...
However there are some good piks on pre 65 site nz from dot one
Here are a few more from the same meeting. They were great cars and brought back memories for me of the cars that raced in the 60's
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These were taken at Taupo last year - some different cars there that I hadn't seen before.
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Not sure that the Datsun Sunny was in the pre 65 class but I think it is a fantastic looking car and it goes like the proverbial off the shovel.
The Datsun is not a Pre 65 with the B110 coming about in 1970 - even the first sunny the B10 was 1966-69. Now a bluebird 410/411 would be Pre65 as these models were 1963-67. I believe the 410/411 was the first Nissan/Datsun to be assembled here in NZ
Love watching the youtube in car from the Rush IMP aka 77.
Hey guys, such good stuff, and ADO13, read Austin / Morris 1300, versus a 57 Chevvy and everything in between, mind you the Fogg was always a quick Mini FWD driver
ADO13 was the Austin Healey Sprite, 1300 was ADO16 ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgamated_Drawing_Office :p (where's the uber geek icon on this forum? :D )
I have to say it again......just love the paint jobs on those pre65 machines........a lot of lateral thinking there.
I think this class might still just have the best RACING in NZ. Yes I mean racing, not 'follow ma' leader stuff'. Wonderful!
Yes I agree AMCO - where else can you see such a variety of cars, colour schemes and racing that has stood the test of time. Great to see different cars there - not just an Anglebox or Cortina grid.
Beats Tier 1 any day. Great field, great variety too.
Just a query but I presume these are not covered by a CoD, or are they?
Managed to catch up with Grant Sprague today and we had a great chat about historic motorsport. I'm sure it won't be the last. He gave me these two photos to post onto the Pre65 thread.
The Mustang photos was taken at Ruapuna in 1999 and was during the North/South challenge. This car won the championship too
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The photo of the Anglia shows his championship winning car. Also in the photo are Roly Levis and Kerry Grant. This was one of at least two Anglias that Grant built up and raced.
http://i57.tinypic.com/243p7rn.jpg
Grant won 2 New Zealand and 4 North Island championships with these two cars.
Grant also thinks that the blue and white Anglia behind the red Cortina in photos 3 of post #31 is his old white car.