Results from the August 18, 1968 Club Circuit meeting at Pukekohe.
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Results from the August 18, 1968 Club Circuit meeting at Pukekohe.
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Leo Leonard and Ernie Sprague won in 1969. Brent Hawes ( business partner as well as driver to Leo) was tragically killed at Ruapuna in a sports car race in early 1969.
Thanks to Steve Sharp for this grid photo.
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- Milan Fistonic for the entry list and handwritten results
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Milan noted about the entry of Jim Boyd " You might have noticed in the entry list I posted that Jim Boyd is listed as driving the Lycoming (22) and a Cooper Climax (39) and both cars are shown on the grid. The reason apparently was that Jim sold the Cooper, just prior to the meeting, to Grant Bloore. "
The meeting was known for the Accidents and some of the first photos on this thread are of Ron Brown - before and after shots of his car and the accident in the Esses - between Rothmans and the Hairpin.
Some comments on the event ;
Glen Ducey wrote " Must have been a little daunting whistling down the back towards the 90deg Railway with no evidence of any form of escape road !
Bruce Blacklock wrote " With the co-operation of the owners of the land the fence was removed for the weekend and the ground graded to provide a run off area. "
Alan Boyle : about the track " It is interesting that that meeting was run as an experiment suggested by non other than the late Jim Clark. He was worried that in a tangle a car could be sent up the earth face of the banking and into the hill stand. i recall the out cry over the lack of a run off at Railway Corner, which was resolved for the day but there was no real concern about the right turn at the Elbow, where the racing club track railings were. "
Alan Boyle [ Ron Browns best Mate and Team Mate when they both ran Mini's ] " We were lucky that our great friend Ron didn't suffer severe injury or worse when he took out the steel hawser cable fence off the top of Rothmans hill. "
A photo from a Magazine about the incident [ posted before ]..
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Rons Car before -Ron getting in - or out ?
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and after - loading onto the trailer -
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The lady Anna Rowland with blond hair beside the car drivers door - worked with Ron at Dominion Motors in the 1960's and was a friend of Alan [ Boyle ] and Ron [ Brown ] for many years - Anna was my neighbour growing up in Herne Bay in the 1950's, Anna passed away a year or so ago. Her family and ours remained friends over all the years- I last saw Anna's Mother at my uncle Ed [ Eddie from NSCC 1919 - 2018 ] and Aunty' Una [ 1920 and still with us ] 60th Wedding Anniversary in 2002.
Before my time there - that was late 1965 [the B and H race - on - although did watch the B and H for a while outside the track in 1964 with my father - story told before !!
This the results from that First Pukekohe Grand Prix.. Graham Woods archives.
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Small field finished the race,which apparently made it quite boring as opposed the the exciting Ardmore GP the year before when Sir [ then just Mr ] Stirling Moss won in the rain.
Pukekohe in the trackside paddock area by the Stands and near the Wooden Tote building.
Mike Feisst picture
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a couple of recent photos by the current owner - and rebuilder Kent Larsen - and yes the " Big Wing " is going back on.
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Holes in the rear hatch screen ready for the Wing ..
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looks like they missed the holes with the wing installation in the first picture.
Alan's Coca Cola sponsored Vauxhall Viva ; First outing was the 1971 GP meeting, car had just been finished and the suspension / ride height had not been fully sorted.
My photo of the car in the paddock area
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A couple of Graeme Lindsay photos - Graeme was a Flag Marshall at many events and has a large collection of action shots at Pukekohe over the years.
The Viva sitting high ; coming out of Railway
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Through the Esses heading for Rothmans and over the top to the Start /Finish line
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Another photo posted on TRS Facebook page - Gary Simkin photo Alan Boyle Viva and believed to be Tim Slako in the Mini - at the hairpin - the early livery so maybe 1971 GP meeting again. Has the gaffer tape on the fronts of the flares as in the Graeme Lindsay photos
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At a later meeting - photo from Alan's own archives ; meeting and date not noted - doesn't / does it look like Pukekohe ?? !
Different livery and a front / chin spoiler fitted - sitting lower too !!
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Post #364. Fifth place Rex Flowers Gemini. I presume that is the same FJ Gemini now owned by Jim Barclay? If so, a stunning result for a Junior - or was it fitted with a 1500cc engine back then?
Whenuapai 1989
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I spotted it! Thanks!
The Gemini looks great
Posted on Telecom thread but belong here ;
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Was at Pukekohe for the first time since 2007 [ saw the NZ V8's at that meeting ] for the Saturday of the " Supercars " .. have a few photos to download, mainly the Muscle cars and some Mustangs - plus the Radisich Mustang - a real screamer -revs to 11,500 rpm apparently.
NZ Muscle Cars -I presume the group that was " Central Muscle Cars " Saturday 14th September.
Sadly the Camaro had an off on the Sunday hitting a wall.
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More photos to edit;
A few more of mainly the " NZ Muscle Cars " but first the Mustang Parade group and as " they " - the Muscle Cars started ;
Programme Cover ;
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Mustang Parade Laps finished ;
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Some of the Muscle Cars - had a couple of favourites :
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Damn that wire fencing - even with a long lens [ 55 - 250 ] couldn't get to stand high enough up !!
A Montage of that TR4A - the slideways one -
when first bought in 1978
at Pukekohe 1979/80
after the accident 1980
at a Concours in 1978/79 not sure - a mate was there in his TR7 - an NZ Triumph TR Register gathering.
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Thanks to Graham Woods for these images from the programme and both Graham and Milan advised it is the december 1964 meeting;
Eric Mallards welcome.
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Driver Profiles
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Race 1 Saloons to 1000cc
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Race 2 BMC MINI Race
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Race 3 is missing will add when I get it ??
Race 4 Saloons 1301 - 2000 and 2001 and over class.
Rob Williams in his Ford V8 Coupe Graham Park in his well known Plymouth Coupe, Rob's great mate and my ex neighbour Allan Woolf in a Triumph 2000. Allan had lived in Seabrook Avenue, New Lynn when he had the Ford 8 as a race car - he moved to a new house in Green Bay around 1960 or so.
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Race 5 - All comer Saloons
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Race 6 Sports Cars - some Austin Healeys, Daimler SP250 with Trevor Sheffield Milan has the first 3 placings.
as ...
" The race was won by Jim Boyd (Lycoming), from Ian Green (Tojeiro Jaguar) and John Donnelly (HWM Thuderbird). "
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This from a magazine / book showing three SP250 Daimler's - including Trevor Sheffield leading and David Oxton .. From the March 1964 Race with Bob Wilkin in the middle SP250
Trevors car has the old style plate on " Black on Yellow "
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The 1961 - 1964/65 plates -
They started issuing the Aluminium Silver on Black plates in July 1963 for the 1963/64 year for Motorcycles and Trailers, Cars for the 1964/65 Registration year and Heavy Vehicles - Trucks Buses and Taxis etc the 1965/66 year
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Race 7 Single Seaters or Racing Cars as they are known
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Big gap to Race 15 -[ will add later ] - assume that some of the above would have had second or even third Races
1965 from Graham Woods archives - somewhere have a photo of the Team Cars - now to find it !! will post when I do !
Three Lawrences ..amongst some other well known drivers
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The Zephyr Corvette ran those colours Ivory with stripes for a while ..Pukekohe a Terry Marshall photo. Team Molyslip on the door and no stack pipes through the bonnet yet
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C M " Morrie " Hogan ran the "Allardette " .. here chasing the Morrari.. a Jack Inwood photo
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Both cars have registration and WOFs with licence plates....nostalgia !!!!!!!!!!!
farm tractors come in all shapes and sizes. from low single seaters with flat treaded tyres to huge 4wd monsters
I seem to remember that all race cars back in the 60s and maybe 50s had to have a registration plate attached somewhere. Someone whose memory is better than mine may like to correct me if i'm wrong.
had to be on the car when it went for scrutineering, but the reg did not say attached. wof had to be attached though.
Ardmore 1957
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normac special?
Roycroft Ferarri 375 showing no plate painted on nose.
got that wrong then
Ye, all hand painted, no stick on number plates like now
Allan - Correct - often they were bolted to the floor in saloons, and if not a Road Registration vehicle were to have a
" Daytime Warrant " - not requiring lights or indicators.
928 comments -" had to be on the car when it went for scrutineering, but the reg did not say attached. wof had to be attached though. "
Life is too complicated these days - Registration Papers only have the current owner on them - unlike this where you have a history of a car.
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Cars displayed a Registration Sticker and a Warrant Sticker and of course in Mid 1979 through to some time in 1980 a Carless Day sticker all stuck on the inside of the windscreen - no little stick-on pockets like today for the Rego ..
Carless Days stickers;
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Rego stickers 1970's on became much smaller by the 1990's
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My Carless Day sticker for the Triumph TR4A - put it in " clingwrap " and attached to the windscreen here with two paid for but never affixed Rego stickers from the Austin Healey 100 - was hardly driven 1991 - 1995
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WoF stickers have changed over the years but still a similar size and now have those punched out numbers.
Here an old one .. that graced a certain Healey in the 1980's BQ538 -
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Old Number Plates to complete the picture.
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Some items are mine some collected from Richard Armstrong and others..
Entry List for the 1963 Sports Car Trophy Race - which was previously held at Ardmore some years a Trophy Race other years there appears to be a Handicap Race at Ardmore, maybe both. Sports Cars were also able to enter the Main GP race if they qualified fast enough.
1963
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In the field the McLoughlin Healey Ruddspeed 3000 driven by P McLoughlin
[ Pat or Peter - some clarification of the name as had entered as P A T McLoughlin at the December 1964 ACC meeting with the car now running the Austin 4 litre motor ]
Brother Roger McLoughlin entered in an AH Sprite.
More on the Leathers /McLoughlin /Hick Austin Healey Ruddspeed 3000 - Austin 4000 is being posted on the Austin Healey thread once i have some details confirmed.
The Ruddspeed with the Mcloughlins Healey 100 Six - this around the time that Russell Leathers and McLoughlins swapped cars and some cash Leathers took the 100/6 as part trade.
This photo would be late 1961 as has the new Black Yellow plates 420.664
- before becoming BN2253 with the permanent plates introduction in 1964
- was 603.043 in white on deep red plates of the 1956 - 61 issue - car registered in NZ in 1960 or 1961.
Car is a 1959 3000 BT7 - so an early 3000 one of the first produced according Myles Hicks.
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A couple of Duncan Laird photos - presume at the same meeting which according to the Driver of the Anglia Dave Simpson would be December 1965 - the Auckland Car Clubs meeting.
The Fleetwood Mustang chasing Ron Brown in his Mini .. part of the Brown / Boyle Mini Team - with the Yellow Shield on the front Guards ..
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Dave Simpson Anglia ahead of the Morrari another Anglia [ Paul Fahey ? ] and others
Believe this is the January 1966 NZ GP meeting looking at the crowd, not the Dec 65 National Meeting [ Auckland Car Club ]- those fastback Anglia's had debuted at the December 1965 meeting at Pukekohe - the second round of the 1965 / 66 Championship [ after Renwick ]
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Duncan has posted quite a collection of mid 1960's meetings at Pukekohe on the Facebook group ;
" Old New Zealand Motor Racing ".
I've just found another variation to the Pukekohe track that was being contemplated in 1990.
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Milan, have not seen [ or not remembered [ that proposal - the loop was an interesting part of the circuit.
I fell off it in 1978 at the " NSCC Motorsport Day " event -4 events in one day ; Gymkhana ay the Clubrooms - on the Football field I think !! , 2 part Trial, part one then the Sprints at the Club Circuit, Trial part two followed by a Hill Climb at Cosseys Hill ( farm ) - in the Triumph GT6 - and spun badly in 1979 at the Stables corner - hit nothing, but a very slow lap in a Sprint event - In my TR4A was was up against an E-type Jaguar .. he got away and got caught by an MGB - not all bad as later owned one - MGB GT not an E-type ....
All contributions are appreciated - and as some of you will know - I have a few oops in my post - enjoy the corrections too.
All about preserving our Motorsport History
1978 ;
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This gem from Motorman in 1962 Donn Anderson must had a spy in the right place.
The full page article with a Race Meeting report
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The article [cropped] the shape a bit different than what actually was built but mention of a " Club Circuit " even in the early stages - what a pity that it went.
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Item from Graham Woods - " Old New Zealand Motor Racing " Fb page.
1962 a bit before I started to get the Magazine in 1964 - when my pocket money had built up.
My pocket money went on Autocar - the original UK one and Motorman - ordered at the bookshop across the road from School - Kelston Boys High, Archibald Road, Kelston, Auckland - was an Inmate there from 1961 to 1965
[ slow learner spent two years in the Fifth Form having failed School Cert by 4 marks and got nothing on the recount ]
Written by Rhys Jones - known in the Media and as a Motor Cycle racer for many years.
I have an Autographed [ Complimentary ] copy of the book published in 2008
-thanks to working with Rhys wife back in 2003 - 2009.
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New images - downloaded today but had the book a while
Saloon car race the " Bigger Bangers " I think was usually 1600 and over class.
Two photos one seen before - of the same race - second one a few seconds or a is it a later lap field still very close
First corner by the looks of the field -
was John Hatton in this race ? in his Zephyr Mark One - if so April [ not December ] 1964 the Auckland Car Club Autumn meeting - the last of the season.
Looks like him at the back and have the Programme for the meeting - posted here before - thanks to John H
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From a " 1972 " Magazine or Book by the way the Caption reads - gives you the drivers names. ** see correction next post
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The Radisich Family - Chris Radisich believes the caption is partially incorrect - the Race appears to be the Autumn Meeting of Auckland car Club on 4th April 1964. Of which I have the Programme as given to me by John Hatton Car #143
The White Zephyr #144 is Frank Radisich - from around the time he moved from a V8 Coupe. Bryan Innes is not in the Race.
Here is the entry list for the Race - Race #5 the copy cut off the numbers but first car in the list is George Bunce Chevrolet in #74 the rest are in numerical order from I W ' Red ' Dawson #139 then #141 Coppins #143 John Hatton - then Frank Radisich #144 and in order from #145 to #158 [ no #157 is missing [ apologies for the bad scanning - tried to do two pages at a time.
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Two pages of a Programme with all our -[ well mine anyway ] Heroes of the 60's and beyond.
Dawson, Coppins, Radisich, Riley, Souness, Marwood Saloons and in Sports - Conway [ as he drove a Healey of course ] Riley David Oxtons Dad in the SP250, our own Trevor Sheffield in his SP250 and an oddball car John Donnelly in the HWM Continental.
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Some other well knowns were in the smaller classes Saloons and Sports as well as the Single Seaters [ Racing Cars ] - posted a while ago - but follows the story ..
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Hi Roger. You keep this site interesting. Yes thats me right at the back in my immaculate Mk1. Zephyr. For the next race at Ohakea I was testing it on the back roads of Maramarua and rammed another car fortunatly no injuries. Bought the wreck back from the insurance co and rebuilt it only to do the same again a year later. Bill Stone was a sales rep and racing a black Cooper at the time and would call in to see the rebuild at my workshop in Maramarua.. Ha all fond memories..