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Mt Manganui Street Races 1962 - 1963.
Going through this thread - from " Oldfart's " Inquiry.
These photos from Graeme Kennish archives - Allan Dick had posted them and indicated it was 1964.
From comments here It seems that the track was used in 1962 - 1963.
Jaguar and Zephyr .. Alistair McBeath #66 and Sprague had #51 in 1962
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Small Saloon Car field, Austin A40's, a VW, Anglia's, Mini's. - 1962 - [ not as noted on the photo- to be corrected ].
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J Murphy in his Anglia #34 - attacking the Haybales. He is entered in 1963 as #34 Anglia with a 1640cc engine
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Need to check the details against the Entry Lists from GD66 and Milan Fistonic copied below
December 1962 - the last weekend of the year which became the traditional date for the Big Baypark meeting.
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December 1963
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I have a couple of Newspaper /Motorman articles which I show as being 1964 .. buy guess published in January 1964 about the December 28th, 1963 Event ??
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December 29, 1962 and December 28, 1963. Mt Maunganui Street Circuit.
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Originally Posted by
Milan Fistonic
The two Mount Maunganui events were held on December 29, 1962 and December 28, 1963.
The cars in the second photo are:
Kerry Grant - A40
Paul Fahey - VW
Morrie Hogan - Anglia
Neil Johns - Mini
Brian Ax - A40
They finished in the order Grant, Johns, Hogan, Murray Charles and AX. Fahey retired on lap 3.
Thanks Milan, noticed two VW entries in the 1962 event.
C M Hogan - The Ford " Anglia " was a 997cc in 1962 and a 1498cc in 1963 - presume as the Allardette was Supercharged and they put a 1.5 ratio on the cc's of supercharged cars. Was it the same Anglia just with the Allard supercharger kit or a new car ??
Allard under Sidney Allard's son [ Allan Allard ] have made recreations of the Allardette in recent years.
Photos from a 2019 Edition of Octane Magazine
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Mt Maunganui - the Street Races 1962 - 1963.
A photo has emerged at the Mount Circuit with a Jaguar Mk2 and a Humber 80 number #54.
Some discussion about the car as originally noted as the Archibald Jaguar.
Humber 80 - in 1962 a Humber had race #54 driven by R W Fuller, in 1963 it was Dennis Marwood race number.
Simon Taylor ran a Jaguar Mk 2 in 1962 - Race #33.
Alister Mcbeath ran one as Race #66 in 1962 - his car did not have the nose covering.
So ... Who is it ???
The Photo; Car Race number on the Jaguar looks like " #50 "
Note ; Plate is " 708.158 " not as on photo - had to magnify to read it properly and is not the plate that McBeath had " 239.322 "
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Jaguar and Humber at Totara Street Hull Road Corner - Mt Maunganui 1963.
Milan, thank you
" The number on the Jaguar is 50. It's John Ward's car from 1963. "
Interestingly the photo of the Jaguar #50 and the Humber #54 featured in the Motorman report on the Event.
Here is the same photo - image from John Climo archives.
Also note that the other Humber that was #54 in 1962 of R Fuller was in the race at #52.
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Would like to have images of the rest of the races - to fill in a few gaps in " The Knowledge ".
Whose car was it, before John Ward got it - has similar nose protection to the Archibald Jaguar and others of the time.
Here from Levin 1960 - not sure who - not Simon Taylor [ in my opinion ** see Milan's note and entry list post #48 - next one ] as he didn't seem to protect his car at events. seems like he did. !
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