Allan rallied the Vitesse and he was fast in the forests as well.
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Allan rallied the Vitesse and he was fast in the forests as well.
Remember Allan ran the Vitesse in some races with a streamlined fibreglass front, instead of the steel lift up front. think he also put a 2.5 litre PI motor in it at one stage.
He built for me a modified exhaust system new front pipe and collector and new split tail pipes set up for my TR4A, after the accident.
Rallied a 3.0 litre Capri in the International Rally one year, mid - late 1970's
Allcomers race the start
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Zephyr Corvette
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A40 Farina
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Breadvan Anglias
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Mini and Fiat - the small class.
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Massive crowd on the elbow corner and how close could we get to the track. Flag Marshalls on a small dirt mound, and we loved it !!
I found this photo I took at Pukekohe, but I did not put a date on it. Perhaps 1970 /71.
Could the cars and anyone in the photo be named please.
It does look like my brother's friend is trying to break into the # 46 Mini Cooper !
(Is that Alan Boyles Mini with the Coca Cola headlights ?)
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( Ken Hyndman photo )
Thanks to Bob Homewood for supplying this image, which includes the '32 roadster in the background.
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I think the photo is the 1948 Mt Eden hill climb. The winning car was #66 (the second car back on the left). This was Des Herrick's midget powered by a Hudson Terraplane engine. The car had an interesting life and was converted to a circuit car in 1950, pranged in 1956 and rebuilt by Bruce McLaren (with Phil Kerr and Colin Beanland), was Chris Amon's first race car in 1959 and morphed over the years by a number of owners. It now appears as in Ray's Collection of Photos thread at post #676.
Going to be away for a week so these boys will keep an eye on TRS for me.
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Think this was actually a Grand Prix meeting, looking at the crowd, probably 1967. as there is a photo from the same spot with the Breadvan Anglia's.
That photo was in Lester's old scrapbook as the Kidston Hillclimb Cup and according to what else I have been able to decipher was that although he had labelled it 1949 it was actually on December 11th 1948,and apparently it used a flying start, i.e no hockey stick was used .Sometime I must have a look but I think the start might have been at the end of Edwin Street ?
I took this photo at Pukekohe and I need help in finding out when it was taken. I think it was 1972.
Also name the cars / drivers as best possible.
Thank you.
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Marwood, Riley,Richards, Silcock, Coppins (Winfield colours) ?
Thanks John,
Would that have been at this meet ?
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Ken- usually never missed a meeting 70-75
Always look forward to your pics, Roger, much appreciated.
Ken, great photo, and shows the Elbow and the curve for the shorter and now current circuit, when first built the track didn't have the curve to railway, you did the Elbow around the loop and down the short straight to Railway corner and the back straight.
someone asked about the Elbow recently, maybe on another thread ??
Photos to come next week as have finished with the " Dunedin Historics 1984 ".
The Elbow or Stables bend as it was sometimes called was an interesting and for some folks a challenging corner. Down the front straight full noise and turning right under brakes and trying to set up for a sharp left hander. Loved that corner.
Allan, didn't do me any favours one day, as racing [ a sprint event 2 x 2 x 2 etc, set off at intervals - on the track ] an MGB in my TR4A, I selected first coming out of Elbow, hit the throttle, caught some loose metal and did a 360 while the MG raced away, never caught him.
Can anybody be definite about when the loop part of the track was used at a major meeting?
Ta
I remember in the Porsche LeMans 1991 or 92 we used it-I was in a Mini Cooper.
2 years later we used the loop in reverse for a Rally Sprint-finished going through the gate to the stands.
continuing the 1966 NZ Grand Prix meeting photos.
Maserati 3500 GT
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the huge crowd and a single seater ?, there is still grass where to course now curves right where the elbow - stables used to be taking the track left and around the loop to Railway corner
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Honda S600 and a Mistral or Buckler !!
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Mustang - the Fleetwood Motors Segedin car
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The small car class, Minis mainly through the Elbow [ similar place from where Ken Hyndman took his photo of the big guys, Mustangs etc.
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Just noticed that the Elbow has the tarseal for the run to Railway in place, so sometime after 1967 the must have built that section.
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The long circuit was used for the NZGP in 1966, but the short one was used for the next year's GP on Jan 7th, 1967.
Milan , I am now confused as thought the photos in the latter part of this thread were from Grand Prix 1967, but it appears they are GP 1966.
Thanks as always for your information.
Have two shots taken from by the Stables from the same film of the Grand Prix cars using the " long " circuit.
Here are the photos from the Stables [ Elbow corner ] as can be seen was quite close to the track standing where the short circuit now goes, but before the piece was built, so must have been January 1966.
the photos first as taken and then close up
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Can someone identify the white [ with stripes ] single seater.
Red Dawson
I think it may be Leo Geoghegan in the Lotus 32.
Looking back through the " Motorsport 1966 " yearbook Looks like the Ex-Matich Brabham 2.5 of Red Dawson as has the double side stripe.
Leo Geoghegan's Lotus 32 Ford 1.5 has a single side stripe.
Leo placed 5th and Red 7th, Red won at Waimate and ran the Brabham again in 1967
see post #154 below, I got it wrong
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This pic of Leo is on the Sergent site's report of the 1966 NZGP.
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Agree about Red's stripes though :cool:
My vote goes with Leo Geoghegan as the intakes are on the right side and it looks like a number 7
(Ken Hyndman ) Good memories Roger
GD66 I go with you now, thanks to you and Ken H, I had confused my 1966 GP photos with the 1967 GP and titled photos the wrong year.
Have edited some of the posts to correct this - and there is a photo in the Motorsport '66 book by Allan Dick of the '66 GP with Les Rankin using the Maserati as the Clerk of Course car, sort of seals it.
Note to self, you have all these books and magazines, research before you post !!
cheers
Roger
Hey Roger,no ones perfect,pictures are fantastic and enjoying them,used to work on the grids during that time and saw most of these cars and drivers close up.Good memories,keep them coming. RH
Second that, evocative snaps of a wonderful time in NZ's motorsport history. I'm no rivet-counter by any means Roger, but it got my eye as I have always been a Geoghegan fan. Would love to have gone to the GPs in those years but didn't make it to Puke until 1970, so your pics are a treat, buddy.
GD66, a few more to come of single seaters at the '66 GP , then other photos from 1966-68 or so which I am unsure of the dates, but all at Pukekohe, Anglias, the Humber Jag, a Pontiac and others - a slow process as Ray [ ERC ] Green notes. takes me about an hour to scan resize and post 6 photos - very slow !!.