Lionel Spitz?
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Lionel Spitz?
David ,thanks ,I have the name Brian Paddy in my mind ,it would have run the early days of Pukekohe around 65/65 ,I am pretty sure the chap used to advertise his business in the NSCC monthly rag back then,I don't think he was the person who changed the engine in it .but I could be wrong for some reason I'm connecting Peter Hull with it ,not sure ,thats why I thought I would ask on here
Car 219, slightly obscured behind the officials, is Lionel (?Lou) Spitz. Programme says car is red/black, but not so. I won't name the event, as it occurs to me that punters might like to try to identify Who What or When. Where is obvious!
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Does trigger off any more memories? How about 'name the officials'.
Stu
Lots of Bucklers in there!
Thanks ,yes its triggering memories ,but I just got to get the brain to agree with my thoughts ,by the time the Alpine crossed my path in life again around 1975 ,it was red in colour,at that time I took the MG twin Cam engine out of it and returned it to Rootes power for a completely different person ,incidentally one of the young locals in my area brought the motor to put in his Morris Oxford ,don't know if it ever happened,I guess its with the Metal Man now,Stu thanks for that photo ,will browse it more fully when time allows
Not as many as you might think, O.F.
Only one actually.
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Red cars from left : O.Cullen Buckler, K.Yeats Orchid, Hughes Lotus 11.
By mid 1960's Bucklers were getting a bit sparse on the staring grids.
Stu
who what were
Dan Gurney, Lotus <LA
John Surtees, Lotus 18 USA!!
[QUOTE=Kwaussie;7313]John Surtees, Lotus 18 USA!![/QUOTE
Yes , well done,,,Photo caption says "John Surtees drives his F1 Lotus up University Avenue heading towards the raceway for the 1960 U.S. Grand Prix." ...Riverside
Who (although the driver is absent), what, where ...
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Hmm, Mclaren used to run the #47, looks like a Austin healey 100/4, could it be Levin ?..Im not familiar with NI circuits of old. Car currently owned by B.C. Clearwater if it is...
Lots of people seem more interested in the car in the background!
The Healy entrant has I think near new Dunlop racing tyres so must be someone serious like Bruce or Pop McLaren.
Place would be Ardmore 1955 GP Meeting (circuit was run anti-clockwise in the first 2 GPs)
Car 47 was J(John?) Seabrook - of Seabrook Fowlds Austin importers presumably.
McLaren car was No 11.
Reg no. is wrong for the McLaren car. I'm with Stu on this one:)
From memory Bruce didn't run the Healey as 47 very much - it wasn't really till the Coopers that he stuck with it
Yes, Stu's correct. It was a little bit of a trick question with the 100/4 and number 47. The McLaren 100/4 had a rego number of 346.239.
Should be the Austin Healey of Charlie Conway, and Mistral is Richard McNair.
Yeats' Orchid body looks very similar to AMW Buckler but tail looks different :
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Well my friend who arranged in later years for me to take the MG twin Cam engine out of the Alpine and convert it back to Rootes power ,told me today that to his understanding ,the Alpine engine was removed from the Alpine back in the beginning and found a home In Robbie Francevics Humber 80 ,then of course the Alpine ended up with the MG twin cam engine ,can anyone expand on this
Well
Is that one of those Mini based cars? Terrapin?...OK just checked..not a Terrapin
Looks more like a pre-unit Triumph twin. Could it be an early version of an MER ?
I'm pretty sure it's the Mini-Max
Yo At the bottom of Chamberlan Rd hill climb ready to roll down the start Jamie A
And probably Ross Hollings, I would think
Sorry, both David and Jamie are not right yet. Much closer to your old home town Jamie.
My photo of the car was possibly taken at the same event. I have labelled it Challenger Special, not a car I was particularly familiar with, but obviously I got the info from someone who was.
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It was apparently built by Northlander Graham Walker and had a 250cc BSA motor, and was quite competitive.
PS When I first saw your picture, Oldfart, I thought it was somebody's accident, with cars, people and wheels all over the place. Not so, obviously.
Stu
The dense subtropical forest of Oldfart's picture doesn't look like Chamberlain Rd Bombay. Perhaps a little bit further north at Puhipuhi for a Gold Star hillclimb. Perhaps it really is the Mini-Max with Ross Hollings or J Pettit in the helmet.
Or maybe I was right first time with car/driver.
Does the sign on the side of the car say "Just Married"?
Stu
In that case it must be John Pettit
I was guessing, based on the fact that Hollings would have run at Chamberlain Road more often than Pettit
Or of course it could have been the guy who bought it from RH, and put it down the bank somehwere. Or am I thinking of a different car now?
David has the driver surname (I thought, and wrote at the time Clive) but no-one is close on the venue yet. I was talking with the creator of the Minimax, Max Rutherford at Taupo at the weekend. He has done a magnificent job of the resto of the JBS.
Apparently the Minimax was created as a speedway TQ and "multi used" a lot before being sold, and rear engine cars banned from speedway (at least TQ). He was considering a replica of the 'max.
I think the Flowers gemini was aquired by the late Roy Lyme for hillclimbing. I ended up with the tail section when the car was modified at Rob Colliers workshop in Levin.
Grant Ellwood
Not John Pettit says he wasnt sily enufh to have just maried writen on his car ?? but says it is his old car and would like to know where it is Jamie A
John Pettit has just payed me a visit and seen the 2 photos and now sayes that it is him in the first photo the car is down in a gully after falling off the road .he bought the car of Max Rutherford Jamie A
OK, so I was wrong with my naming at the time, so I will accept John. BUT the car is NOT down a gully after falling off the road. It is on a bank between the turn around loop and the first uphill part of the road at a Gold Star hill climb at Tarawera, went from the lake edge up to almost the Buried Village. Now Jamie would know why I said "closer to home"!
Another
Is that the " old english gent "