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More from Last Sunday - Group A etc this time...........
Can-Am
Sports/GT
Formula Ford/Tasman/Junior etc
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This doesn't look like Paul Radisich - or Paul Halford, so can anyone confirm who the driver is?
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Greeta Hulme leads the MG parade. Great lady!
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Just spent about an hour reading through the thread. Its wonderful to know the event attracts such interest and praise. We are aware that searching for perfection is a tough game, but we try every year to make the event a bit better than the last.
We have been inundated with some really nice messages and comments about the Denny Hulme events, and we just wanted to say back, officially..
Thank You.
Great forum by the way. Off for a look in some of the other threads now.
Cheers all,
Richard Gee
NZFMR Director
Congratulations Richard and your team for a great event. I have been to race meetings in Europe, England, and Australia, this one would be one of the best for atmosphere, cars and drivers. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing.
Wonderful to see so many top photos to bring back memories. I can't wait for next years meeting.
Nice to catch up with you Richard. Although I wasn't racing (perhaps as well with a crook shoulder!) I also thought the atmosphere was great. For me, it made a change having the time to actualy chat to people and take pics.
Looking forward to next year's Ferrari celebration. I doubt we'll get as many overseas drivers in 2014 but the overall costs of bringing a car to NZ from Europe in their winter, racing at two or three or even four events, is probably better value cashwise for them and gives them more track time than a whole season in the northern hemisphere, so maybe we need to market these festivals overseas even harder than we already do - and it also brings in tourist dollars!
For us locals, seeing so many overseas cars is the real highlight and for the overseas visitors, they love to see our cars.
Like Beowulf, I have spectated at many circuits, and Hampton Downs and Goodwood are head and shoulders above the rest. I wouldn't go back to Monaco though. The glamour does not make up for being coralled in one section of the track nor the programme which has 10 minutes of racing followed by 45 minutes of inactivity.
NZ runs race meetings far better than the Europe and the UK - and they are better value for both drivers and spectators.
Great pics as always. Shame they didn't have this class both weekends. I hate to say it, but the CanAms would have been better as a demo and these saloons given another outing.
What you don't notice in the photo's, bloody brilliant as they are, is that ALL the signwriting on the Rover, including driver's country flags, are hand painted.
That's always the thing that bugs me about restorations that people do these days - the computor graphics that are done because there is a real shortage of people that can signwrite the "old fashioned" way.
Maybe I'm just old and fussy :-)
I still have a couple of tins of signwriter's black they used before stick on numbers were the norm! At each event, the signwriter would be around scrutineering/documentation with his mahl stick, brushes and both white and black paint. Another bit of history lost.
My mate the sign writer would find it hard to keep his hand still now. Always reckon he was better with a couple of cans under the belt.
I doubt if any were beter than {Toenails" lost his legs when 4yrs." watched him doing the side of Telstar at Manfield some years back ,wondered how he could do the windscreen.No problem just swung onto the bonet with ease,nothing he could not do, swim, fly a plane, race cars circuit and W.Springs,Travels the world helping folks to a beter life!!
Rod, I`m glad I did a full signwriting apprenticeship in the late `70`s, rather than the `graphics applicator' course of today. When I`m not busy with the machinery imports, I enjoy helping people with their motorsport restorations doing the lettering by brushwork, but it is becoming a vanishing trade.
Is that Tony Christiansen you're talking about, Jim? I was at school with him, bloody hell he had some go in him !
Believe he's been to Bonneville in the last few years as well. A great inspiration to those amongst us who are "too busy" or it's "too hard" to get stuff done.
Wow, you guys posting all these photos, you're a talented bunch! These are just fantastic and I'm really enjoying looking through them all. Great work!
Yes thats him sorry but in a senior moment his name sliped my mind,no doubt caused by you know who!!
Just remembering the tale when Tony was on lifegard at the Mount,he went out and saved this young women from drowning,on getting back on the beach when she came to ,she noticed his legs were missing and assuming a shark had got him she fainted