It wasn't me .. a line from a song ..
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I found this video of the good old days at Pukekohe and Bay Park about 1968-69.
Check the early Formula A cars at Bay Park.
I had a question; what is the green sports car at about the 40 second mark and who is driving the white Imp ?
Roger, I hope that is not you !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_h9DNzudrE
(Ken Hyndman )
Ken, never had an Imp, was a Mini boy at the time 67-68 and then 71-74 .. would have been at Pukekohe then, maybe not at Baypark .. great footage ..
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Famous photos from the elbow GP meeting 1965 the Saloons ..
These two photos are well known [ not mine ] but have appeared in Classic Driver in 2010 the first one and now both recently on Facebook on the page " NZ car related street scenes 1950's to 1980's " Allan Dick believes they were taken by and Auckland Star newspaper photographer.
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Both David McKinney [ dcd ] and Donn White wrote to Classic Driver in the Issue #33 August September 2010 after the first photo appeared in " Dusty's " section of the magazine in an earlier issue.
These are the letters from the magazine
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Hopefully it is readable..
also another letter re the Gee Cee Ess .. and a small picture of the Edelbrock Special and a Healey 100S.. which of course got my " Interest ". Allan Dick acknowledges that I have copied form " His " magazine .. with the comment pleased to see I had back issues .. left some behind in NZ unfortunately, and now only get them when I visit " home " .
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Reverse Direction meeting 1966 - a couple of pics
A couple of pictures from Robin Tanner which Bruce Thompson posted on Facebook, may have been on TRS on another thread. Bruce said that they may have been taken by Robins family ;
All of my photos have been posted ;
Kevin Green Chev and Robin Tanner Ford, coupes
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Cars in the Saloon handicap race, heading toward the start finish from the elbow..an interesting mix of cars and big crowd in the old stand, right on the track.
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Pukekohe 1964 the Saloon field -
Some of the field heading for the Grid at Pukekohe 1964, This is not the ACC meeting held on 4th April 1964 but has a lot of the same cars.
These are from the ACC meeting, which John Hatton [ John H ] kindly sent me
Small Sports Cars and 1301-2000 cc Saloons.
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over 2001 cc Saloons with John Hatton is his Zephyr and the over 1500 sports cars.
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This is a mixed grid of both classes by the looks
and here are a lot of those cars, including the De Soto, and those Ford and other Coupes, largely Corvette / Chevrolet powered - from early to late 1930's Souness Dawson Riley and Co..
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Picture courtesy Bruce Thompson - may be a Robin Tanner family photo.
as I wasn't there.. before my time..
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Pukekohe - De Soto .. mid 1960's ??
Another grid at Pukekohe, with we think Colin Lumsden in the De Soto, now with flares on the rear, wires on the front and exhausts and a scoop out of the bonnet. another photo from Bruce Thompson.. may not be his own !!
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Pukekohe - various photos - 1964 - 71
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Originally Posted by
Roger Dowding
The pictures are my own taken with a basic Kodak Camera with no adjustments possible, just point and shoot;.
April 1966 meeting ; the Reverse Direction one ; never tried again as too dangerous and quite a few accidents including
Ron Browns Mini; as mentioned Ron was Assistant Clerk of the course that day ; he was the Team Mate of Allan Boyle who also ran a Cooper " S ".
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Dennis Marwood - Cooper
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Ivan Segedin - Mustang [ The Fleetwood Mustang - with the feature of the time stack exhaust pipes, many a good bonnet wrecked ].
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The Sports cars get ready - Bucklers, Daimler SP250 Honda S600 [ another photo later of this car ]
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The thread has expanded with lots of photos from others, Thank you all for your contributions, and a few I have borrowed, with the appropriate credit.
As it turned out my earliest photos were 1965, once I had sorted through them - need a negative viewer so can create better quality copies.
There have been recently quite a few contribution back to 1964 so the title is still relevant !!
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Colin Lumsden De Soto V8 at Pukekohe various photos
A lot of interest in this car, there is a big thread on Facebook of it with pictures from various people.
Will group them here, thanks to Bruce Thompson, Bob Homewood, Alan Boyle, Marc Montague, and others ;[ names appear on the photos, thanks to those who provided them.
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Car is listed in a programme as being 5000 cc but thought to be a 291 c.i Chrysler / De Soto motor.
ran dual rear wheels and sometimes wire wheels, had exhausts out of the bonnet and big flared arches on the rear.
Car looking very smart and not bodged around in the last pic from Alan Boyle.
Last picture is another Mopar car, anyone know of it ??