Bob about the visibility,I was always impressed how you little folk could drive such fast cars so close to each other without touching
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Steve, best of luck with Oscar. As you say they are part of the family. And I think the bigger they are the more they attach to you.
Cheers
Jim, About visibility, those VW's were pretty hard to see out the back of as well, especially when they had been modified. I never could see through the back window to see what you were up too, so I wouldn't pass in case you had not noticed (again) that some one was quickly catching and following you.
Will give you a call before Xmas (mate)
GD66 in answer to your question in your PM ,that meeting would be Levin 15th January 1972 and if it is the green Anglia ,I believe that is Bob Neilsen from Petone ,the other Anglia hidden alongside it would possibly be Greg Lancaster,now you can be a good chap and post it in the right thread for me
All the best for a speedy recovery for Oscar, Steve. They certainly are mans best friends.
Bruce.
Another of Gerards Jack Inwood photos, this one of Joe Chamberlain in his Trans-Am Camaro in 1973 at Bay Park.
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And another Jack Inwood photo, of Jim Palmer and John Riley at Renwick. Obviously a lot of respect was shown between drivers on this track. This stretch of road is really a single lane.
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Gad ! Not terribly wide ! Presumably that's the Stanton in fourth, who would be the red car in third ? Silver helmet not ringing any bells...
Now i know this is not what you want to talk about boys,this is for steve holmes i think i know how you feel about your dog steve .Last week this little dog the size of a small cat got out, and too very big dogs ran across the road i got there just in time to stop them from taking this little dog a part ,the lady owner of this little dog was and is still very upset over what went down because like you say they are part of the family ,so all the best to you with your dog and hope things work out for you and your family.
Steve, I know what its like. We lost the second of our two Lab / Huntaway's earlier this year and it took a bit of getting used to. They certainly make themselves an important part of your life.
Cheers David, I wondered about that but had a mental picture of Kerry having a dark helmet. That's the first Renwick pic I've seen in colour, I think. I'm really enjoying the amount of historical treasure this wonderful forum is unearthing.
He used a white hat early in the season, then changed to a dark (black?) one
This is Paul Fahey and Red Dawson (ex-Segedin) blasting off the line in their Mustangs.
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Thanks for that Norm, I appreciate it. Unfortunately he died on Thursday last week. The surgeons opened him up to remove the tumour, and found he was riddled with cancer throughout his body. It amazes me he was so strong and so brave, and never complained once, and never gave any indication of the pain and discomfort he must have been in. What an amazing creature! He is much missed, and much loved.
Sorry to Gerard I steered his amazing thread off topic with this.
Real sorry to hear that Steve. They are amazing animals and seldom let you know what they are going through.
Steve- Dogs give themselves completely , love their owners 100%, and never complain.That is a love for you to always hold ,remember and treasure.Oscar may not be with you, but he will never forgotten.
[QUOTE=Steve Holmes;22131]This is Paul Fahey and Red Dawson (ex-Segedin) blasting off the line in their Mustangs.
Attachment 14622[/QUOTE Just wanted to accurately credit this photo of Paul Fahey and Red gunning there Mustangs off the line at Pukekohe in late '67. This photo was taken by Thorpe Studio's in Pukekohe. They were responsible for taking quite a number of motor racing images in the Franklin area from the mid 60's to about 1973.Many were printed in their monthly publication Franklin Photo News, which ran between those dates. These regional photo news magazines were published in many regions of New Zealand and most of them carried quite interesting segements on Motor Sport in their respective area's. The Roaring Season has illustrated a number of these pics from different parts of the country in a selection of the threads. These photo news mags are very interesting records of the grass level and international level of motor sport in N.Z. but they are now almost impossible to find.:)
Pleased I saved some now,plus some 1952 Mechanix Illustrated.
Gerard- as you say these photos are special, but in another way. David McKinney has pointed out that in the 60s racing cars were single seaters and that saloon cars were basically just a filler.Around this time, it looks as if saloons were taken a little bit more seriously by the press, and thats why we have these pix.
I agree with you. I have a small stash of about 15 Photo News mags from about 1961 to 1973 from various regions of N.Z and they are a wonderful social history of the "simpler times?" of the 60's and early 70's in N.Z. In particular they provide a fascinating pictorical insight into many aspects of motorsport in N.Z. in these regions including, club grass track racing, hillclimbs, early stock car racing, circuit racing, drag racing, motorcycle racing and power boat racing. They are real underated treasures, in the historical side of recording Kiwi's passion for motorsport and automobiles, plus many other aspects of the popular culture at the time.
[QUOTE=Gerard Richards;22192]Looking at photo to me sums it up, (please don't get this wrong) Paul Fahey the perfectionist, Look at car presentation, fit of helmet ect. "Red" the hard charger, and helmet sits on head, 'she's all good'. I loved watching Red Dawson and his hard charge on attitude, and he and Johnny Riley were favorites, but looking back now Mr Fahey was the pro. and showed the results.
PS have good look. Mr Fahey has shoulder harness, don't see anything over Mr Dawsons shoulders.
Until about 1960, racing saloons were mainly "shopping cars" with a few Jaguars thrown in, but then people found that Hillman and Anglia motors could be made to go a lot faster, and in the North anyway, prewar American V8 coupes started to appear following the demise of stock car racing in Auckland. Riley, Dawson, Garth Souness, Bert Jones etc were top stock car men and others like Jack Nazer and Rod Coppins first appeared in V8 coupes. The new breed of drivers put new life into saloons racing and it became more than a supporting act.
Then overseas trends led to Mini-Coopers and Lotus Cortinas and by the mid-1960's Ford Mustangs, and suddenly everything had changed. You could buy and race a Mini-Cooper S or get one with a bit of export-import skullduggery and a trip to Australia and the sport changed quite quickly. You didn't need to be an ace mechanic - there were people you could pay to prepare your car, and motor racing was on the up. New circuits - Pukekohe, Ruapuna, Timaru, BayPark were built. They must also have been good times economically, looking back on it. With McLaren Hulme Amon racing in Europe at the top level there was plenty of publicity for the sport, and saloon car racing was usually competitive and often spectacular. Judging by some of the threads on this forum, it was great fun off the track, too!
Stu