Ray- missed this period. I know the Algie machine, who are the others?
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Ray- missed this period. I know the Algie machine, who are the others?
So do I....I have just hooked forth gear round the right hand kink with the foot hard up it....and bugger me if the left rear shock absorber broke! I did probably the fastest top gear spins that the club circuit would ever witness! Both the windscreen wipers were pulled straight out pointing forwards from the G forces and I was covered in rubber through the little port hole in the drivers door (which was just big enough for me to get my hand signals done.) Shit I thought I was going to hit the flaggies mound....and the weirdest of things....the first spin while I was pointing towards the crowd on the hill everyone was sitting down and the next time around everyone was standing up....it reminded me at the time of someone opening venetion blinds! I had just passed the Chevette V8 for the lead with one lap to go......then bang!.....I managed to drive across the grass and pass Shenley Dato on the line for second....all the time pretending I wasn't fazed......fear crapped me self actually!..... Thanks for the pix..any more of the old girl? Kind regards, Tony Rutherford.
Sorry Tony, I think that is the only pic I have of your car. It was either the the first or the second meeting I attended in NZ, having arrived Jan 17th 1983. About two months later I think, I was flagging, with a crew from NSCC right up to purchasing the Marcos in 1991.
I thought it ironic that my club in the UK was also NSCC (Nottingham Sports Car Club) where I left as Competition Secretary and newsletter editor, joining the Northern Sports Car Club as soon as I arrived.
Sorry, the pics were taken in reverse order to the original listing, so I'll swap them around!
Thanks for the extra info as I didn't have a programme. I hadn't realised it was Kim Austin - TV star of rallysprints.
Phil Henley still lives in Kohimaramara, has been a recent customer, still talks of his Torana and Datsun racing days Next time he swings past I will ask if he has any pics to contribute
Yeah Kim and I were always betting a dozen beers on our rally and racing stints....Ha...had a lot of fun with him. Tragically killed in a helicopter with another rally pilot Barnes. (they hit power wires that stretched over a long distance....sad day for us all really...) Had to let him off owing me a dozen beers for a wheel lifting contest we had at Taupo race track in our Mazda Rally cars......I held mine up the longest and furtherest by going around the sweeper onto the back straight and making the corner continue down the straight for a bit longer by steering in field..........I would be walking through the pits mentally preparing for one of the many B&H enduros or may have been Wellington Street race two the following weekend at Puke in a world of my own and all of a sudden my trousers including under dungers would be at my ankles...bloody Kim would be crying with excitable laughter....................... Do you still own the Marcos? Cheers and regards..Tony Rutherford.
Yes Tony. Still have virtually no use of my left hand and putting on race gloves is extremely difficult so not competing at the moment. Surgeon expects it to take another 2 years before the nerves reconnect - all caused through twisting and crushing my spine when trying to put a headlining in to cover the non-MSNZ approved cage. Aaarrgh!
I have started logging all the negative films (not the frames - yet, films is bad enough), without having to scan them. Even with a new scanner, it still takes an age to scan each negative strip and it is only then that you realise that the focus isn't what it should be, so you scrap the scan. It also begs the question why photo shops usually snipped your films into strips of four, when the old filing system wallets (and the scanners) take strips of six.
A bit more recent this time.
Digital juniors... Hampton Downs 2013
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Ray- as a motor trimmer who has to twist himself inside cars on a regular basis to fit weird hoodlinings you have my sympathy
Prince Bira I think
A real mix this time... From 1948 Silverstone's first GP. ( Dad's pic of course); 1973 racing car show; 2004 Goodwood Festival and the Donington Collection.
First pic is John Bolster driving 'Remus', one of the three ex-Bira ERA's. Bolster was best known as a journalist, then later, did the pit TV broadcasts, with trademark walkie talkie on his back and wearing a deerstalker hat.
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The annual Racing Car Show at Olympia each January was always on my hit list and an opportunity to expand my book collection thanks to Chater and Scott. I think this might have been either THE last one, or my last one.
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Could that be Bob McMurray in the background?
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Count Godin de Beaufort's orange Porsche would never have been allowed to run in F1 events if todays rules regarding a percentage of the fastest time had been applied, but he added some welcome colour and variety to the grids when privateers were able to run in F1 - and did.
September 1986? (Could be October) - and I'd like to know an exact date if possible.
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It's that man again...
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Probably late October 1986. Not the sharpest of pics.
The Westall Jag - on steel wheels...
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What is interesting here is that back in 1986, I didn't know that there were only two Marcos Volvo 3 litres in the country. Dave Walker's and...
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Richard Atkinson's. I certainly had no idea that less than 5 years later, this was to be mine...
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Wow thanks for these Ray.....Top shot; Me getting held up by Brett Willis (again!) so opened his eyes by passing him on the "marbles" outside of turn one, followed by Bruce Manon and the late great "Jigger" Jones. Will try find date for you.
Middle shot; Bob Homewood's "I told ya so" light weight Esky Weapon.
Bottom shot; Drifty hassling Steve Webbly Alf Alfa. This Escort is still in Rod's ownership and could be purchased if you threw $50,000 under Rod's nose....(or anywhere else under him!) Great Class winning championship car well driven in between giving moustache rides for 50 cents on the day! Kind regards, Tony Rutherford.
Brett Willis Commodore
Tony Rutherford RX2
Bruce Manon Turbo Escort
Glenn Jones Datsun 1200
Bruce Anderson Falcon
Peter Yates?RX3
Veen Smith Commodore?
unknown driver Escort
Rod Grimwood Escort
unknown driver unknown car
unknown driver Fiat 124? or is it another RX2? and if so Rex Hawes?
Steve Webling Alfa Romeo GTV
unknown driver Escort
unknown driver and car
Bob Homewood Escort
unknown driver and car but could it be Neville Langley in an Avenger Tiger?
Graham Everson? Holden Monaro?
I know its not a very good answer to what the date is but its a starting point.
Thanks for that. All great information. As I name all my pics, both digital and digitised, by the date first (it keeps them all in sequence), you can imagine how useful it is to have a date rather than a guess. From 1964 - 1969 and from 1990 to date, I have kept a full page daily diary, but the years in between do make it a bit erratic, unless I have a race programme.
I posted a pic of the Hourigan XJS on the touring car thread and scanned the others at the same time. Not the sharpest of pics unfortunately.
Grand Prix practice day Jan 4th 1986.
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Green and yellow...
Goodwood 2000
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Hampton Downs 2010
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Monaco 2012
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Lotus, Cooper, Token, Lotus - always liked the Lotus 16, ever since the slot cars that came with the set
Aha ! Scalextric !
Here is something a little bit older. A reverse direction race at Pukekohe, Robin Tanner in his '39 Ford coupe (Edelbrock Special) held off Garth Souness for second place. This is taken from the elbow of the club circuit, photo from Robin Tanner collection.
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Just for a change - people...
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Yep Parksy sold it to John Coulton.It did have tinted windows...the car caught fire at Baypark..Graham got out ok and damage was super ficial............because no one could see the fire through the windows MANZ passed a directive that all cars will tinted glass (mine included) were to have them replaced with clears.....This was a very well engineered car that had in board suspension and mid mounted P76 turbo charged V8 in it....talking to George Biscuit last week and Graham has purchased the car back and looks like restoring it back to how it was.......Thanks for great photos.....regards, Tony Rutherford.[/QUOTE]
Tony
Caught up with Parksey last weekend at Manfield, (10th/11th/12th Nov.) he was going to look at Marina on Monday. Not got it yet.
A bit older -
This 1956 pic (dad's) at Mallory Park was published on another website some time ago. Eventually, we were able to establish the date but I never knew the name of the car as I didn't have a programme.
Out of the blue, yesterday, I received a request from the owner of the car in a later form. I mistakenly thought this was a Tojeiro. Anyone KNOW as opposed to guessing what it is/was?
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Dad used his own Leica at Shelsey (I haven't found the negs yet either) and handed me a 40 year old camera containing 30 year old film. No wonder this heavily cropped image is a bit rough. Is this an Elva? I can't see the race number but I think I may have a programme somewhere.
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Even in 1965 (approximate date) the number of older cars around before they were treasured shows up well here. Taken at our front gate and the garage in the back ground was where dad first met my Mum, when she wheeled her pushbike in and dad inflated the tyres for her. Aaah!
Garage was later the base for Roy's buses (I could tell plenty of stories about those...), then a Volvo dealership and has now been demolished and rebuilt as flats.
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Last pic is interesting on three counts. Firstly, I used a borrowed camera and the first time I'd even had access to anything with anything other than a standard lens.
Secondly, he used Fuji film - which I decided was terrible compared to Kodak (colour) and Ilford (B & W).
Thirdly, this was the only time I saw Tony Brise racing - and he also demonstrated Graham Hill's F1 car at the meeting. Can you imagine any current F1 car doing three laps of a 1.35 mile track at a national meeting today?
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Ray is this the car you have shown above. it is interesting that Reg Bicknell is also listed as driving a Tojeiro at one stage.
Graeme
Top marks Graeme! Apparently it only ran for a season or so with that bodywork and didn't handle too well. Judging by the two pics, it also had a repaint. Interesting that it also ran with a 5 speed gearbox.
I just love these obscure cars and specials - probably why the VCC events are so interesting, as building a special today appears to be a far more difficult exercise than it used to be. Maybe I should just call mine "The Magneight Special" as opposed to "Mon ZA 8"?
No prizes for naming any of these either...
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Well spotted. It does look like a Birrana wheel.
Dale.
I'll have to dig out the race programme.
Just spent far too much time listing all the negative films on a spreadsheet in date order. Over 400... I don't really relish now going through frame by frame to write up the subjects, but I will eventually. Found a load more to scan, but scanning is so slow...
Cataloguing the slides is less easy as they tend to be currently stored by car make and not by date. At least with the digital pics now, it is all so simple to find out the info, even to which camera and what settings were used, but I haven't yet tripped over a way of cataloguing all that info into a spreadsheet.
To keep you guessing... I wonder if anyone can name all the cars shown in this Mallory pic.
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Yes, a V12....
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And this montage is on our gymnasium wall - no doubt many of you will recognise the originals. I apologise for any copyright issues but I have no way of knowing who took them.
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A couple I took at last months Historic/VCC meeting
No.12's the one you should have concentrated on...
David, I do have photos of Richards car, equal detail, but how many on here would have interest (apart from you and me and a very few others). He won a race in it too after a very long resto.
Shelsey again - 1965
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The BRM at Curborough. I still can't get over why someone would fire up a V12 F1 car for a 900 yard sprint, just for a maximum of 5 runs per day...
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Mallory Park paddock...
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Super Saloons - the crowd favourite in the UK just as here. The main rule there though was that engine and gearbox had to remain in the original location.
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I'm going to take a stab at Kim Mather and Tom Belso for photos 2 and 3.
Whenuapai 1993
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Goodwood Festival 2004. If the British Police had cars like that instead of our local Standard Ensigns, I might have been persuaded to stick to an earlier career ambition...
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I never tired of visiting the Donington Collection from its opening - until 2012, when reception couldn't even supply a list of what cars were still there. Sorry Mr Wheatcroft, I am not interested in WW2 Miltary vehicles. So many iconic cars have been moved on so it is a shadow of what it once was, though still interesting for a first time visitor.
These two were taken 2004 just weeks after acquiring my first decent compact digital camera. I say decent, because the very first one (1996) was probably the first true compact camera sold to the general public (Casio) - but the picture quality was rubbish and the 4 x AA batteries seemed to last about 15 minutes.
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No idea what happened here. Pics reloaded later.
When I click on your last links Ray I get an "invalid attachment" message.
Why fire up the BRM, because you can!
H'mmm.
This was the full grid for a restart... (Alfetta on the right.) Not exactly a feast for the spectators.
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No doubt as a tall person, this car probably wouldn't really be my first choice!
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John Holmes well campaigned Lotus 18 has a slight hiccup.
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Shambles of a start at Monaco 2012 where some drivers obviously didn't understand the start light procedure, resulting in two wheels knocked askew. The McLaren was at fault. Frank Sytner the innocent one.