The Barrie McBride Collection Part 2 Rallying

Ok so, here we have the 1972 and 1973 Heatway rallies as well as images from the 1981 Daybreaker rally from the Higgins gravel pit special stage in Palmerston North. Ok so starting with 1972 from Paeroa and from the Domain in Auckland. There is very little information to identify drivers here so any help gratefully received.

Brian Green BMW Paeroa
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Datsun Bluebird #15
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Mini #33
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Escort #56
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Escort #1?
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Ferrari Daytona at Paeroa with Reg Cook refuelling his Escort in the background
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Fiat 125T
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Reg Cook atanding at the bowser and Steve Horne is co driver at the drivers door
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Peugeot 504 #67 refuelling at Paeroa with a Mitsubishi Galant behind it
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Datsun 1600 #39
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Paeroa scene with the L&P bottle in the background and a Toyota Corolla #50 in mid picture
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Porsche 911 #22
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1973

Firstly if you have not seen it then you need to check this out

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/surv...zed-sport-1974

All these images are from the Pukekohe special stage of the 1973 Heatway

A Datsun 1200
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Colin Bond Torana XU1
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Hannu Mikkola approaches the entry to the Elbow
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Hannu Mikkola enters Elbow while looking at Dad
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Mikkola at speed
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Ford Escort #82
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Marshall and Mikkola underway in the Pukekohe special stage
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Evan Green approaches the Elbow
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Mike Marshall
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Group 2 starts
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Group 2 about to start
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Jim Richards Escort
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Colin Bond in the XU1
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Jim Richards Escort
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Paul Adams? BMW 2002
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Mike Marshall Escort
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Evan Green Monaro
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Some great photos here. I love that three wheeling Mike Marshall one. Thats really pushing an Escort. If the Fiat 125 was Trevor Tapper I believe that was a South African 125 Scorpion and not a NZ 125T. That makes it a very rare car in NZ I wonder what happened to it. An interesting Name as the Abarth badge is of course a Scorpion.

There is an interesting article on the 125T Fiats and their involvement in the B & H in a recent Classic Driver. I believe they were all yellow and seven were entered. It must have been a lap scorer's nightmare let alone the service crews.

Oh wow, these are amazing!

#2 Porche Tim Bailey

PorSche my old mate

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PorSche my old mate

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Front Porche or Back Porche, Jim you know they look the same. I used to have lisssp

Here I can be of no assistance. I was 8, and I am seen standing to the left of the foreground of the shot of the Chrysler Avenger, all I can tell you is the Hunter is a chap Bond, and the Mitsubishi Lancer I thick was Bruce Herbert

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Gee Rod how did I miss this one porche so wet needed a smile

Jim, She did a bit in the old days that car. Note all the Escorts Aye Jimmy, they knew what a Porche looked like in the mirror, Mind you can remember seeing stones coming out the back of yours occasionally. (one windscreen at Taupo thanks to Jigger and you playing hard)

I watched Jigger at Taupo in the v8 in his last yr. no one ever drove better than him that day such a good bloke.I have no doubt with these Induro. races coming up that black no 5 would be in the hunt seeing the driver enjoyed LAP after LAP and to think its just sitting there!!

i've got reg's old tc escort back in the UK now, brought it off of trademe, car looked better in the photo's than it really was, now restoring it

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by the way, would you mind if i copied the reg cook pictures, and post them in the UK, also any more history or phot's on it would be great

thanks
brett

Making a nice job of that Escort, yessirree.

now finished and on the road
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Fiat 125T
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Reg Cook atanding at the bowser and Steve Horne is co driver at the drivers door
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Peugeot 504 #67 refuelling at Paeroa with a Mitsubishi Galant behind it
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Datsun 1600 #39
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Paeroa scene with the L&P bottle in the background and a Toyota Corolla #50 in mid picture
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Porsche 911 #22
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I can give some of the names.

Car 18 Brian Green was listed as the co-driver to the owner of the car Jim Foster. I would imagine Green did most of the special stages.

Car 15 Dick Marlow and Wayne Lynch from the Manawatu Car Club.

Car 33 Peter Batten and Steve Hamilton from the Auckland Car Club.

Car 56 John Metherall and John Reid from the Eastern Southland Car Club.

Car 67 Bernard Gauzere from New Caledonia.

Car 39 Graeme Barker and Tony Baker from the Rotorua Car Club.

Car 50 Colin Taylor and 'K' Foulkes from the Wellington Car Club.

Car 22 Tim Bailey and Brian Phipps from the Auckland Car Club.

The FIAT Scorpion run by Trevor Tapper was used as the inspiration for the FIAT 125T.

Was the letter T relate to any particular modification or to T for Tapper?

That is one beautiful Escort. Great job and well done.

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Was the letter T relate to any particular modification or to T for Tapper?

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We were told at the time T for Tasman (through the Fiat dealership)

Re; the '81 Daybreaker pictures.
It is indeed Bondy in the Hunter, Graham (Chirpy) Anderson in the Civic, Shane Murland in the Chevette, Brian Green in the Escort. All of the others are familiar, they'll come to me a little later.
Is that a ginga helping pull the black RX3 a young Crunch Bennett?

We were there in a 1600. Ridiculously rough stage. Never one to complain though.