Steve H- I think you have that Nov 1971 meeting right.
NZ competition against the Aussies were John Riley- Mustang, Rod Coppins- Camaro, Dexter Dunlop- Mustang and Jim Carlyle- Monaro.
Any body got results from this Trans-Tasman clash?
So Fahey and Dawson were in Australia at this time? I remember about this time Mrs Dawson writing to Motorman saying Red had not blown a motor as reported , just oiled the plugs.
Always liked Moffatt in Coke colours- Alan Boyles Mini and Viva never looked as hot.
Last edited by John McKechnie; 07-03-2013 at 12:58 AM.
There were three races at that November Puke event; two were scratch races, the other a handicap. Moffat won both the scratch races from Geoghegan. Their main opposition was Rod Coppins in the Camaro, but he blew a head gasket while leading the first race, and although he crossed the line in 3rd, he was out for the rest of the event. The only other real opposition was John Riley in the ex-Fahey Mustang, but he wasn't really on the pace of the two Aussie cars in the first race, then his diff failed in the second. But after a big effort to fix the diff between races, he did manage to win the handicap from Geoghegan and Jim Richards in his production GTHO.
Other than Coppins and Riley, there was really no other opposition. The field was made up of the 4.2 litre cars of Alan Boyle, Don Halliday, Peter Sundberg etc. Fahey (Escort) and Dennis Marwood (Camaro) were in Australia. I'm not sure why Dawson wasn't there, it might be that he'd sold the Mustang by that stage, as he would have been nearly finished building up his new Camaro.
There was no mention of either Dunlop or Carlyle in the race review, but they might have been there somewhere but just further down the field?
Unfortunately this wasn't a classic Trans-Tasman battle.
Steve H- you are to congratulated for finding the answers and posting them so quickly to help out us working guys as we have our lunch break- better service than at many fast food outlets.
Last edited by John McKechnie; 07-03-2013 at 01:46 AM.
Ha ha ha, thanks John.
Geeeeees John & Steve , are you both transcending into the 5th Dimension & dragging this out of the ether...... perhaps you are both doing TM [like me ] lol
Here are some photos of most of the peoples cars who promised to be at the first meeting.
Sorry about all the different sizes but this site wouldn't let me put them on any different ( that's just Dumb !!)
Last edited by George Sheweiry; 07-03-2013 at 06:49 AM.
Those appear to be the actual size of the images George, not the site doing weird things to their sizes.
Nope, I'm afraid not Steve, for instance the Roger Davis Torana I had to decrease to 1/8 of its size to fit on!
I sent this pic to George a few years ago.....pic courtesy of Perry Drury in Launceston Tas
It looked the goods then and I seen some of it recently at HD ? and it still is the Bees Knees.
Here is another Perry Drury pic......
Last edited by Ellis; 07-03-2013 at 09:44 AM. Reason: add pic
Hopefully Roger has a good size photo of this car, it is a neat thing, all built by them. Be great to see it againOriginally Posted by George Sheweiry
George, you're reducing the image dimensions to get them to fit when you should be reducing the image file sizes. That way you can make the dimensions as large as you like, within reason. All discussion forums have image file size limits, as each owner of the forum (me, in this case) has to pay for a hosting package. Also, if the image file sizes get too large, the pages take forever to load and people get frustrated.
Because The Roaring Season is image heavy with lots of photo collections etc, I've made the maximum image size a lot larger than most forums. Most will have a maximum of 95 - 120kb, The Roaring Season is 170kb.
You can email the images to me and I'll resize them for you to fit, without loss of dimension size, or alternatively, use an image hosting site, such as Imageshack or Tinypic.
Wow, that is cool!They are admired world wide...even in a shed close by in Tassie
That is an awesome story Steve! But I reckon, even if you did buy the Sidchrome, you'd probably still have regrets, because eventually you would have sold it to buy something quicker eventually?
Apparently, according to jandals, when the car arrived back in NZ it went to Trevor Mcleans workshop at Takanini where he and jandals checked it out as Trevor was interested in buying it but after looking it over he decided against it. Anyway one thing is for sure it wont be a "trailer Queen" in my hands! Yes historic racing cars are worth a lot of money but I just cant see the point in owning a historic racer just to be able to say that you own it and bask in its former glory poncing around at shows or race events, cause people want to see and hear those old Big bangers snarling around the race track. Those people are just depriving us of seeing these neat old cars doing what they were built for and should sell them to someone who will use them accordingly. " oh no its too nice to race" !!! and all the other excuses, those people are either too tight or haven't got the balls to race them. This new race series is the cheapest form of racing of these types of cars you could possibly do. We will all go out there and give it our best shot but at the same time look after these neat old cars and there will still be the after race banter of, well I nearly had you coming out of the sweeper! or wow you got me under brakes but I got you back on the straight! You guys who have been there you know what I am talking about. Just the great comradery and excitement of manhandling a fiery beast around the track in close combat and then coming in to shoot the shit at the end of the day. Nine weeks to go!! can't wait!!
George, may be we can get a big old water truck and do the track for the second race so little fellas can tickle you big bullies up a little.
loved that one at Bay Park years back when you had just got the Stang and it rained, boy that was fun, your arms were like a bungy cord (one way then quick back the other) going down the straight. Noticed over time your right foot became alot better co-ordinated with the movement of the car.
Good times alright. Have you organized a group fridge.
Better still Rod, take the circus to Waikaraka Park. You know how to navigate the track in a water truck.
People will be more worried about the walls than the other cars. Graham Addis, Barry Algie, you and others all know the track.
What breed was Grizz, he looks so close to my Bear?
George- " oh no its too nice to race" !!- I got asked the other day when I take the Monaro to a Concourse event , how will it score on the clipboard?
Wrong person, wrong car.
Hell, I am just trying to patch up an old real rusty race car to get it back on the track, its natural habitat.
Well yes they were good times, but what i think some people cant get their heads around is that now there is going to be more good times. So get to work John, Rod and the rest of you boys putting your cars back together cause we're about to put the smiles back on your faces!!!
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