Photos: The Allan Porter Collection - Part 3

[Steve Holmes]

I love this shot. Circuit racing sidecar team gets set to blast down the quarter mile. Would it not have been faster without the swinger?

I wonder what time they ran?

[Steve Holmes]

Many of you will know the name Steve Hildred. Steve has raced a beautiful red HT Monaro in circuit racing for the past twenty or so years. He was also the main driving force behind the Central Muscle Cars series and the main guy to beat for years before all the really big spenders started arriving.

Long before he built the Monaro, Steve ran this wild Chevy V8 powered Viva station wagon on the quarter mile. I wonder what happened to this car? I have a very vague recollection of it being shown on tv news crashing with a later owner. Or maybe I just imagined that?

[Steve Holmes]

Neat shot of Graeme Berry and Pete Lodge.

[Steve Holmes]

Roger Murray getting some serious rear hook-up.

[Steve Holmes]

A continuation of the above photo.

[Steve Holmes]

And one more.

[Steve Holmes]

Pete Lodge in the Amco Jeans Altered getting a wheel off the ground.

[Steve Holmes]

More madness.

[Steve Holmes]

Mike Gearing.

[Steve Holmes]

Mucking in. This is the Kevin Delores Altered, having the transmission removed. Thast Kevin in the checkered shirt.

[PDJ]

I love this Mustang, owned by Brett Wilson. Where is it now?

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I read on the net somewhere that the 428 in this car came from a wrecked Shelby GT500.
Crashed in East Tamaki ? Maybe the rollbar came from the same car.

[Steve Holmes]

John Agnew and 6-banger Altered.

[Steve Holmes]

Murray Butler's mad blown MkI Cortina.

[Steve Holmes]

Fun with trucks.

[Steve Holmes]

I read on the net somewhere that the 428 in this car came from a wrecked Shelby GT500.
Crashed in East Tamaki ? Maybe the rollbar came from the same car.

Thanks Paul, great info. This car here apparently started life as a Shelby that was written off. Maybe the motor ended up in the drag car, with the rest ending its days on the speedway?

[Steve Holmes]

Graham Roberts and Hooker 3.

[Steve Holmes]

Neat view down the track.

[duncan fox]

Thanks Paul, great info. This car here apparently started life as a Shelby that was written off. Maybe the motor ended up in the drag car, with the rest ending its days on the speedway?

This was crashed at the S bend bridge in Chapel Rd by the little church. That corner was the scene of several bad accidents in the early 70's that took at least half a dozen lives, one alone took 4 (some I knew). The Shelby sat in Kaspa Motors wrecking yard in Otahuhu for some time until the remains were used for the speedway car .

[John McKechnie]

Yep, thats a fact....remember seeing it there, as I was working in Otahuhu early 70s to early 80s, and the story,
What ever happened to Mustang of Trevor Morris after its accident in Onehunga?

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks guys, really interesting story on the Mustang. Was it a GT350 or GT500?