Great Photos Nigel. The little two seater sports car is I believe the Cooper MG. I havent seen it out for some time. Lovely little car it has that Etceterini look of an Italian Fiat Special of the fifties.
Great Photos Nigel. The little two seater sports car is I believe the Cooper MG. I havent seen it out for some time. Lovely little car it has that Etceterini look of an Italian Fiat Special of the fifties.
Thanls GeeBeeNZ
Here's a few more shots of the Central Muscle Cars at Taupo last
Easter
Nigel, these are fantastic! Oran Park was considered the birthplace of Sports Sedans, and raced here for many years before they were officially recognised by CAMS for 1973. I think they went by the name Sports Racing Closed or something similar before the Sports Sedan tag was applied. By 1973, Sports Sedans were the biggest thing in Aussie motorsport. more popular than both Touring Cars and F5000. Grace Bros and Marlboro waded in with huge prize money for Sports Sedan series' at both Oran Park and Calder Park. But it was these cars which started it all. They were cheap and exciting.
The mobile dunny is priceless! I guess he had to corner gently, or else a turd may break loose!
Steve, you may find it was jammed in turd gear on the dunny grid so thats why it was slow away.
Bogged on the startline with a dodgy crutch.
....I heard they couldn't sell the dam thing till the 'paper work' was done!!!!!!.....
Last edited by thunder427; 11-02-2011 at 12:16 PM.
Pretty sure post 306 shows Les Parkinson in the C type replica. Used to race round a bit with Les in the good old days of the Jaguar Drivers Club. He hasn't been well for some time but think he still owns the car.
awesome shots that bring back many memories. The mobile throne may be Rod Hatfield from the Castlemaine Rod Shop. I vaguely remember reading somewhere that he built one back in the day.
Those shots from Pukekohe at the 85 Nissan Mobil are remarkable as I have almost identically placed shots of some of the same cars lol We must have been so close to meeting way back then.
Tony, that was the era of the wild and whacky show cars, inspired by the earlier works of Ed Roth. The cars usually weren't even usable, they were just rolled in and out of trailers at car shows around the country. It reached its peak in the late '60s and early '70s and some of the creations did appear to be inspired by some of the drugs that were available at the time!
Not wrong. Seen a few starting to creep back in here now. Rod is still at it as well.
Originally Posted by Steve Holmes
Yep thats true, he is too.
The first shot was taken at Oran Park in the early 70's and all the others were taken at Pukekohe
Last edited by nigel watts; 12-10-2011 at 09:15 AM.
Nigel
This has probably been said before, but I am new to this site, this has got to be the best collection of Motor Racing photos I have ever seen.
For you to share them is just awesome.
By chance you wouldn't have any from Oran Park or Amaroo Park of the Mini Sports Sedan Series ?
Thanks Again
Ian
Lovely shot of John Surtees. Thanks for the great memories Nigel.
+ lots!
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