Originally Posted by
stubuchanan
Rex J Flowers would appear to be still amongst the living. His name appears in the updated 2014 electoral roll for the Mana electorate. According to emails I had from the late Dave McKinney a few years ago, Rex retired from racing to run the family firm, Flowers Transport, after the death of his father around 1965. His fairly fraught 1965 Tasman season with the 2.5 Lola probably had a bearing on his career aims too.
NZ Classic Car magazine has had articles on a number of NZ Tasman drivers over the last few years - Dawson, Riley, Marwood, Levis, Smith, Francevic, Dene Hollier and probably a few more as well. Somewhere I've probably got most of them.
Stu Buchanan