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Timaru Trophy Road Race 4 February 1967 A bit more - including more Entry Lists
T Hargadon - The President of the South Canterbury Car Club, ( Inc ), message along with one from D R Dowell the local City Council Mayor.
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Races - the Car events, 1, 3, 4, 5, and 8 [ Races 2 and 7 were for Motor Cycles - will feature later
Race One - Event 1, the " Sprague Motors Ltd " Sports Car Race.
- like most races on the day it was over 10 Laps, 11 Miles with a Grid Start. Running 3 Classes as noted
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Event 3 - " Timaru Publicans " Saloon Car Race again running in 3 Classes up to 2000cc
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Event 4 - N.Z. Specials and Racing Cars - 2 Classes - up to 1500cc and over, with a Section for each NZ Specials and Racing Cars.
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Event 5 - " The D.R. Fillter " Saloon Car Race - 3 classes with minimum capacity 2001cc. [ spelling Fillter as on the page ]
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Event 8 - " Speedway Motors " Saloon Car Grand Final two Classes up to 2000cc and 2001cc and over.
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Will have to find photos and results to see who was running.
Other details - Officials and the 2 Motorcycle Races to follow.
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Timaru Trophy Road Race 4 February 1967 - Officials, Motorcycle Races, Lap Speed.
Timaru Trophy Road Race 4 February 1967.
List of Officials and the Race day Schedule;
South Canterbury Car Club and the South Canterbury Motor Cycle Club along with ANZCC ( Association of New Zealand Car Clubs, Inc )[ ** oops ! had just changed to MANZ - Motorsport Association of New Zealand Inc ) ] and NZACU ( New Zealand Auto Cycle Union )working together.
** see note at the bottom of the Post #402.
Even the Mayor of Waimate on the list as the SCCC Patron. .
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The Motor Cycle Races - Entry Lists Race 2 and Race 7
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Lap Speed Table for the 1.1 mile course.
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The Covers of the copy I have - quite faded - water damage, but worth keeping.
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** The front Cover of the Programme states The Event
" Promoted by the S.C. Car Club .. and the National Competition Rules of the A.N.Z.C.C. (Inc.). "
The List of Officials shows that the Stewards are
" I Ward and M F Grant, N.Z.A.C.U. L S Lester, M.A.N.Z. (Inc). "
- Must have been at the time of the change of name.
Lots of Motorsport names among the Officials - and Entrants / Drivers and even Sponsors Advertisers.
Looking for any photos from the Event, Posters, if any and Results.
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Dunedin 1984 - the first " Ransley " Riley
Bruce Pidgeon drove the Ransley Riley model 1, a Brooklands style car at the 1984 Historics meeting Race #165.
Craig Pidgeon Bruce's son who is into current Historic / Classic racing has these two pictures of Bruce and the Car on the Circuit.
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My photo of the car in the Pits.
Craig said he towed / " A " framed the Riley behind the family Fiat [ 124 Coupe ] actually a Dino 206 Coupe with the Ferrari motor, quite a rare car. correction by the current owner Craig Pidgeon, was his fathers Bruce Pidgeon racing the Riley #165 - seen in the background in this scene - my photo.
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" .. the chap in the blue overalls? "
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Allan
Can anyone identify the chap in the blue overalls?
Another fellow in Blue Overalls that day was Neil Ferguson from Waiau who ran a pale blue Austin Healey 100.
Don't think the same guy.
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The Riley photo again.
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Paritutu - 1966 and 2025 images by Alan Boyle
Not in the South Island but South of the Bombays.
Allan Boyle recently did a " road trip " by Motorcycle and took photos of the Paritutu Road course as it is now, that he has images of from 1966.
The Paritutu Road Races were held at Labour weekend in October, 1965, 1966 and final event in 1967.
The Start line;
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" Tomato " Alan's second Mini after " Purple " - his cars had great paintwork and signage - he was a Signwriter by trade.
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Where the photo was taken - the road.
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This Mini had a huge off John Fahy the driver - photo from a newspaper / magazine - Alan Boyle archives.
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Where this happened - the road / track the car had just rounded the corner.
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A very short track basically a triangle;
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More to come - a few images from Paritutu appear earlier in this thread - Posts #328 and #394 #396 and #398.
Have the Programme for 1967 - from Bruce Dyer " Spgeti " and have seen the cover of the 1966 one.
Looking for more information on all 3 events.
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Paritutu 1966 a bit more.
The Alan Boyle archives and a current photo or two;
The road where the Anglia went through the fence car #54 - " where are you ? "
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The incident ; Over it went;
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Back on its wheels, a bit bent;
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The Paritutu Mountain - " Rock " more likely in Taranaki. Photo John Larry Lawton.
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In New Plymouth the view of the real Mountain - Egmont [ Taranaki ]
Alan Boyle - his Mini - Jack Nazer Anglia and others in the foreground - 1966
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Paritutu 1967 Photos from Terry Steelo Baker - arch John L Lawton
John Larry Lawton posted more of the Terry Baker collection of photos.
These of Paritutu 1967.
Drivers names added where known [ still have to read and scan the Programme ]
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Terry's photos - the first few;
Ford Anglia 100E #66 had a 2400cc motor, was it a Zephyr ?, driver L Wilkie.
The Minisprint [ not genuine ] is #54 of D R McNeill, no details on the Triumph 2000.
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Lotus Cortina - Roy Wade
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Mini Cooper S - A M Loveridge #47
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The Kevin Greene Chev Coupe in a pale Blue;.
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More to come.
Have found a couple of pages of the Programme - Entry Lists for a few races
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Paritutu 1967 Photos from Terry Steelo Baker and some Entry Lists.
The Terry Baker photos, includes a couple of Sidecar Entrants.
Jim Richards - Anglia
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The Sidecar Combinations one on track one sitting.
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another Anglia. #49 F A Lambourn
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Race entries - Races #12, 13, 14.
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Races #15, 16.
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Alan Boyle and Ron Brown were both there in the Morris Mini / Cooper S Allan in Tomato. - they were members of the EvWeld Racing Team in 1966 too !!
Alan in #46 " Morris Cooper S 970cc " and Ron in his " Morris " Mini - modified at " 998cc "
