Great shot here as Frank Matich in the A50 cruises past and says gidday.
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Great shot here as Frank Matich in the A50 cruises past and says gidday.
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The picture is from the season finale for OSCA at Ruapuna in 79/80. There is an article about the racing in the May 5 1980 edition of Motoraction Jac unfortunately hit the wall at the hairpin in race 1.Quote:
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Thanks again Sean.
Couple of very early photos here of the Brent Bullivant V8 Capri. In fact, these are possibly from the cars first event. This car enjoyed a colourful career. Bullivant built it when he was still a teenager, and was just 19 years old when it first appeared in early 1975. He raced it for just over two seasons on a very limited budget, using hand-me-down parts, used tyres etc, to keep running. But the car brought him to the attention of Jim Richards, who brought him to Australia around 1978 to prepare his XC Falcon hardtop Sports Sedan.
Brent returned to NZ in 1979 to race the Capri in the Open Saloon Car series, doing double-duty as he was also there to prep JRs Falcon. He sold the Capri to Graham Baker in around 1980/81, who took it to the South Island, but because it didn't fit OSCA rules, could only compete in the Allcomer type races. At some stage during Bakers ownership, the Capri ended up being fitted with McLaren M10 wheels. Were these off the PDL Mustang? Certainly, when Steve Ross was restoring the PDL, he advertised wanting a set of M10 for the restoration.
The Capri was later owned by Bob Cullinane, then by Brian Frend, where it made a special appearance in the movie Shaker Run. Certainly a colourful car that has done many racing miles.
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Couple shots here of the Rod Coppins Camaro. These look to be from the 1969/70 season.
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Whereas this is from the following season.
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Team Cambridge pit area, at what looks like Levin, with the various tow and support vehicles behind Rodger Andersons BMW 2002.
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Couple of interesting photos of the Fahey Capri, at Manfeild. This is possibly Faheys last ever race meeting before retirement.
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Couple of nice shots here of the pretty Alan Boyle Coke Viva. This car has now been restored. Hopefully it'll make some appearances this season.
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[QUOTE=Steve Holmes;21399]Couple of nice shots here of the pretty Alan Boyle Coke Viva. This car has now been restored. Hopefully it'll make some appearances this season.
Will look forward to seeing the Boyle Viva.....Sorry to be a little off track, I have some photos of the Boyle Viva, but Im not sure where to post them?
I'd love to see those. You had a really fantastic thread running on here with the collection of slides you have, why not keep posting there? I'd love to see that thread resurrected: http://www.theroaringseason.com/show...-s-at-Pukekohe
Saloon car action at Bay Park. In shot are Dennis Marwood, Brian Foley, Rod Coppins, Wayne Fuller, John Riley, Reg Cook and Dexter Dunlop. Who is driving the blue Anglia?
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Castrol GTX production racing, including Leo Leonard, leading (I think?) Kerry Grant, Jim Richards, Tim Bailey. Who is driving the other Toranas? Would one of these be Robbie Francevic, given he switched from a GTHO to XU1? Also looks like Richard Brocklehurst towards the rear of shot.
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Spot the difference in the Camaro- number changed, also colour of round was red, later black. Early colour of word Cambridge is gold, later is white
Early photo shows no quarter vent, later has quarter vent on doors.
Has there been door replacements here.
Yep, well spotted John. As well as the subtle colour changes, there doors also changed. This car was a 1967 RS/SS, but by the 1969/70 season it had 1968 doors with no quarter-windows. Also, the grill changed, from the hidden headlight RS, to a standard 68 then back to RS. But then in the 1972 season when it was painted gold, it had the 67 doors and RS nose back on.
Note also that close up, it was a pretty rough car. These cars really took a lot of punishment.
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Isn't it Bob Homewood ?
Could the yellow XU1 be Ray Olenius?
Steve- Bruce and I have been examining them,you are correct on the dings/long crease on the bottom of the doors.Also the pix show severe gravel rash on the front lower panel- as the drivers were such gentlemen, not stock car drivers,it must have always a problem getting these cars on and off trailers.
Hi Steve, I don't think the track is Baypark - I don't remember any dirt track outside of the sealed circuit. Could it be Levin ??Quote:
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Mike John told me that they had a whoopsie with the overhauled engine and that it had to come out for repair. Hopefully we will see the car on track very soon. Seems like a lot of people want to see the car in action again.
It has always intrigued me why the doors and grill would have been changed, What was to be gained. Then changing back again.
Perplexing.
Bruce.
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Bruce, it`s probably as a result of the Camaro that Rod ran in the Glenvale race, and then the car Spinner Black built, as per the photos I showed you a while back. And I think you`ll find Rod ran number 41 - where have you seen that number lately Bruce - instead of 141 because John Riley still had 141 on Rods old Mustang. The following year, as in the last photo, Rod had 141 and John had 222.
Bruce, in fact if you really, really , really want to get into this, the cut off is what I said on the roundal the number goes on, Red for early , black for later.Early has 41, later has 141. However there is an in between photo which shows the red roundal with a very small 1 just squeezed on. If you have nothing better to do Bruce , you could collect all the photos from all the threads and start a thread just on numbers 41, and 141 .Somewhere out there , there is a worker who knows the answer and is laughing at all this ceremony.
Yeah, I reckon it's Levin too. The start straight runs east-west, Bay Park ran north-south. Plus the infield of the start straight at Bay Park is the pits and pit apron, in the pic there's just flat infield. Still a good wee pic, though !Quote:
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Well spotted and indeed I believe the track is LevinQuote:
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I wondered if the Glenvale car was involved in some way. Changing the front fenders is quicker that swapping doors and grill.
Rod would have kept his 141 i'd have thought. (his partner John Ward was 121)
You'd better live up to the 41 Noisy. Those are big boots to fill.
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John, I think a Rod Coppins thread is a great idea. We can post and compare pics and pay homage to a great Kiwi racer. He ran some neat cars over his time. Who's first ?
Bruce.
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I know of a neat car that I saw him driving -had No. 1 on it. Any guesses?
After some further thought, there are many legends, not just in saloons, but other groups out there and to run with just one is not the fairest to our heritage.Further to this it came to me-
Our overseer , censor and erstwhile thread-ender Steve Holmes could make this an Almanac (Stevemanac?) with alphabetical listings on both cars and drivers Aussie has one , we dont. Heres our opportunity.
We can have drivers on thread, cars on another threads with a cross over to link them
An excellent idea. Steve can you think of a suitable format ?
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Those are all great shots. I will attempt a Rod Coppins thread later today if time permits.
Cheers,
Bruce.
Bruce, I`ve been talking with Rods daughter Toni, and I`m organising for her and her daughter to come up from Invercargill for the first weekend of the Denny Hulme Festival, she is rapt with what is on here already about Rod, so a dedicated thread to him would be good and you can post some of my photos of him that I showed you a while back.
Mike, have you cropped the photo of John Rileys red/gold Mustang? It looks very much like my father that John is talking to at the front of the car, but my main concern is the identity of the roman sandalled, school bag carrying ( good for souvneir collecting) ginger nut in the right front of the photo. I think I know who he is..........
Thanks Mike, well spotted. I actually didn't look so closely at the track, and made my assumption on seeing Brian Foley in there. I thought he'd only raced at Bay Park and Puke. But he must have stuck around and did Levin as well.Quote:
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Steve, wouldn't the Glenvale car by a standard road car that he took off the lot for the weekend?Quote:
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I love this car.
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Heres an interesting one. The signwriting on the side says it was prepared by Trevor Crowe. Is this Crowe's own car, or just one he prepped for someone else?
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Unfortunately I haven't cropped the photo so I guess that the the young boy will remain semi anonymous unless you want to reveal all LOL Be sure that your past will catch up with you sometime.Quote:
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Great shot here of the Rod Coppins Firebird. Given there is no PDL signwriting, I assume this must be from the 1973/74 season? Or did the PDL signage disappear later in the 1972/73 season?
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I think this was just prior to the Huttons signwriting going on the car Steve. As for the Glenvale Camaro - which I`ve got a good photo of - I`ll do some enquiry over the weekend, but I vaguely recall that car in my fathers workshop, and it had been hit hard up the arse in a road accident not long after Rod raced it. If you look at the front guards when Rods car was gold, my father made up a pipe former and they semi squared the front wheel arches so Rod had more lock to lock.