OK folks it is time for a change of scenery.
You have 10 weeks to arrange to join us for the best show in the West.
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OK folks it is time for a change of scenery.
You have 10 weeks to arrange to join us for the best show in the West.
I look forward to seeing you here.
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Check this site for all the info.
http://www.mazdaraceway.com/rolex-mo...sports-reunion
When: August 18-21, 2016
Featured Marque: BMW – Celebrating its 100th Anniversary
Race Groups:
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
Pre-1940 Sports Racing and Touring and 1927 – 1951 Racing
1955 – 1962 GT Cars
1955 – 1961 Sports Racing over 2000cc
1973 – 1981 FIA, IMSA, GT, GTX, AAGT, GTU
1963 – 1968 USRRC & Can-Am
1970 – 1984 Sports Racing under 2100cc
1966 – 1972 Trans-Am
1968 – 1974 Can-Am (50th anniversary celebration)
Thursday, Friday & Sunday
1947 – 1955 Sports Racing and GT
1961 – 1966 GT under 2500cc
1955 – 1961 Sports Racing under 2000cc
1963 – 1973 FIA Manufacturers Championship
1963 – 1966 GT over 2500cc
1981 – 1991 FIA Manufacturers Championship; IMSA GTO/GTP
1967 – 1984 Formula One
( Ken Hyndman )
Ken, on my wish list, not this year though.. enjoy and post plenty of photos ..
Was there last in 1982 a long time ago..
This event is on sooner than that was there in 1982 too !!
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Here is the poster for the 50th Anniversary of the All British Field Meet.
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Los Olivos is almost exactly 1/2 way from LAX to Laguna Seca raceway time wise.
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It is a good place to stop and water the horses !
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( Ken Hyndman )
I first went to this area on our honeymoon and although I will not show those photos I will say that it was hard to imagine cars racing around the Pebble Beach circuit that is a few miles from Laguna Seca out by the Pacific Ocean.
From 1950 to 1956 the racing was around this dangerous circuit lined with trees and a few hay bales and was last used when driver Ernie McAfee crashed his Ferrari into a tree and died instantly in 1956.
This was the circuit where Phil Hill first displayed his skills also along with Carroll Shelby and Dan Gurney etc..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXMkn4EmlKQ
(Ken Hyndman )
Ken, that reminds me of westwood in BC
Roger,
I may have to use the horses. The Cooper is suddenly burning oil. (I have to drive it at night !) I am getting too old to tear into it at the moment and my CEO is directing my energy in other directions.
I may be standing out by the road to hitch a ride north in August !
(That is why I am throwing in the hints with a map etc. )
Cheers, Ken H
928,
You are correct and you also reminded me that I had visited that track back in 1972 on the way to England, so last night I rummaged through some old travel slides and found some of Westwood that I will share in the next few days.
p.s. Did you go to the track ?
Here is one scrapbook photo from 1968 at Westwood.
June 23 1968. Players Pacific Sports Car race.
John Cordts, the driver of the McLaren Mk1, is standing under the tree explaining to the car owner the damage sustained while he was battling for the lead !
Don Jensen passes by in his interesting looking Burnett Special.
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( Ken Hyndman..more Westwood photos soon)
Ken,
yes, I went to westwood when I lived just down the road. would have been around the same time as you were there
928,
Back to the small world department.
We arrived in Vancouver (I was with a Morrinsville schoolmate) in July 1972. A former Morrinsville friend picked us up and showed us around the big city and told us that Greg Tordoff's sister married a Canadian named Wray Nixon who raced a team of Mini Coopers at Westwood race circuit. We met Wray and he put us to work getting the cars ready for the weekend meet. He was a lot of fun and well known at Westwood.
Have you heard of him ?
Greg Tordoff was the excellent mechanic that had a garage in Morrinsville and was a great help to Spinner Black and did work on the Holden Monaro that John McKecknie is beautifully restoring back to life. He also has a brother Julian who had an excellent body shop in Hamilton. A talented family.
It is a small world indeed.
Ken H. (Been a delay in slide to prints process. Sorry )
Ken, you have a great time and will catch you
Sometimes I go to these races and not realize the history of some of the cars that compete in these historic events.
Such was the case of this blue 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302. Chassis # 9FG2R112073.Driven now by Don Dimitriadis.
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( Ken Hyndman photo )
This was the first Trans Am Boss 302 Mustang prepared by the Ford factory racing division of Kar Kraft. Even though it was driven by Dan Gurney, Peter Revson and Horst Kwech during 1969, it did not get off to a great start as during it's 2nd race at St. Jovite in Canada,
Kwech and Revson both spun on oil left when George Follmer's Boss 302 engine blew and they all slammed into each other as Penske's Camaro driven by Mark Donohue went by to win ! It was an expensive day for the Ford Boss 302 team.
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( Scrapbook )
Poor old 9FG2R112073 also suffered a damaged roof when it was lifted off the heap of Mustangs.
Gee, I wonder why the roof was so weak !
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( KJH scrapbook )
(Ken Hyndman )
Sorry folks that you missed out on this E Bay bargain in 2010.
http://ls1tech.com/forums/automotive...m-racecar.html
This is how it looked in August 2015.
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Indeed, a very special car. These photos were sent to me by Randy Hernandez, the son of Fran Hernandez. Fran headed up Fords racing operations in the 1960s. The car you've posted above is the prototype for the 1969 factory racing Mustangs. Its a work of art.
This is the car freshly completed and still at Kar-Kraft. These photos were taken in December 1968. Note its fitted with the 1968 American Racing wheels, with the different Lincoln front hubs. At the start of the 1969 Trans-Am season, the factory Ford teams had switched to the latest American Racing 200-S magnesium wheels, but these suffered a couple of failures early on. AM then reproduced them as a 6-spoke wheel, but by the stage most had switched to the 8-spoke Minilites, which is what the car still wears today.
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Another Mustang at Monterey will be Bill Ockerlund in his 1968 Shelby Mustang.
Again I did not know the story behind the Ford engine that preceded the Boss 302 which was the "tunnel port 302" engine, until I had read this.
http://www.hotrod.com/features/histo...nnel-port-302/
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(Ken Hyndman )
Terry,
This is the listed drivers for this car;
1968 Ford Mustang #2 - Originally driven by Parnelli Jones, Dan Gurney, Horst Kweck, David Pearson, & Alan Moffat
Dale,
Perhaps we will have to have a chat to Bill and remind him that what happens in New Zealand Stays in New Zealand !
Bill's a great guy and luvs the HTA group!! Chad Raynal with the yellow 69 Camaro has been doing a bit of work for him in recent times, Chad(via Bruce Thompson) came down to NZ for the Festival 2011 so there is quite a circle between us, the Aussie's and the USA historic racers.
Unfortunately these days in this much smaller world not all will stay in NZ, I just send two Mustangs back to the USA, a 70 Boss 429 and 67 GT500 Shelby, both got sold for way more than they would have here in NZ and just recently a very nice restored 70 Mach 1 428 SCJ 4 speed car got shipped back and sold also, times are a changing but kiwis just wont step up and pay the real $$$ so more of this will happen.
Looking forward to Monterey this year, 50 years of TA and CanAm, yeehar :)
Dale M
Dale,
You are on to something when you see this at R.M. Sotheby's Amelia Island Auction. March 12, 2016.
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I have to admit I got into this a few years ago. I bought a 1973 Mini 850 at a 2001 Papamoa garage sale for $ 200 U.S. got it through a W.O.F. and drove it for a year including teaching my son to shift gears ("hockey stick" style. Shipped back to LA (2003) in a container filled with other Minis (for $ 500 U.S.) and delivered to our home by a friend who just took a plate of Judy's cookies for a payment.
I drove it for a month, got scared with the RHD over here and sold it for ($ 5000 U.S.) I do not think I could get away with doing that now. ( I will not go into the other car deals where I have lost money !)
(Ken Hyndman )
Ken- its only when you sell that you can lose money.
Right John,
It proves I am/was a wrencher not a dealer !
From Papamoa NZ to Los Olivos. CA. 2003.
Here is the 1973 Mini 850 RHD on the left saying farewell to my 1962 Austin Mini Cooper before leaving us into the unknown and I have not seen it since.
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Well folks, the Laguna Seca Rolex Reunion is now less than a month away.
Here is a 2013 clip of some the Trans-Am cars and drivers that will be at Monterey.
This is at the Watkins Glen course near New York and I think it is on the original full circuit.
It has some good sights and sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r87bpzK21LA
(Ken Hyndman )
Hey, if any of you out there in TRS land are coming over for this event I plan to be there on Saturday August 20th and it would be great to meet any of you. I can not promise you much but if it works out I will do my best to introduce you to Brian Redman and Derek Bell.
Just be near the gate to the start / finish line at Noon on Saturday. OK ?
Right about where this Greenwood Corvette is coming in.
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(Ken Hyndman )
Well folks it is almost time for Monterey.
This is a very good description from "Vintage Motorsports" magazine.
" Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion Opens in Two Weeks
Monterey, CA -- Just 14 days remain until the green flag waves the start of the seventh edition of this event at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. From prewar to the 1980s, each of the 550 authentic race cars will bring specific history to the track Aug 18-21.
Among the numerous highlights of this year's event is the golden anniversary of the Canadian-American Challenge Cup, marked by a field of Lolas, Shadows, McLarens, Porsches and others in two separate grids of historic cars that competed in the original series. The first group includes USRRC and Can-Am cars that raced between 1963 and 1968, with the big bore Can-Am group featuring racers from 1968-1974.
Many of the cars can trace their roots back to then-called Laguna Seca Raceway. One car in particular is returning to where it took the checkered flag to win the second annual Can-Am race.
The McLaren M6A-1 was driven to victory by its namesake, Bruce McLaren, in the 1967 Monterey Grand Prix. McLaren notched an impressive victory over Jim Hall's Chapparal 2G and George Follmer's Lola T70, recording a fast lap average speed of 105 mph over the original nine-turn, 1.9-mile racing circuit.
After the 1967 season, the car was sold to Penske Racing and prepped for Mark Donohue, who then drove it to victory at the United States Road Racing Championship (USRRC) race at Laguna Seca on his way to capturing the 1968 championship. This historic McLaren is now driven by Griot's Garage founder Richard Griot.
Another example is the 1971 Group 44 Triumph TR6 that competed in the D-Production class of the Sports Car Club of America National Championships. Campaigned by Bob Tullius, the TR6 won in 1975 with John McComb behind the wheel and repeated the feat in 1976 with actor and racer Paul Newman, who had purchased the car from Tullius. The Triumph TR6 is now campaigned by Bill Warner, founder of the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.
The Trans-Am series lost factory participation for the 1975 season and the fields began to diminish, so the series allowed A-, B- and C-Production cars into the mix. An engine change from carburetors to fuel injection moved the Group 44 Triumph TR6 from D- Production to C-Production and, therefore, eligible to compete in Trans-Am. It went head-to-head with powerhouse teams running Chevrolet Corvettes and Camaros, Porsches, Ford Mustangs, Jaguars, and a Datsun 260Z. McComb was more than competitive in the TR6 and even finished third overall in the season finale at what is now known as Brainerd (MN) International Raceway.
Fifty years of Trans-Am racing will also be part of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion when 36 of the cars will pound the ground once more."
I am finding it will be a difficult time to get away for that weekend but I hope to at least be there for Saturday.
(Ken Hyndman )
One of the entrants I look forward to watching at Laguna Seca, is Chris MacAllister who has the original McLaren M8F as driven by Denis Hulme in 1971. It is always beautifully prepared and as you can see when Chris has a similar helmet to Denis on, it is not hard to drift back to the original Can Am racing days.
I can't wait to see them in action.
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(Ken Hyndman ) p.s. Will any of you be there also ?
I'll be there Ken, I'll meet you by the pit gate on Saturday.
My buddy is running his #64 yellow '69 Camaro in Historic Trans Am, he also prepares a few of the factory cars (Javelin, Penske Camaro, Shelby Mustangs the Posy Challenger etc.
Bruce.
Thanks Bruce,
I look forward to meeting you.
Ken
Dale,
Thanks for that information as I did not know that it was Duncan who had done that, although he did not get it as exactly as Denny (The Bear ) had it looking when he raced at Laguna Seca in 1971 !
(Note the extra rubber at the left front. "Move over, Denny is coming through" !).
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Dale, You will be at Laguna. Correct ?
(Ken Hyndman )
Dale,
You mention Roger's car as being a red # 51.
Is it the same McLaren 1970 M8E # 51 as I photographed at Infineon Raceway in June 2011 ?
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Ken H, I see you mentioned being at Laguna Seca on the 20th August, I gather there has been a smaller meeting 13th 14th August, which has featured some interesting stuff, Can you take pictures of Old Yella 11 and post them.. Mike Ryan tells me Ernie will be there, Mike has been at the recent weekend and posted these
.. Allard with a Buick Nailhead, like Old Yella..
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and from 1982 .. these ..
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my 34 year old photo's not so good !! oops one was supposed to be the engine,maybe later !!
Roger,
I will try to get those pics for you.
Ken H
Another of the Chris MacAllister collection that I hope is at Monterey, is the 1967 Lotus 49 # R2 that was driven by Jim Clark and prepared by NZ mechanic, Alan McCall at that time. It has been beautifully restored as told in this interesting article.
http://trackthoughts.com/2011/12/13/...otus-49-cn-r2/
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