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Matamata Street races 1965 - Saloons - the John " Larry " Lawton photos.
Photos from J L Lawton's vast archives as mentioned in the previous post.
All from 1965. the 20th March event, and the Last One.
A pair of Minis led by Tony Gilbertson, not sure of 3rd and 4th cars.
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Humber Zephyr * [ see note ] of Frank Radisich leads a mixed bunch in including the Zephyr Corvette and the Morrari, an Anglia and Chev Coupe in the middle
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Humbers of Ross McCallum and G Harvey [ Graeme Harvey ? - thought he had a Holden that raced there ? ]
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Anglia of Warren Reid - where is he heading ? he has spun !! - and Mini T Parker
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The Big Boys,
Colin Lumsden De Soto, Jennings in the 6 litre Fiat, Chev Coupe and Garth Souness in the Morrari - Corvette powered
- in 1964 Garth ran the early 1930's Ford Coupe - with Chev OHV V8 power.
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The 1965 Programme Cover.
Looking for the entry lists for many of the races - especially Saloons,- have the Sports Cars and a handwritten list from the programme as the page Event - race 13 was blank apart from listing the name of the Race - The Festival Feature race for " Formula Libre Racing Cars and Sports Racing Cars ".
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* Note ; Had Humber Jaguar in the notes but according to the entry list the Radisich Humber 80 had a cc rating of 2553 - the size of a Mark 2 and Mark 3 Zephyr engine. The Humber was Zephyr powered prior to the Jaguar Motor.
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Matamata Street races 1964 -65 a photo from 1965.
Another photo has emerged from Matamata 1965. A Terry Marshall photo - this seems to be a copy of a copy.
Rod Coppins in the Team Molyslip colours - the Zephyr Corvette - with stack pipes, being chased by Brian Innes in his Morris Cooper S a 1275/1293 cc machine.
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Another photo of the Brian Innes Cooper S and a Zephyr - light colour but is it the Zephyr Corvette.??
The wheels look right, and in one race Innes beat Rod Coppins coming third to Coppins 4th place.
- this from a montage of photos that appeared in a Newspaper at the time - a double page spread.
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Results from the Days Racing - posted before. Brian Innes gets a couple of mentions ;
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Matamata 1965 - More John Larry Lawton photos.
A few more of J L Lawtons pictures from Matamata 1965.
I inadvertently lost some of the details and do not have the entry lists for Races 3 and 4 which should be of the Saloon Allcomers 1000 cc to 2100 cc. Have the 0 - 1000 Race 1, and 2100 and over Race 6
Chevrolet in the bales - hard to see.
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Jim Boyd, Lycoming leading a single seater, could be the " Formula Libre Racing and Sports Car race - Race 5, or a later event.
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Humber 80 #98 - or is it a Hillman Minx ?
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Rod Coppins Zephyr Corvette, leads Brian Innes - Mini Cooper S..
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Does anyone have the Races 3 and 4 Entry Lists that they could post here or PM with details,
Cheers
Roger
Another 3 photos to come from this set..
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Matamata 1965 - More John Larry Lawton photos. the last 3..
Humber 80 - a 3 wheeler and a 44 gallon drum takes a hit !!. Can't quite read the Race Number.
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This looks like a full view of the same photo !! complete with spectator heads
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Anglia - Jack Nazer ? ahead of Garth Souness in the Morrari [ spelling ]
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Frank Radisich was entered in his Humber 80 -Zephyr Race #90 at 2553 cc - before it became the Humber - Jaguar..
That is all for the moment.
Will see if I can find the details.
Thanks to " Oldfart " for asking the question and starting this thread..
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Matamata 1965 and more recently ..
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Steve Holmes
How many years did they run it for Rhys? I don't think it was on the championship trail so didn't get the media coverage that other events did. There are a couple of great photos floating about of Red Dawson in his Willys coupe and Garth Souness in the Morrari from Matamata.
" I believe it ran for 2 years. The old man was Town Clerk there. There were plenty of articles and photos in Motorman, Almost all the "names" took part with every class imaginable. "
Continuing the story. I noted that some photos of Matamata had appeared on others thread some time ago.
At the risk of " repeating " the photos, thought I would bring a couple together that came from Milan Fistonic vast collection.
One from 1965 and one more recent.
The Events were as is now well known held in 1964 and 1965 ..
Milan notes with the photo ;- as written in 2016 on the Rhys Nolan photos thread ..
" This is from 1965 and was taken at the corner of Tamihana and Rata Streets. "
" John Richards in the locally built Lotus 15 replica followed by Bill Caldwell's Lola which is being monstered by Donelly's HWM- Thunderbird.
Well if all the Chev-engined cars were powered by Corvettes then the Ford engine must have been a Thunderbird! "
Tui - Yeah Right ..
Was Donnelly trying to merge #14 with #114 .. The HWM was looking pretty scruffy even before this " Accident " ..
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The more recent photo - 2016 Matamata - the same location. Same house in the background, has had some shutters added to the windows ..
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Matamata 1965 On the startline smiling
The Man in the middle Dene Hollier in the Lotus is smiling before the start.
Front row of the grid with John(ny) Riley Lotus Climax, Dene Hollier Lotus and Graeme Lawrence Brabham Twincam [ Ford ]. photo from Allan Dick - Classic Autonews archives.
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Riley won both the Festival Road Race - the feature race and the Formula Libre Race.
In the latter race they finished Riley, Hollier, Lawrence - as they are in the picture
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