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Roger
On the driver list, no.28 is Warick Ashton. We had a mate of that name in our little group in the Wellington Car Club in the early '70s. He ran a Fiat 850 Sport in the '73 Heatway, then bought...

This yard was located on the corner of Kent Terrace and Elizabeth Street. Dominion Motors also had a building further along Kent Terrace near the Basin Reserve for their workshop and parts dept. with...

Some nostalgia here for us old Wellingtonians.

Fitzgerald Bros were at 197 Wakefield Steet, just along from the Taranaki Street intersection. That's the harbour in the background. I'm picking this...

The 2 black and white shots are ones I put up on TRS. Took them at the Nov.1966 Levin meeting.

Maybe Steve Twist can remember when he took the colour one of Coppins at Levin.

David Hunter

3 weeks ago my wife and I were in New York attending our daughters wedding. One of our party, a middle aged woman from Rotorua happened to mention to me in conversation that her maiden name was...

I have most of my models under glass but do like to have some in the open and always had a problem with dusting them until I acquired a brush as used by the Police when dusting for fingerprints. It...

Steve, you're right about gasping. In 1976, my wife and I were travelling around Australia and when we hit we hit Bathurst I wasn't going to miss the opportunity of getting in a few laps. The...

In reference to Lexington's "after action, satisfaction", Graham Hill was quoted as saying "personally, I get my satisfaction from the action".
I was just a young man with a sheltered upbringing at...

From my B&H programmes : in 1968 Ernie and Gary Sprague were in a Mk4 Zephyr entered by Lyons Motors Ltd
in 1969 Ernie and Leo Leonard were in a Victor 3.3...

As bry3500 correctly answers in post #76 it's the Bagnall Jaguar.

Here's some useless information: the original car was built by Rob Bagnall, father of Andrew Bagnall. I know that because the...

I checked it out one afternoon when it was sitting on a trailer at Manthel Motors ( Wellington's Holden and Chev dealers ) used car yard in Taranaki Street. It was late in the day and there were no...

Steve

It's over 19 months since the last post on this matter and I'm curious about how you've got on.
I visit TRS every day, get a lot from it and are quite prepared to put my hand in my pocket...

I'm referring to attachment 28143 - Saloon Car Handicap over 1500cc.

David

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In 1977 I bought this 1948 Riley RMB for a restoration project. Cost me $600 and other than a couple of small dents and a bit of rotten wood framing it was in pretty good order. However...

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How's this for coincidence?
Last week I asked if anyone knew about Bryan Falloon's old Anglia that I saw when it was well advanced in it's restoration. Today, I was hunting for something in...

Some years ago - might have been around 15 - I happened to be in Hamilton when a National car show was on at Mystery Creek so I went to have a look. I was wandering around in the building and came...

Graham McRae had his only start in the 500 in 1973, qualifying in 13th place, credited with 16th place and being awarded rookie of the year.
When he was out here the following summer for the Tasman...

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The 1972 Heatway Rally started from Wellington on sunday afternoon 23 April. It tiki-toured it's way up the middle of the North Island to Auckland, then across to Gisborne and down the East...

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