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This link re the 50th anniversary (2016) of full-face Bell Helmets is interesting:
[URL="http://amcn.com.au/editorial/8455[/URL]

Thanks, Ray and Dale.
It's a pretty little thing, as was the Lola.
Which is why, I'd thought, too, that it was a Lola copy when I first saw it in Historics, but I don't ever recall it "in era"....

I seem to recall this car racing in Australian Historics a few years back.
Sure I saw it at Lakeside in the nineties.
Any of you "dual Internationals" on here care to comment, and/or elaborate on...

Something like that.
The fuel line was 2 inch diameter and an incredible length of 11 feet, to give an extra 5 US gallons.
And also, the inflated basketball in the tank at scrutineering which...

Good to see Joe Twyman in the white Elva (Madgwick Cup) got 20 secs penalty and 3 License Points for his senseless barging attack on the yellow 23 into the chicane just before the flag. This has...

Comparing the two auto boxes, the installed version is enormous.
Must have been a huge weight penalty to drag around, as well as the slush box inefficiency.

This has been fantastic so far. Especially the really wet races.
Watched till I fell asleep last night, now re-watching the huge field of A30/35's duking it in the wet.

Thanks, Milan - that's cleared it up nicely.
Was interested in Doug's info re Attwood carrying #2 and how that tied with Attwood #1 car on the Wigram grid photo I posted, but a closer look revealed...

Rhys/Steve,
Forgot to mention how much I'm enjoying these photos, and Steve's period-evocative "scrapbook" presentation of them - very apt!
The other interesting thing I've noticed in the closer-up...

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And this from the Wigram grid that year; again the white/dark stripe helmet. Note his race # this time - 1, and. So this ties in nicely with the NZGP meeting photo in front of the racecourse...

Just enlarged this one; it's definitely #2. Driver's head attitude looks mighty like Graham Hill's, but too blurred to make out the London Rowing Club markings.
So, whose car was #1, the first photo...

If 1966 NZ GP, would be G Hill; didn't Attwood run only the remaining NZ Tasman rounds?

Hi Steve and Pete,
Further to this and Pete's following "now" photo and post #76, Pete, at least, will probably recall, that Neptune station became the Shell Wavell Heights site, and was used as the...

Here's a pic of Ash in "Scorcher" late '68/early '69)36993.
Could be him, the nose looks similar, but the hair and sideburns are much more early 70's, and I'm not a forensic scientist.
Opinions,...

"..... and things should return to normal."
You wish!

All the best for a long and happy endurance event!
Ken.

So what is this engine - a 1930's Chrysler?

The "unknown" Corolla is none other than Leonard Teale, of 'Homicide' and other stage and screen fame.

Terry,
Perhaps Ray was just being tongue-in-cheek when he described Reg as "dreadful".
After all, he was in pretty good company in regards to "drinking mates" referenced by Mr Bell; may have just...

Hi Dale, and all Reg Papps fans(?)
Not quite their "only involvement" - at the following link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Hardie-Ferodo_500, it shows they entered a VH Charger in the 1971 Bathurst...

Ray,
The Elfin, from the tape around the nose cone, looks like the ex-Bill Gates (& Frank Matich) car?

The official title, ex factory at least, was 906 Carrera Competition Coupe until "imported to Australia by Alan Hamilton. Hamilton would use the car for road races around Australia but had problems...

Given the Beechey stuff in the BJ collection, there's a famous car that ran the 58mm crossover Weber set up, which no one's picked up on, and that's the Nova. If the rocker covers are 327 style, that...

Ray,
I'll grant it's Max in #13 (the driver's Body English confirms that) but I have doubts that it's a Series Prod GT. Check the Lotus bumperettes and if you blow it up a bit, it looks like a dark...

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Terry,
The original black 4 door Geoghegan Cortina was written off at Oran Park in testing prior to the Lakeside ATCC. All the bits apparently migrated rather hurriedly into the 2 door ATCC...

If it's not John Harvey, the other likely Austin Cooper S exponent of that era was then Singapore-based ex-pat Richard Arblaster.
From memory, the number plate's about right for him.
Ken.