Hi ERC, thats a really nice picture of your early 1964 home track layout. Would it be possible if you could send a copy of that image to my e-mail mairangiman@hotmail.com, so I could add it to my...
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Hi ERC, thats a really nice picture of your early 1964 home track layout. Would it be possible if you could send a copy of that image to my e-mail mairangiman@hotmail.com, so I could add it to my...
Hi Roger, thanks for that excerpt from Nelson Photo News, that is great and i appreciate receiving a scan of it at higher resolution. It’s a picture that conveys the scene how it was and the...
I am looking to try and track down any images people may have of early NZ Commercial Slot Car Raceways from around 1967 to 1975. I am planning to write an article on the early days of Commercial slot...
Original promotional poster for the 1969 Tasman Series. Rothmans were big sponsors in all things motorsport at this time. This poster from my collection provides the details for the Kiwi races in...
This Porsche 904 GT slot car is a pretty rare beast. It was based on an Atlas chassis and was marketed in NZ by obscure company called RSL. This car is survivor of mine which I've had since 1970. It...
This clear plastic '69 Camaro, modeled on Dennis Marwood's Rorison Racing version that came to NZ in Dec 1970, I built in 1971. It has a Mabuchi FT 26D motor which was a bit of a killer motor in the...
My blue and gold '67 Shelby Mustang. Yes it is a slot car, based on Pioneer blank slot car kit. The number 35 is hand painted and the hand ain't as steady as it was 40 years ago, but end result looks...
Hears a wrapper from a original pack of Winfield cigarettes from 1971-72. I used the other side of the packet to decorate a slot car I was running in Winfield colours during 1972.
I collected everything in the day. Cigarette advertising was king. Winfield was the last of the three Rothmans brand racing teams after Lexington and Cambridge. All rather obscure brands, when it...
Genuine Mo Carter (Canada) racing team decal I acquired from Nita Dawson, Red's widow, in the late 80's. They lived opposite a friends of mine in Redoubt Road Manukau at the time. Also acquired a few...
Great to see those wonderful pictures Milan. Amazing you still have those wonderful Revell, Cox and Russkit boxes. I don't remember there being many American slot car kits around during the years of...
Thanks fella's for all your great personal memories from the legendary first great era of slot car racing. I knew there were quite a number of tracks sprinkled around Auckland, but wasn't aware there...
I'm looking at writing a piece on the early days of Slot Car Racing in New Zealand from the 1960's and 1970's. This was the first golden age of Slot Car Racing and I was involved in it with a group...
I'm in the process of selling off my collection, I have currently on offer the following issues.
MOTORMAN:
1965 Feb, Apr, Oct
1966 Sept, Nov, Dec
1967 Jan, Mar 2x, Jun, July, Oct
1968 All...
I'm in the process of selling off my collection, I have currently on offer the following issues.
MOTORMAN:
1965 Feb, Apr, Oct
1966 Sept, Nov, Dec
1967 Jan, Mar 2x, Jun, July, Oct
1968 All...
Around 2005 I wrote a story on Red Dawson that got published in Classic Kiwi Motorsport, a limited edition publication put out by NZ Classic Car Magazine. I interviewed Nita Dawson as part of the...
"Golden Era"!, motor racing, saloons and single seaters, movie footage 1971-73, (Standard and Super 8 and some 16), most of the coverage from 1972.
Film was professionally transferred to VHS in...
Hi Tony
I really appreciate, you going to the trouble, to get me a higher quality scan of your pic of the grid at crowd with my father and brother at the April 1970 NZ Saloon championship round....
Hi Tony
I really appreciate, you going to the trouble, to get me a higher quality scan of your pic of the grid at crowd with my father and brother at the April 1970 NZ Saloon championship round....
Copied from Television NZ coverage to VHS during period 1986-1988 by seller. Recently professionally transferred to DVD format and enhanced and restored in the process. Some parts are a little grainy...
Hi Tony, this picture had very special memories for me as I am there with my father and younger brother in the photo leaning on the fence. I am 6th from left in yellow (aged 14) and my younger...
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