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another corner with a Morgan in the sandbank while a couple of 500cc single seaters and a Cooper go past.

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Unusual to see Railway Station Tower...

The choice of June 3rd was because it would have been a Public Holiday for the King's Birthday. It was also my mother's birthday, so when it fell on a weekday she got a day off school or work!. It...

The choice of Waiheke seems in line with Australians using Phillip Island for their early car racing. Interesting, too, that both islands have places named after seaside places in UK and Ireland....

By all accounts it was a pretty rough circuit and the mechanical carnage and accident rate was quite high. I remember hearing at the time that the organisers ran the circuit in the opposite direction...

Parked next to this ute the other day at local supermarket at Kumeu.64018

The dog was having a doze, and I guess somebody parked it there, so I figure it counts as a dozy parker. It was still...

Being picky, I know, but the "Laser" is actually a Mazda 323 2-door hatchback - same mechanicals but slightly different body treatment. I had a Ford Laser from late '80's till its demise in early...

Spelling of surname was always McLoughlin in programmes I have from 1960's. They also ventured into single-seaters a year or two later, not with much success, cars a bit long in the tooth by then -...

Mine came by post from the (?......) Bookshop in Nelson. Well written and well set out. Unlike one or two other local histories.

Stu

It gets a mention in the Auckland Motor Cycle Club history (Seventy-Five Years on Two Wheels by Dr Calum Gilmour) but only just. It was "out the back of Drury" and included unsealed roads - not...

Go back to pages 4 & 5 of this thread and you will find more about Seagrove. Back in the 1990's we had a beach place on the far side of the Manukau Harbour. A neighbour there who had a fishing cabin,...

[QUOTE=Milan Fistonic;68162]Not sure of the date - could be 1959 or 1960

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I have the same cutting. It was Sunday, December 13 1959, the day after Bruce McLaren won the United States Grand...

I have the same cutting. It was Sunday, December 13 1959, the day after Bruce McLaren won the United States Grand Prix at Sebring. Not really the day after, due to the time difference, only about 7...

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Green Valley was a road (or street course) wasn't it - cropped in something I was reading from the Auckland library system recently.

Stu

The number is actually 194. One of my 2 programmes for the December 12 1964 meeting shows the winner of the 8-lap race for the fastest 16 cars as car number 194. Souness was not listed in the...

I'm embarrassed by the kind words - if I'm trying to pick holes in Caldwell's story, I'd better be accurate myself. From about 2009 to 2012 I swapped a large number of emails with the late David...

I believe Dave Caldwell came from Glen Murray, as did Ron Roycroft and Johnny Mansel - Wairamarama is just down the road. No relation to Alastair or Bill, but Alastair might be able to invent one.
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Not a Cooper-MG is it? I saw a Green(BRG)car in a garage workshop several years ago having work done on its front brakes. I think the NZ registration docket recorded it as a 1949 MG Special, and the...

What a fascinating collection. I'm most surprised to find that the French went in for grass-track racing, even in the south where things can be a bit different. The site is mostly about events in...

Son may well be saying exactly that, but wouldn't say - he emails us with important info, like "No, I wasn't walking on London Bridge...or I've never been to Parsons Green Underground Station...." to...

I have been striking the same problem over the last 2-3 days. Not sure my knowledge or expertise is sufficient to solve it myself and I guess I will have to ask long-suffering computer-programmer son...

Obviously must be a different Ridge Road - 1950's one I went to was at Riverhead and Johnny Mansel was fastest in the Ardun Special I think. I can think of several other Ridge Roads in the Auck area....

Not criticizing in any way, obviously a labour of someone's love.

There are probably a few duplications - Ridge Road and Riverhead for example. Although Ridge Road was also referred to as Albany,...

These are fearless military people of the RNZAF Golf Club, Whenuapai. They probably have right of way over military planes as well.

Stu

Possibly Renwick. There were multiple signposts near the hairpin. Looks too rural to be anywhere else.

Stu

In the very first picture (Coppins #141) there is a road lined with power poles, two of which are padded with hay bales. This suggests a road circuit, and the only one that comes to mind for the...