John Windelburn took his Lotus South for the series of races in the South Island.
He was entered in the " Motor Racing Cup " - for Sports and Racing Cars and the " Sports Car Race ".
- Both events...
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John Windelburn took his Lotus South for the series of races in the South Island.
He was entered in the " Motor Racing Cup " - for Sports and Racing Cars and the " Sports Car Race ".
- Both events...
John Windelburn celebrated his birthday recently, his 92nd Birthday I do believe.
There is a this tribute to him in the Facebook Group " Sports Sedans ".
It is an extract from the Auckland Car...
The AH has the A125 Motor and is now 4200cc, up from 3993cc, the size in an Austin Princess.
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The entry list for the Race - a couple of cars have already passed, well one you can just see...
Brett Young " faminz " in this group, has completed the restoration of the Sprite he owned many years ago and bought back - in the early 1980's it was with Phil Ganley, wife of Denis Ganley [ Howdens...
As mentioned on the Matamata thread the " Ruddspeed " 3000 raced there both years and was [ thanks to Milan's note ]
- a 4000 - the A125 engine.
The restoration is being done as the car was at...
Thanks Milan, Would like to see the Entry List - the one I have is from Myles Hicks who is restoring th car and is the 1965 event.
Myles has posted a couple of photos of how the car looks now - it...
Posted by Graham Woods on the " Old New Zealand Motor Racing " group page on Facebook - It appears to be from the Morrie Given photos in the Scott-Given Studio collection - they were photographers in...
Car has recently come up for sale and the sellers is in Malta - a long
way from its original base in the 1950s and into the 2010's - saw it at a Queensland AH Club Show in 2015.
a couple of...
Notes by Allan Dick - of AutoNews and Classic Autonews
" Front engined days. Start of the Renwick 50 and 62/63 season opener. Amon is waiting on his Scuderia Veloce Cooper to arrive, so he gives...
Looking forward to seeing more
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Cheers
Roger,
PS the " Flat to the Boards " gets a lot of use - a constant reference.
Milan, Thanks for that, and also the note about the Fleetwood Mustang and the " One Lap ".
Your archives are great - have added the above images to my Waimate archive.
I have the " Waimate 50 "...
A busy start - all 6 cylinder cars, Waimate 1964. Event 8 at 4;00 pm - photo Euan Sarginson. [ from Allan Dick -Terry Marshall archives ].
** The start of Heat Two the over two litre cars Race. -...
Like that Humber 80, with the 13 inch " Rostyle " wheels presume off a later Sunbeam Rapier or Humber Sceptre.
Nigel, I get that a lot on my new laptop .. the site is only " http " not " https " .. At least it is up and running if with a few glitches..
Cheers
Roger,
Maybe it is a Tauranga thing !!!
A South Island Racer, a couple of photos from 1963.
Practice at Renwick 1963, with Andy Buchanan in the Brabham and Dennis Marwood Humber [ probably posted before ]
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The Renwick Saloon...
The above Written by John Mckecknie on the 11th January 2018 [ 01-11-2018 in US speak ].
Never got see Ken then or even at later events, but we did meet last year when Ken H was back in NZ, for his...
April 2024 - Photos of the LIP of Dave Hotham, with the Escort Flares, and other mods, under the bonnet bigger carbs and a Hurst inline shifter on the gearbox.
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The second running of the NZ CRR at Dunedin in 1954,
1951 and 1952 was at Mairehau, near Christchurch. then in 1953 it went to Dunedin.
Notes on the Competitors Are in the programme, which Bruce...
GM 2 Chrysler 3, great photos Mr Watts. my son is a Mopar man so will love the bottom 3 in the set.
oops just realised No 3 is a Ford - Mercury Comet, should have gone to Specsavers !!
Steve, thanks from me too !!, had a few messages from " Members " and even a visitor about TRS, pleased to see it again.
Must get in and re-download a lot of my photos as did not transfer when I...
Milan,
Thanks for the details and yes Grady Thomson did run a 100S at one time - not sure which car, probably AHS3601, that was originally Black and as the recreation AHS 3601R is again.
Need to...
Just had another look at the Photo from Ken H.
behind the Lola is an Austin Healey 100S and hard left looks like the Graeme McRae special the Maserarri.
now to find out whose AH and which chassis...
The accident damage that occurred during practice - before the swap of number plates with onto NOJ393 to enter the 1953 Le Mans Race. Robert Visser archives.
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NOJ391 at another event -...
The car built by DHMC was entered at Le Mans in 1953 Race #33, it had issues and the entry was the car SPL226B which had the plate NOJ393, however, DHMC put the NOJ391 plates on the car as it had...
Garage sign from; Warrens Auto Service, 212 Lee St, Kingsland, Georgia USA - archive Ray Donovan
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