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Ray..the # 44 is the Gee Cee Ess built By George Smith .... its powered by side valve and yes it does have hydraulic brakes
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Would be most interested in some more on The Pontiac and Bob Tullius...notice the cantilever tyres on front ...something different than the old Ford and Chevy....Yawn !!!
Thanks Ken
Difference between Sams Dino body and the real Dino's were that Sams glass body actually had them molded into the glass when flopped from the mold...
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Further to Jac Mac's research I did a quick search and found a MotorSport article which might explain a few things re slicks and dates ...
M & H Drag slicks ( smooth slick surface ) had beed around...
On right of Brut Mustang is the Harry Lefoe / Neil West Hillman Imp in background...
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Didn't Art have a little car yard beside the railway bridge in South Dunedin ...I used to go there at lunch times and chat with him even have a sketch some where of his top suspension arms ,as I...
Brian Maybey of Nelson who built the BCM's
I wonder if the moulds for the Italia still exist along with a few of the other cars built around that era..Milano ect
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I do like the tyre set up on Lin's Lightweight Mini..slicks on Minilites on front and good old Dunlop Aquajet on std S rim on rear.
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Looks like Calder ,Spectators on end of back straight ,cars going into Tin Shed....If so the space behind spectators is now covered in house roof lines ..Thats progress for ya
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In the August 2012 Motorsport, Simon Taylor did one of there " Lunch With " interviews with Stuart Graham ....He was just as good on 2 wheels as on 4 .
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Looks like a young Dick Bennetts steering the car
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Whoops my finger got me in trouble again
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Here is a scan from Otago Sports Car Club mag Wheelspin April 79 of Clog's Imp at Timaru...
Sorry about condition but have hunted high and low forr slides from that era ...Dearly Departed must...
Yup Feb 65 was the race ..won by Jim Boyd
This was the first race meeting I was allowed out to ( Father wanted me to be an All Black and car racing was waste of time and money ) ...I was about 30...
I think the car at 1.08 is a Honda S800 coupw
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Even better we would love to see some pictures and see the condition it is in today
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Geez,
Baypark were a bit steep with there Admission charges ...a whole $1.oo admission and 50 cents extra for a stand seat...
This weeks Townsville Taxi Race has $75.00 general admission for...
Hi Guys ,
This is a great little tread and I have just been over it again from the start.....great cars and drivers from the era but what about other makes and other drivers ( also rans ) ,...
He amazes all of us Jim ..
Ooops...just noticed I had chopped bottom of the spec sheet which had the following on
Camshaft...BCM . full race ( which he would have done on his own cam grinder
Steering wheel ... ...
They certainly were gtrat Xmas's there , especially as a 15 year old ,watching motor racing ,discovering girlsand drinking Harleys ? beer in the sandhills at night ... then going back to aour tent in...
Wahaaaay !!
Am looking forward to some real racing cars ,getting the old senses going again ,hairs on back of neck standing up and goose bumps all over .....
Should be a great weekend ...
Who...
And there were a lot of negatives and history lost in the ODT fire many moons ago that A. Dick. had at the time