Originally Posted by Allan
Ken Vincent
Ken Vincent
I am in close contact with a Ken Vincent, is this the same one who went to the US and returned with a rear engine rail?
Yes with Tony McFaydin (think thats how you spell it, had blonde hair) the block layer, and can you give me contacts for Ken as I did a few things with him years back. Got photos of that Fiat doing something else which I may post.
Last edited by Rod Grimwood; 06-12-2013 at 01:17 AM.
PM sent Rod
Thanks Ross, thats it, was a clean fast car. Rod opened a few eyes with the way drove it. Be interesting to know just what did happen to it.
Have not received it for some reason, can you fire it again
Cheers
I wasn't too sure where to put these, but this will do.
I took these in the pits of 1979 B&H race at Pukekohe when Moss and Hulme raced the VW Golf.
The Tojeiro Jaguar belonged to Ken Smith at the time and Stirling Moss had a few demo laps during the day.
I'll always remember that I was taking a shot just as he was driving off, and he waited for me to shoot for a
moment until I was finished - a real professional.
Ross, talk about professional, see Peter Bruin in photos.
I can remember ,my 1st real job in about 1982,got talking to a guy next to me about cars.I wasn't too sure where to put these, but this will do.
I took these in the pits of 1979 B&H race at Pukekohe when Moss and Hulme raced the VW Golf.
The Tojeiro Jaguar belonged to Ken Smith at the time and Stirling Moss had a few demo laps during the day.
I'll always remember that I was taking a shot just as he was driving off, and he waited for me to shoot for a
moment until I was finished - a real professional.
Turns out he was the son of Ian Green ,who owned at the time the Tojeiro Jaguar #7 GNO,which is the above car?
Yes according to Doug Nye's book "Powered by Jaguar" this is the ex Frank Cantwell and later Ian Green car originally known as 7 GNO
Was this the car Brent Hawes had. If so I recall seeing it sitting for sale outside in the weather,at Speedway Motors in Timaru looking the worse for wear. I think they wanted around 1400 pounds for it. Probably 1966.
Hi guys , I have 16mm silent film ( quite a bit of it actually ) of the 1976 B&H , at least I think it's 76.
It was a very wet day - VERY wet... and Mike Hailwood and Phil Kerr were sharing a Monaro drive together.
My dad dragged my brother and I ( 10 yrs old ) around Puke all day in the pouring rain while he filmed from damn near anywhere he wanted - we even sat up in the stables for a while and watched the start and first corner mayhem as they entered the old club circuit.
Massive amounts of Chargers and Falcons etc.
I put a very short low quality piece of this film footage on you tube a while ago showing a pitstop and driver change of the Hailwood / Kerr Monaro.
They had constant brake issues with the car but apparently enjoyed themselves.
I will have this footage professionally transferred from 16mm film to DVD in the new year and anyone wanting a copy can contact me
Regards
Jeff
Last edited by Jeff; 12-12-2013 at 10:06 AM.
Here is a link to the Kevin Thomson photo thread - a few photos of the Frank Cantwell roll over from post 2.
http://www.theroaringseason.com/show...ing-well-newer
Mate sent me this photo, I have copy somewhere.
This was early 80s, Bay Park sweeper just past start line. It was damp and on slicks. Remember the start as all the big boys spun up the rears and slid from one side to the other, and the little girl got away like a bullet. Then the back straight and I can still hear George going past side ways doing big numbers, and great control shown. I had the best seat to watch as the big boys all went past wheel spinning and grabbing hands full of lock. By end of first lap was back about 6th and heading further back, good days and loved the wet.
Bruce Manon
Some photo's from the 1985 Bardahl series - Cossey's Farm , Drury.
Found these early 70's photo's of a race at Pukekohe
Wellington's Alan Brough in his Heatway rally Corolla drives the wheels off it...
and ?? Neil in a formula ford
Last edited by Jeff; 01-31-2014 at 11:38 AM.
In the Cossey's Farm thread Jeff wrote:
Jim Richards really excelled on gravel and watching him and Leo Leonard fight out the Riverhead Rallysprint in the late 70's in matching BDA Mk2 Escorts was superb stuff. There is rough but superb footage of the event on You Tube with all of our superb drivers of the day including Mike Marshall chucking the CRC Escort off the road at speed.
I was there that day and loved every moment of it as a kid.
Dad worked for TVNZ (NZBC then ) and mounted in-car and on-car camera's with limpet ( suction cup ) mounts
and sometimes clockwork 16mm film camera's were used as they didn't have a heavy battery and could film for 3 mins at a time.
NZBC were relieved that they had taken the camera off Mike Marshall's Escort before he went off.
Mike Marshall's Escort with the roof-mounted camera.
Leo Leonard who won the event.
Part of the very large crowd that was there that day.
Would that be Merv Neil in the #62 FF ?
Superb photo's Milan. Many thanks.
My highlights of the day included not only Mike Marshall going off but also Harvard Daniels rolling the rotary engined Purvis Eureka kit car on the same corner and being unable to get out of the upside-down car because the roof lifts up.... hmmm
Also John Cowan rolled his mk1 escort "The Pheonix" on the same corner.
To really cap it off some spectators fell through the wooden roof of an old concrete water tank on that same corner and gave me a good chuckle.
The event was a massive success and as Milan's photo's and the you tube video shows - the crowd was large for our second ever televised rallysprint.
I do recall mention of some stuff being stolen from Mike Marshall's stranded Escort down in the trees but I'm not sure if this was true or just rumour.
The course still exists, even the side-road start line area still exists and that is a rarity in a forest.
The last corner where all the carnage happened has been altered by logging operations but for the most part the course is just the same.
Even the roadside open fire-water tank on the 100mph straight is still there.
I remember the Fredco Toyota Starlet ending up submerged in there in later years.
In 1985 I did a rallysprint in there and it used most of that course and it was bloody fast and scary.
Last edited by Jeff; 02-05-2014 at 08:51 AM.
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