Winner of the Teretonga round of the 1969 Tasman Series, Piers Courage in the Frank Williams run Brabham BT24, enjoys his victory lap.
Winner of the Teretonga round of the 1969 Tasman Series, Piers Courage in the Frank Williams run Brabham BT24, enjoys his victory lap.
Team mates Jochen Rindt and Graham Hill. Rindt was brought in as the eventual replacement for Jim Clark at Team Lotus, who'd perished back in April 1968. Rindt himself would lose his life in practice for the Italian GP in 1970. When Chris Amon is asked if he felt unlucky to have never won a Formula 1 race, when coming so close on so many occasions, he rightly points out that he was in fact one of the lucky ones, to have survived such a deadly era.
Sports car action, with Jim Boyd in the Stanton Corvette being chased by a brace of Beggs, the Begg Sports and McBegg.
The Stanton Corvette, here raced by Jim Boyd, and painted up in Team Lexington cigarette colours. Boyd would replace this car the following season with a Lola T70 spyder. Note the cool old '58 Chevy tow car in the background (not related to the Stanton), with enclosed trailer. Not many people were lucky enough to have enclosed trailers in 1969!
I'd say that's Eoin Young in the blue jacket in the second pic of the Lotus pilots.
I am sure we have seen that pale green Ford Consul parked in a dangerous position in other pictures . Must have been owned by a very influentual marshal
Yep, it'd have to be a marshals car, and a very influential one at that. Its quite hard to see in these pics, but there is a wire string just in front of where many of the spectators are lined up, which I guess is the extent of the safety precautions.
Well spotted! You could well be right.Originally Posted by GD66
The photo caption for this one says "Fahey, Coppins, Crosbie", but I'd have thought it'd be Fahey, Spinner Black, Dave Simpson? What do you guys think? Coppins did take over the Camaro, but I'm sure it wasn't until the following season.
Amazing small capacity battle which were often the highlight of the saloon car races. Can anyone ID the Cooper S drivers in this shot? The dark green car is possibly Graham Watson. Note Jim Richards in his 1300cc Escort just ducking out of shot.
More flying bricks, including Barry Phillips, plus Robert Stewart in the red car. Who are the other two?
Yes it certainly look like Watson's car. It was always immaculately turned out.Amazing small capacity battle which were often the highlight of the saloon car races. Can anyone ID the Cooper S drivers in this shot? The dark green car is possibly Graham Watson. Note Jim Richards in his 1300cc Escort just ducking out of shot.
Here are Jim Carney and Jim Richards in their Escorts. Richards had been struggling since he began his racing career with a lack of money, and his equipment reflected this. Many of the races he had in his 1300cc Escort he battled with Carney in his twin-cam. Carney, obviously, should have been much further up the road, so was impressed that Richards could foot it with the equipment he had. It was around this time that Carney let Richards start driving his twin-cam, which of course thrust him into the limelight, prompting Carney to then contact John Willment and purchase a full-blown racing twin-cam Escort out of England.
That's actually Rodger Anderson in #96. The turquoise mini is Gordon Edwards in the Rorstan entry.
Agree with Fahey, Spinner Black carrying #92 and Dave Simpson #100 with those distinctive flares.
And is that Mary Donald/Carney with the stopwatch ? If so, full marks for composition...
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Ahh, yes, thanks, I was getting mixed up with the Cambridge Cooper S of Phillips from the following season.
More tin top action. There weren't too many pre-war American coupes still racing in NZ by the late 1960s. Ron Silvester was still punting his Chevy coupe along pretty quickly, and his car has become quite legendary in NZ, and is still owned by the Silvester family, and raced once or twice a year by Ron's son Grant. But Rod McElrea, who would be a strong supporter of OSCA (Open Saloon Car Association) for many, many years, was also still charging hard in a pre-war Chevy coupe by the late '60s. Rod's '38 Chevy didn't feature the heavy roof chop of Ron's car, but it was still a fantastic looking car. Does anyone know what happened to this old Chevy?
Here is Gary Sprague, in the old Dave Simpson, 1966 NZ Saloon Car Championship winning Anglia, leading Spinner Black and Rodger Anderson. Note Gary's Anglia doesn't have its fastback roof section fitted in this photo.
[QUOTE=Steve Holmes;25715]Ahh, yes, thanks, I was getting mixed up with the Cambridge Cooper S of Phillips from the following season.
Same car just different paint and steerer.
...and engine
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