Photos: The Graeme Bennett Collection - Part 1

[Carlo]

Yep. Built by Bill Leckie for Fred Bailey and Kent Baigent. Made its debut at the Bay Park Gold Star meet end March 78. At the GP meet Jan 1980 it was entered to be driven by Bailey. Leckie was entered driving the Lancer.

Then on sold to John Armstrong who ran it for a season before selling it to Allan Farr who still races it today. The car has raced in Shellsport, OSCA, South Island Endurance Series and still retains it's Shellsport configuration as used by Allan during the 1982 season

[Steve Holmes]

The next six photos are all from Pukekohe in January 1980. They include the two Group C A9X's Torana's that visited the North Island race tracks Puke, Bay Park, and Manfeild. One was the Holden Dealer Team car, the other was that of Garry Rogers. The third Aussie car was the Graeme Whincup Monza. There was a bit of musical chairs going on with the Monza and HDT Torana. Graeme himself sometimes drove the Monza, Peter Brock sometimes drove the Torana, and Jim Richards had a steer in both. No doubt someone here can tell me who drove what, where.

The fourth car in the pics is Wayne Huxfords V8 Capri, in only its second year of competition, and still fitted with the Morand Chevy out of the Oxton driven Begg FM5.

[Steve Holmes]

[Steve Holmes]