Minis and Imps

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Kiwi285....... the Boyle Motor Co.....BMC....became Rozema Motors, then Bowie-Keith Motors, and Bruce Bowie gave some sponsorship to Angus when he was racing the Mini......'MINCER'... at Mystery Creek in Hamilton, in the early 1990's, and also later when he got into Mini 7's.

I remember Bruce making a valid point, that although his company might be known in the Waikato, once Angus was racing outside his home turf, the name Bowie-Keith motors meant nothing, and so the sponsorship money did not create any feed back in the way of sales etc. A competitor really needed a nationally known brand name sponsor to be worth anything, and it was hard to get back then as Colin obviously found out.......and indeed it has always been hard to get.

So perhaps the firm, which had been a well known garage in Cambridge for decades, had a history of interest in Motorsport.....Model A's to Mini 7's....
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