Roger,
Just wanted to wish you a wonderful Christmas and thank you for all your interesting inputs and humour etc.
I am truly at the end of the 1970s inputs and now entering family photos which is a bit much for you all.
Still trying to get you in the Moss magazine but they did something on me instead after I showed them your "drifting" photo.
So thanks mate !
All the very best for the new year.
Ken H
Ken, HiOriginally Posted by khyndart in CA
best wishes to you too !!, and i enjoy your posts photos clippings, and all done with a sense of fun..
I too am running out of racing stuff, but have a lot of Vintage car stuff in both 3 x 3 black and white and some colour. I have been posting some of my stuff on Facebook as Alan Boyle, Ron Brown, of Mini fame, Bob Homewood, Rod Peat John Coker Grant Sprague put lots of posts there, some great photos too !!.
Oldfart's request for steets in Dunedin sent me on another quest to find the Hill Climb Roads as they are today - feel another TRS post will happen soon,
Merry Christmas to you and your family and friends.
the Moss magazine, would be good - one day, thanks for trying
cheers
Roger
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Merry Christmas Roger. Thanks for all your posts. I have enjoyed them. Cheers, Bruce
Bruce, you too Mate, and again thanks for the Waimate Book and the programmes, take care.
PS there will be more posts, found some photos from a Wings and Wheels at Whenuapai, around 1999 - 2000 and a whole lot from Ohakea in 1980/81/82 - unsure which year ..but was an anniversary, and Fordy Farland was in the limelight, both racing and at the dinner .. were you there ?? .. Practice at Manfield Saturday then racing at Ohakea on the Sunday
Just in case you think i am confused yes do have heaps of Vintage car photos, my own, and the Ohakea and Whenuapai ones mine too!!.
Just need some time to sort them as seem to have mixed up quite a lot, - could be a job for a rainy day, haven't had one here for over a month though !!.
To all of you as bry3500, chaindrive Ken H and Spgeti and others have said - merry xmas and a happy [ and safe ] new Year .. 2016 a leap year ..
cheers
Roger
Yes I was. I took along the ex Tulloch Z28 Camaro. Lots of Alfa members from here raced there.
Must check the photos, the racing ones were not good but the ones around the pits, parking show a lot of cars, my camera did a ?? that day, or was it the operator ??, probably ..
I found this video of the good old days at Pukekohe and Bay Park about 1968-69.
Check the early Formula A cars at Bay Park.
I had a question; what is the green sports car at about the 40 second mark and who is driving the white Imp ?
Roger, I hope that is not you !
(Ken Hyndman )
Green sports car is the Heron (sometimes referred to as the Heron Daimler). One of a number of Heron sports cars built by Ross Baker in Rotorua. Fitted with a 2.5 litre Daimler V8. Probably driven here by Ken Richardson. Two were sports/racers (this car and another which was similar to a Lotus 23). Ross also built a number of road cars.
You will find some info on them on the 'Net.
Ken- great clip of Beechey in Nova when it was blue, Scott Wiseman -E type, Spencerin Lexington, Nei; Doyle- Fastback Anglia , at BayPark.
Grables F5000 was definitely short.
Ken, never had an Imp, was a Mini boy at the time 67-68 and then 71-74 .. would have been at Pukekohe then, maybe not at Baypark .. great footage ..
Ken
- the Heron - Daimler,
This pic is shown early in the thread, easier to repost . stack pipes as were the thing in the day - 1966.
not good quality from the basic camera, could be the photographer, term used loosely ..
Correct !
December 1968. Bay Park,
Here are some repeat photos from that event. Really was an enjoyable time. Note the working conditions for Spinner's Camaro and the
Grable "Spectre".
AN enjoyable "Aussie" invasion of Norm Beechey and Leo Geoghegan.
(Ken Hyndman photos ..sorry the quality is not great but be grateful I was carrying a camera and not hanging onto a beer or a girlfriend at the time !)
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No - that's Mike Edgell - Randall's older brother and Richard Osborne, I think, on the way to Baypark. Filmed from the accompanying Ford Model A! I must try and get the film cleaned up...shot on standard 8 (with the drama of taking the film out and turning it over halfway through the roll), with a 1961 Yashica clockwork movie camera with 2 lenses (which I still have somewhere) and a very limited budget for film. I had it quickly converted when it looked like it was deteriorating badly in the West Australian heat.
These two photos are well known [ not mine ] but have appeared in Classic Driver in 2010 the first one and now both recently on Facebook on the page " NZ car related street scenes 1950's to 1980's " Allan Dick believes they were taken by and Auckland Star newspaper photographer.
Both David McKinney [ dcd ] and Donn White wrote to Classic Driver in the Issue #33 August September 2010 after the first photo appeared in " Dusty's " section of the magazine in an earlier issue.
These are the letters from the magazine
Hopefully it is readable..
also another letter re the Gee Cee Ess .. and a small picture of the Edelbrock Special and a Healey 100S.. which of course got my " Interest ". Allan Dick acknowledges that I have copied form " His " magazine .. with the comment pleased to see I had back issues .. left some behind in NZ unfortunately, and now only get them when I visit " home " .
Roger, I am somewhat confused:
The title of this thread is "my early years 1964-71", and in post#10 you note you went with your father in 1964.
However in my recent thread on First Tasman Series, you note in post#10 "1964 was before I ever got to a motor race, that was 1965"
You can surely appreciate why I am confused?
Terry, in 1964, we sat outside the track as were driving past,[ think Dad didn't want to pay !! ] the first time I actually went in was 1965.. and this is all done from memory so the will be errors .. I used to have all the programmes of events that I went to - but gave them away in 2008, a bad decision - they help with getting dates correct ..
cheers
Roger
A couple of pictures from Robin Tanner which Bruce Thompson posted on Facebook, may have been on TRS on another thread. Bruce said that they may have been taken by Robins family ;
All of my photos have been posted ;
Kevin Green Chev and Robin Tanner Ford, coupes
Cars in the Saloon handicap race, heading toward the start finish from the elbow..an interesting mix of cars and big crowd in the old stand, right on the track.
Reposting one of my own photos, some of the same cars, but have marked this May 1966, but think the reverse direction meeting was April 1966, or am I confused, as I confused Terry S.. **A couple of pictures from Robin Tanner which Bruce Thompson posted on Facebook, may have been on TRS on another thread. Bruce said that they may have been taken by Robins family ;
All of my photos have been posted ;
Kevin Green Chev and Robin Tanner Ford, coupes
Cars in the Saloon handicap race, heading toward the start finish from the elbow..an interesting mix of cars and big crowd in the old stand, right on the track.
Correction November 2018- Milan Fistonic says the Race Numbers in my photo
" Saloons heading for the grid " is the May 1966 meeting, not the Reverse Direction one of April 1966
The cars would have had to go along the pit road to near the stands then turn around to be on the track facing the Hill " Rothmans ".
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