John Bowden's SP250 in the drain at Rothmans.
John Bowden's SP250 in the drain at Rothmans.
Hmm...
I should dig out the pic of the tow-truck driver down to his daks retrieving the Citroen Special from the drainage canal at Sandown.
Ray- heres Kiwi dacks..#4. Sure your towie probably has more cleavage.....LOLOriginally Posted by Ray Bell
I wasn't around the scene when lots of cars ended up in that ditch at Pukekohe, but I do remember when this Dino went through the fence in the wet at a Classic racing event.
I had been looking at it in the pits before racing began and recall how pristine it was. A real shame it ended up like this, but evidently it was repaired and is now in Australia. Photographer unknown.
This is referring to the post at Puke where the Ferrari is in the creek by BMCBOY Photos taken by Jim Short. Published on https://www.facebook.com/historicspo...acingnz.co.nz/ Album is https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...4530483&type=3
This 3rd photo is where it all went wrong for John Sampson,
Last edited by crookedonenz; 06-09-2016 at 07:39 AM.
The ditch has claimed a few over the years.
One of the first was this incident in a preliminary race before the 1965 NZGP at Pukekohe. Bruce was fortunate it was not any worse and he borrowed his team mate Phil Hill's Cooper for the main event and promptly ran into the back of Jim Clark's Lotus at the hairpin on about lap 2,so it was not a great day for Bruce McLaren.
(Check those nice new Firestone tyres. Was this one of the first racing tyres for Firestone ? )
I took this photo of a an Imp and it's driver going eeling in the ditch in 1969.
(Ken Hyndman )
Last edited by khyndart in CA; 06-08-2016 at 09:53 PM.
This is another well known photo of Jim Boyd's Valour being inspected by mechanic Brian Rice. This is evidently the ditch on the inside of the hill which was later filled in.
Pukekohe Club Circuit 1984
Anyone got the pic when a certain Millen Jag through up a tidal wave?
Moss Tait in the Imp ?
Last edited by John McKechnie; 06-08-2016 at 10:26 PM.
Here you go john, that was a huge wave of mud and water.
We worked on the car at Lyalls until about 3:30 in the morning and Steve drove it like it was stolen on Sunday, actually beat Jim and Don in 1st heat.
as you can see she had a fair bit of tape holding her together, but still went well.
Ferrari job is outside on way to the hill, Steves, Jim Boyd, Shack Manon, the Imp, and Bruce McLaren and others was over the top of hill skidding infield towards the pits.
They piped and covered the outside.
McLaren's dunking was off to the left of the track between the left-hander after the hairpin and Rothmans.
A few years ago someone posted these pictures of Shack Manon's big off into the ditch (in late 60's). Fortunately I downloaded them at the time, because I doubt that I could find them on the forum.
I presume that is Shack in the water - he looks as if has been totally immersed! The car is certainly a mess, I think it made the front page of the Auckland Star on the next Monday.
Somewhere, I have a very short 8mm movie clip of Jim Boyd's dive in the Valour, but it's not in a format I could put up here .
Stu
Remember the day when Steve dropped it well. I was on the flaggie post at the hairpin.
Aaaaaah.......the ditch...........lose it over the top of the hill and...............
Such fun!
Didn't Dave Jury put an Anglia in there as well?
He didn't make it into the ditch. He hit the willow tree and his Anglia ended up banana-shaped. Got a photo somewhere.
Found it.
Last edited by Milan Fistonic; 06-09-2016 at 09:09 PM.
I think there is another pic of that somewhere on here MilanHe didn't make it into the ditch. He hit the willow tree and his Anglia ended up banana-shaped. Got a photo somewhere.
Found it.
Nope, the one I am thinking is Cyril Hyde's accident, the photo of which is here http://www.theroaringseason.com/show...lection-Part-3
I think Shack Manons Mini looked the worst of the Ditch disasters. It was absolutey totaled
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