Photos: The Allan Porter Collection - Part 1

[Steve Holmes]

Errol Uttinger versus Trevor Watson.

[Steve Holmes]

Couple of early speedway Sprintcars (or Modifieds?), trying out a little drag racing. Note they're still wearing their smaller left-side wheels. Must be a wild ride trying to run them straight down the strip.

[bigbanger]

Super Modifieds was the pre Sprintcar name. These are Super Modifieds.

[Steve Holmes]

McConnachie brothers rail. I assume these are the same McConnachie brothers who raced a '69 Mustang in speedway in the '70s?

[Steve Holmes]

Moving on again, to Rotorua, from 1970. Pictured in the T Bucket in the background is, I'm told, Terry Furness. Terry was featured in a book I write a few years back called Kiwi Hot Rodders Guide To Life.

[Steve Holmes]

[Steve Holmes]

Curly West (left) and Dave McDougall. The bright green GMC 6 powered Willys coupe is also pictured earlier in this thread. Curly later replaced the Willys body with a T Bucket body, and stored the rare Willys body behind his shed. He later had a rubbish remover come collect some junk off his section, and the rubbish guy crushed the Willys body, thinking it was junk! Anyone who knows anything about these cars knows how valuable they are now.

The car still exists in Christchurch in its T Bucket guise, and was also featured in my Kiwi Hot Rodders book.

[Steve Holmes]

Still at Rotorua. Interesting the mix of cars being raced.

[Steve Holmes]

I have no idea!

[Steve Holmes]

John Parry in the hot rod pick-up. Note the quad-carb set-up on the flathead V8! Not sure who is in the Chevy coupe.

[Steve Holmes]

[Steve Holmes]

This is Aussie Top Fuel racer Graham Whithers, doing a publicity run at Wigram.

[Steve Holmes]

Noel Jones' Rebel dragster.

[Steve Holmes]

Amazing x-ray photo Allan did of Baloo in 1970.

[Michael Clark]

And a Mk2 Zephyr before that at W.Park.

They were great days - Kendall in the Pink Pussy Cat Prefect with a T-C Lotus. Brilliant/

[John McKechnie]

And also wild dirt track days at Riverhead.
The drag rail was not Barry, it was his younger brother Graham/Graeme.

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks for the great info you guys. Keep it coming! Any help with any details on these photos is always appreciated.

[bce257]

Really enjoying this thread Steve, there's something very NZ about the vehicles/creations and the variety of engines used.

#91 looks like a Mk2 Zephyr lump with triple SUs, although they aren't on quite enough angle to be a Raymond Mays head.

[John McKechnie]

#91-They had a Mays head on Barrys MK2 dirt track car, NZ Hot Rod mag did an article on this rail.
My friends and I thought it was the same motor that they swapped.
He also had a very nice Popular that he ran at least once.

[John McKechnie]

Pontiac straight eight- Ponty Power.