Photos: The Ross Cammick Collection - Part 1

[Steve Holmes]

You'll all know who Ross Cammick is. He is the brilliant Kiwi motorsport photographer whose photos have graced this website throughout various threads.

I felt it was time Ross' images were brought together into the one thread, to celebrate for what they are. These are stunning, high-impact shots, capturing a golden era in New Zealand motorsport.

Ross started motorsport photography in 1973, and continued until the mid-1980s, as he was spending a lot of time overseas.

Ross kindly gathered up many of the photos already on this site, and added a few more, and put them on a memory stick for me. They're not in any particular order, rather broken loosely into folders, such as Rally, Formula Pacific, Circuit Racing, B&H, Bikes etc. So they won't be displayed in any particular order, other than how they sit in their folders.

I should add, there are a lot of them! I'll be breaking this stunning collection into multiple parts. This is Part 1. I hope you enjoy it.

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Kicking things off here, and we have the amazing Holden Monaro Sports Sedan of Barry Algie, in its early guise before the box flares were added to the rear.

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ShellSport action, with Grant Aitken leading Reg Cook.

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ShellSport action, with Grant Aitken leading Reg Cook.

AWESOME PHOTO !!

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Bill Leckie in his Chev F5000 Capri in its early guise, from the 1976 season. This car was built to contest the 4.2 litre championship, but would eventually get fast enough to compete for outright race wins. Looks like Rex Hart just ahead.

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Jack Nazer's Victor Chevy. I assume this is either late in the 1976 season or early in the 1977 season. Its wearing the 1976 season colour scheme, but the NZ Freighters writing is gone.

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Assuming this fits with Milan's programme posted above, possible Ian Capewell?

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More of the Bill Leckie Capri, again from the 1976 season, and then in its later 1977 guise, as it was best remembered.

The 1977 photos show Jim Richards at the wheel at Pukekohe following a mechanical failure with the Sidchrome Mustang at an earlier event. Bill was still suffering from the burns he'd received when the car caught fire at Manfield a few weeks earlier. The Capri had been repaired, Richards had no car, the rest is history. Richards actually broke the outright Saloon Car lap record at this event.

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Greg Lancaster's Victor Chevy in both earlier and later guise.

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Ian Algie's wild Alfetta Sports Sedan in its early guise, leading George Shewiery in the ex-Jim Richards Mustang.

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Now leading John Osborne's Camaro.

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The Alfetta again in its later, more familiar guise now with front spoiler and rear wing, and painted red.

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The Anderson brothers Pinepac Falcon passing an unidentified road going Commodore.

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Tim Bailey in the Dino Ferrari.

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This is Graham Baker in the ex-Brent Bullivant V8 Capri leading Wayne Huxford's similar machine at Bay Park.

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Graeme Addis Charger Sports Sedan.

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Radical rearward seating position of the Algie Monaro.

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Robert Bartley's V8 MkIII Cortina.

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Reg Cook's Datsun Cherry.