The Mike Feisst Collection - Part 7

[Steve Holmes]

Well this is it folks, the 7th and final part of the Mike Feisst Collection. I know Mike has enjoyed sharing these photos with everyone, and I've enjoyed posting them here.

This final batch has a bit of everything, from Touring Cars at Sandown, Sports Cars, Tasman Single Seaters, Formula 5000, Formula Atlantic, Saloons, Sports Sedans, and Rallying.

Thanks to Mike for sharing these.

Enjoy.

[Steve Holmes]

OK, kicking off with rallycross. Hopefully our resident rally experts can chime in here?

[Steve Holmes]

A bit more rallycross, plus Niel Allens Elfin Traco, and McLaren M10B, plus blast-off for a saloon car race at Pukekohe during the 1968 season. Paul Fahey, Rod Coppins, and Frank Bryan Mustangs all there, plus the Barry Phillips and John Ward Lotus Cortinas? Any help here?

[Steve Holmes]

Couple of shots of the Paul Fahey Escort, plus Norm Beecheys Chevy Nova. Can anyone help ID the single seater grids?

[Steve Holmes]

Early shot of the Fahey Mustang, plus Peter Brock A9X, and a selection of Peter Hughes including Lotus and Begg.

[Steve Holmes]

Pierre Dieudonne, Piers Courage. I assume that is the same Pierre Dieudonne who became a touring car driver in the '80s? Any info on his car? Black Trans-Am is no doubt owned by Burt Reynolds, and about to jump a river.....

[Howard Wood]

Post #6 first photo is Pierre Dieudonne"s Uhrlich RP3. Dr Joseph Uhrlich built a series of Formula 3 cars and ran, mostly unsuccessfully, a number of drivers in European F3 including Brett Riley at Monaco in 1978 (DNQ but there were 60 entries). Pressumably this was a converted F3 car (chassis #? Mr McKinney?). The front wheels look like March ones of the era, presumably Uhrlich used March uprights and other components. Earlier Uhrlich cars were Brabham BT21 and BT23 based.

My error, correct spelling is Ehrlich.

[Steve Holmes]

Post #6 first photo is Pierre Dieudonne"s Uhrlich RP3. Dr Joseph Uhrlich built a series of Formula 3 cars and ran, mostly unsuccessfully, a number of drivers in European F3 including Brett Riley at Monaco in 1978 (DNQ but there were 60 entries). Pressumably this was a converted F3 car (chassis #? Mr McKinney?). The front wheels look like March ones of the era, presumably Uhrlich used March uprights and other components. Earlier Uhrlich cars were Brabham BT21 and BT23 based.

Thanks for that great info Howard. I assume this would be very early in Dieudonne's career?

[Steve Holmes]

Baby saloons at Pukekohe and rallying.

[Steve Holmes]

A trio of shots of Dawsons Shelby Mustang in its neat looking electric blue colours, plus his ill fated DeKon Monza, and Robbie Francevics infamous Katipo.

[paul lancaster]

Hi Steve, why can't I see half ofmthese pics, all I have is name jpg size etc

[paul lancaster]

Hi Steve, would like to see the pic of francevic in the katipo, can you repost it please

[seaqnmac27]

Thats Ehrlich, there is a front on view in Post #6 of The Mike Feisst Collection Part 3. Dieudonne was a motor racing journalist, and definitely was the one who went on to have great success in touring cars

[Steve Holmes]

Thats Ehrlich, there is a front on view in Post #6 of The Mike Feisst Collection Part 3. Dieudonne was a motor racing journalist, and definitely was the one who went on to have great success in touring cars

This was how Mike had spelt it too. I'll leave the spelling up to you guys. Would love to know more about these cars.

[GD66]

On the grid at Pukekohe : #8 Piers Courage M4A, #41 Jim Palmer M4A, #20 Laurence Brownlie Brabham, #12 Roly Levis Brabham, #10 Peter Yock Lotus 33-BRM.

[Steve Holmes]

On the grid at Pukekohe : #8 Piers Courage M4A, #41 Jim Palmer M4A, #20 Laurence Brownlie Brabham, #12 Roly Levis Brabham, #10 Peter Yock Lotus 33-BRM.

Thanks for that info.

[Steve Holmes]

Just a few more for tonight. Will post the rest in the morning.

A couple of Reg Cooks ShellSport Datsuns which were so successful in that series, plus Robert Stewart in one of the PDL Mini's in the first year of the PDL Racing Team. And, future F1 driver Roberto Moreno, in a Ralt RT4 (I think?).

[coldrive]

I’ll take a shot at the rally pix. From the top are more from Heatway `73 and the special stage at the HopuHopu army camp on the last day of the rally, as in a previous gallery. You can clearly see the Hamilton Car Club banner. This stage was run as a race, rallycross style. I think the same happened on at least one race circuit (Pukekohe?) and at a trotting track in the Sth Island. The blue/white Escorts look like the Woolmark cars of Hannu Mikkola and Mike Marshall which finished 1st and 2nd. The Mini Clubman could be Andrew Cowan, the Porsche would be the 911T of Tim Bailey which finished 5th behind Mikkola. Marshall, Shekhar Mehta (Datsun 180B) and Colin Bond (the XU1 in one of the previous galleries). I would be reasonably certain the green Escort would be none other than Jim Richards in the Dulux car.
From more modern times the Duckhams RX3 is Rod Millen at the Mystery Creek special stage Motogard `78. In a previous gallery the Escort with its nose planted in the drain was Mike Marshall, also at Mystery Creek. A little shortcut that ended his rally on day 1.
The Masport Escort below that is the famous Vatanen car from`77. This is day one at a regroup (somewhere in Hamilton would be my guess, Glenview Hotel?) so the car is still not too battered. Next to it is the Toyota Trueno of Alan Brough. The big line of cars has the nose of the Fiat 131 of eventual winner Fulvio Bacchelli. 2 cars along the RX3 of Rod Millen with the name of co-driver Mike Franchi able to be seen. About 7 along is the 1600 pushrod MkII Escort of Nelson’s Dave Parkes, one of my favourite drivers of that era,
The Celica is the `82 winning car of Bjorn Waldegard. It’s the same event as the Quattros, Rohrl’s Opel Ascona, JDs Escort, Pond’s Nissan etc in Mike’s pix from a previous gallery. Taken on day 1 of `82 at a regroup in central Hamilton after the cars had completed Old Mountain Rd and before they went to Mystery Creek (does anyone remember the crowd there that day?) The location is Alexandra St roughly where Farmers is today.
Thanks for posting all these great pix, Colin Smith.

[Steve Holmes]

I’ll take a shot at the rally pix. From the top are more from Heatway `73 and the special stage at the HopuHopu army camp on the last day of the rally, as in a previous gallery. You can clearly see the Hamilton Car Club banner. This stage was run as a race, rallycross style. I think the same happened on at least one race circuit (Pukekohe?) and at a trotting track in the Sth Island. The blue/white Escorts look like the Woolmark cars of Hannu Mikkola and Mike Marshall which finished 1st and 2nd. The Mini Clubman could be Andrew Cowan, the Porsche would be the 911T of Tim Bailey which finished 5th behind Mikkola. Marshall, Shekhar Mehta (Datsun 180B) and Colin Bond (the XU1 in one of the previous galleries). I would be reasonably certain the green Escort would be none other than Jim Richards in the Dulux car.
From more modern times the Duckhams RX3 is Rod Millen at the Mystery Creek special stage Motogard `78. In a previous gallery the Escort with its nose planted in the drain was Mike Marshall, also at Mystery Creek. A little shortcut that ended his rally on day 1.
The Masport Escort below that is the famous Vatanen car from`77. This is day one at a regroup (somewhere in Hamilton would be my guess, Glenview Hotel?) so the car is still not too battered. Next to it is the Toyota Trueno of Alan Brough. The big line of cars has the nose of the Fiat 131 of eventual winner Fulvio Bacchelli. 2 cars along the RX3 of Rod Millen with the name of co-driver Mike Franchi able to be seen. About 7 along is the 1600 pushrod MkII Escort of Nelson’s Dave Parkes, one of my favourite drivers of that era,
The Celica is the `82 winning car of Bjorn Waldegard. It’s the same event as the Quattros, Rohrl’s Opel Ascona, JDs Escort, Pond’s Nissan etc in Mike’s pix from a previous gallery. Taken on day 1 of `82 at a regroup in central Hamilton after the cars had completed Old Mountain Rd and before they went to Mystery Creek (does anyone remember the crowd there that day?) The location is Alexandra St roughly where Farmers is today.
Thanks for posting all these great pix, Colin Smith.

Wow, great work there Colin! So when they ran a couple of stages like a rallycross, was there any body contact between the cars?

[GD66]

By the way, re Ulf Norinder's delectable gold-and-blue Lola T190 in post #1 .... a few school buddies and I were hanging round Bay Park that summer ('69 I think), painting the wire-rope fences of the stock car circuit for a few meagre bucks, and waiting to see who might rock up for a bit of pre-Xmas international testing, when Norinder rolled up with that horny weapon on a trailer behind an HR Holden. We barred up, but after a leisurely lap in the towcar he pronounced the circuit unacceptable for practice as there was crap all over the corners.
That'll be the day !!
My buddies and I sprung into action, commandeered a set of brooms from the unflappable Bay Park caretaker, Colin Wightman, and set to, sweeping the four corners free of debris in record time, and were rewarded by seeing the mighty Lola-Chev fire into life and cut some spectacular laps, pretty stoked !

Weren't we, Murray !