Kerepehi, Raglan , Waharoa and other Waikato Grass tracks.

[Roger Dowding]

Just putting this out that I haven't seen much about these.
Thames Valley Car Club and Hamilton Car Club were avid organisers of these very popular events.

Oldfart - Have seen very little of these but I did find a little on Waharoa which has been posted on here, think your Matamata thread but need to check.

Kerepehi - went there once in February 1967 from memory, had just bought my first car and joined NSCC.
Remember some pre-war Ford V8 Coupes and Jim Boyd in the Lycoming, which raced past us going home followed by a mate of his with a car and trailer.
Guess they brought the trailer in case Jim broke down. No photos though.

Will be a good thread to add any photos, entry lists programmes when found.

Cover of a Waharoa Programme .. March 1967



Alan Boyle got a couple of Certificates .. Alan Boyle archives. March 1966 and 1967.



The names [ signatures ] on the certificates .. a G Meekings on the second - name seems familiar - did he do Race, Rally, Trial or Hill Climb.

Did a couple of HCC events Mercury Trophy Trials and one year an HCC Bardahl Hill Climb, also competed on the TVCC Mercury Trophy Trial at least once - remember a section where we drove across a culvert that was covered in water. !!
We may have been in a Ford in a Ford !!

[Trevor Sheffield]

I remember thse events as being for many, the only form of motor racing vaiable on the basis of cost. A very important aspect involved near zero tyre wear, particularly when these were in short supply. At the time I was running retreaded tyres. There were many competing who could not afford any other form of actual racing.

As a result they provided a valid, valued means of truly amateur motor sport and were very much part of the clubman scene.