Doyle/Dickie Fastback Anglia Corvette

[Steve Holmes]

This was the same meeting as #77 on this thread which was taken from a Shell Motor Racing Yearbook that they produced. It was either '67 or '68 when Brian Foley came to Bay Park, I've searched google and can't find any details. Neil Doyle is driving at this time so it's several years before OSCA. I don't know what class it would have been in at that time, I would have loved to have been there, but was still in Taranaki at that time and had only witnessed Paratutu Racing at that stage. This photo was taken by an ex workmate and is my first time at scanning a slide, hardest problem is resizing down to a size suitable to fit on the site. I have a few Bay Park slides I want to clean and place on the Bay Park thread, about 3 of the Jim Smith Rover that I took, a car I really liked due to my old man having one at the time and the fact that it was different to all the others.

Yeah good point re the house Rod. But did Levin have armco?

[Rod Grimwood]

Steve, Bay Park only had wooden slat fences that looked the part. They had pretty good sand trap run offs. John Riley was grateful for that when he backed the Camaro in at Harmans and still nudged the fence, and Geoff Sutherland in his E49 (silver and quick) went into sand and dug in and flipped over same fence and landed upside down in the pits in a spare space next to Woolfy and his Escort. Thats another story.

[fastback55]

Great photo,this will have the memory banks ticking over, are we sure it is Bay Park as can not remember a house in the back ground at Bay Park, tends to lead to Levin. There were no house's at Bay Park and actually it was the eventual underhand council houseing in later years that saw the demise of Bay Park.

Mind you track layuot looks like BP. This would have to be way back in the original haydays, as not too many fences, and look at the crowd in the background, they would have to have been on the back straight (crowd) Ok lets work out date Etc

Yeah you're right Rod I can't remember a house anywhere near the track and I flag marshaled there a few times from around "69 to '70. Woody, the guy who supplied the slide said it was at Bay Park and the trees certainly look the part. If anyone has the Shell book it will tell you the year. Neil only came north twice from what I know, once in the car as it was with the exhaust through the bonnet and the other time when this photo and the previous one mentioned were taken. My ex neighbor was Mark Grimwood, any relation?

[Rod Grimwood]

fastback55: not sure about Mark, but if he is good looking, could be. I have a few distant relations down that way as family originally Pinehaven, Wellington. Wondering if may be Bay Park at one of very original meetings as trees look like end of back straight and camping ground. Maybe they built up sandhill later to hide house and assist with noise for camping ground. Trees ring a bell the way they are situated. Don Halliday could help with confirming trees and position.

[fastback55]

You've done a nice job with it. I find Tinypic is a good website for resizing and uploading images to forums: http://tinypic.com/

I'll try and find out more info on that photo and what race the car was in.

Thanks Steve, I'll try that site, I'm lacking skills when it comes to playing with pictures, but I'm prepared to persevere and see what comes forth, I have some good pics of Alan Boyle's Viva and one of Alan Woolfe's Triumph Vitesse and Max Pennington's wildfire escort, but they all have suffered badly from being randomly thrown in a shoe box and stacked in the spare bedroom wardrobe. Probably the fate of a lot of gem's from the past. Great to see the quality of some enthusiasts photos that have posted on this site, obviously from some who have greater camera skills and equipment and who have looked after their collection a lot better than I have.

[rogered]

If this "Mark" chap has any resemblance to Merv Hughes then my guess is yes

[bob homewood]

Rod I believe that photo is from Bay Park ,I can't find them at the moment But I do have some more of that meeting ,in the mean time you can have this one from Ruapuna which would have been taken when I lived in the South Island so would possibly have been just before OSCA kicked off,now how many people etc do we know here

[Rod Grimwood]

Said fence at Bay Park and foregiving wood and sand.

[fastback55]

[AvonD]

I have some old photos that my grandfather had of Dads racing days, including the Anglia and the Victor if you are interested, not sure if there is anything helpful, but I would love to share with anyone thats interested. Small world, I used to drive past that fast back anglia parked in Governors bay and always thought I should go in and talk to the owner, didnt know he had Dads old one as well, missed oportunities. I would love to see his old car in the flesh, if its ever back in Chch. Avon Dickie

[105angria]

look forward to seeing your pictures Avon,fastback looks like he is doing a nice job with the resto, out of interest which is the version of the car you like the best ? all pics are helpfull

[Steve Holmes]

Great to have you here Avon, your contributions will be appreciated.

[Steve Holmes]

Bob Homewood has sent me this photo from Ron McPhails collection.

[fastback55]

Great picture thanks Bob and Steve, the colour is way out though as it was the blue of the previous pictures. The body is as we picked up from Governors Bay but it was in a much more deteriorated state of course, I have all the scoops on the front. It's interesting to see the strut brace that has additional pieces back to the firewall or what's left of it after the modifications to insert the engine. I must try to blow up this photo to get some more detail of the engine bay. One of my workmates commented that it looks a really long car although of course it's only small, an optical illusion with the roof chop, it's very low as you can see with Alec and Ken standing by in the first photo of this thread. I do like those wheels. This would be one shot you haven't seen Avon.

[bob homewood]

Yes I knew the colour was not right ,but I sent it exactly as Ron sent it to me ,I do have the much larger original which I had to resize to post ,if you email me I will send you a copy of the original that Ron sent me ,it might be better to scale from that ,its probably worth checking it out anyway

[pallmall]

[Steve Holmes]

How is the restoration progressing on this car?

[Rod Grimwood]

Now, was this the start of big conversion ?

[Rod Grimwood]

Looks like just cruising on a Sunday afternoon

[J42E48]

and Geoff Sutherland in his E49 (silver and quick) went into sand and dug in and flipped over same fence and landed upside down in the pits in a spare space next to Woolfy and his Escort. Thats another story.