THe Barrie McBride Collection part 1

[Steve Holmes]

Boy, these are just fantastic! I'm really enjoying this thread, and a real mix of just about everything over a 20 year span.

[Barrie]

There is something that needs to be corrected here. There are several that are captioned as practice on the Club Circuit. While that loop may have been used for Club events I was never there when that was the case. Cars pictured at that point have finished their race and are heading to the pit road. Case in point Ford Anglia driver #57. Angle in relation to the track and the driver's right hand indicate he is stopping. Also I know where I used to stand or sit back then. I got a bit cheekier later on.

[seaqnmac27]

Well in answer to my father, our memories are very different.I remember the club circuit as just being the little kidney going right around a sweeper but not the end one instead of left around the hairpin. Anyway, here are the last 2 for this particular group of photographs
Vince Anderson Teretonga

Allan Woolf Pukekohe

[seaqnmac27]

2 Manawatu Car Club Datsun 1200's practising on the club circuit
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Terry Jensen and Graeme Montgomerie

[seaqnmac27]

clubman practice 2 Anglia's 105E and 100E
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Don McIntyre?

[seaqnmac27]

Clubman practice. RX2 leads a Mini, Picketts Civic, Deightons Chavenger, Murland? Chevette, and an Escort
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k so Civic is Graham Pickett, Deighton Chavenger, Chevette is Paul Dewar

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks Sean. There was a Paul Dewar who became very successful in Modified speedway racing out of Palmerston North. I wonder if its the same guy.

[Barrie]

Thanks Sean. There was a Paul Dewar who became very successful in Modified speedway racing out of Palmerston North. I wonder if its the same guy.

Sorry Steve, I don't know the answer. I was at the 75th Anniversary of Palmerston North Speedway in 2006, a celebration of the years 1930 - 2005. There is a reproduction of the souvenir programme cover for the 1990/91 New Zealand Super Modified Championship included and it features a photograph of Paul Dewar the then #2 in New Zealand. Reading a little further it says that he won the championship there

[Barrie]

Steve, I believe I have the answer. I found that Paul Dewar is quite a guy. He was captain of the New Zealand Fly Fishing team for the 2011/12 season. I did a search under Google and found the following.

Paul Dewar has spent most of his life in Levin where he was first introduced to trout fishing at 15 when he went fishing on the Manawatu River with friends of his father using a hand line, landing a lovely 5 pound brown setting the scene for the future.

Paul is a hydraulic engineer with his own company and is married to Janice and has two children. The only one that shows any interest in trout fishing is his daughter Wendy who sometimes accompanies dad on local expeditions. Paul is also Chairman of Fish & Game for the Wellington region.

Trout fishing took a back seat for a lot of years as Paul went motor racing, firstly doing motor cross and then track racing and rallying, Speedway was next, racing sprint cars and super modified where he climbed to the top of the sport winning the New Zealand title.

Most were astonished when he gave up the high speed rough and tumble of sprint cars to take up the genteel sport of fly-fishing. He joined the Manawatu Fresh Water Anglers club and spent his first few years fishing the Manawatu region with the occasional club trip away.

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks for that info Barrie, great work! I remember seeing him clip another car at Palmy one year, and rolled his car into a ball of metal and fibreglass. Typical Modfied racing, those guys just straighten them up and they're back out racing again in no time. Pretty sure that was before he won the title. But Modifieds to fly-fishing is a real contrast!