Good photo from Ray Green, Ross and yes I will steal them to put with the others of your car - CheersOriginally Posted by Ross Hollings
and Thanks as always ERC .. stolen as I write this !! trying to, anyway, Multitask that is !!
Good photo from Ray Green, Ross and yes I will steal them to put with the others of your car - Cheers
and Thanks as always ERC .. stolen as I write this !! trying to, anyway, Multitask that is !!
Last edited by Roger Dowding; 07-20-2018 at 09:34 PM.
More for Roger...
This pic was taken on the day of my first ever sprint, at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire, June 27th 1971.
Pukekohe 1985
The WSM Sprite back at Donington 2014
Then the heavens opened...
Ray, I can't keep up, Thanks, will " steal " them later.
Cheers Roger
Back to March 2003 Taupo. My wife took some of these (ERC Series) but usually struggled with camera focus. These are the better ones.
Graeme Collie always did have a different approach to cornering...
Note the lack of headlamp covers... Replacements were eventually made by the McCarthy's at Plastic Construction, but out of acrylic rather than Perspex. You can see that the bonnet had been patched up by then, but obviously, a respray was beyond my budget.
The short Taupo track never really suited the Marcos, as with that very heavy cast iron straight six up front, I can't even remember getting into 4th gear - or if I did, it was only for about two seconds a lap!
Despite the bad luck with accidents, the original Pukekohe with the long straight suited the standard car's characteristics as it has excellent brakes and the final corner could be taken flat out - provided there was no car on its roof of course...
Last edited by ERC; 07-23-2018 at 10:09 PM.
April 2003 Pukekohe
Domain Hillclimb May 2003 - Getting very, very annoyed with this scanner. I must have scanned some of these five times now, trying to get a sharp image.
Last edited by ERC; 07-24-2018 at 03:36 AM.
2004 March 27. I think this might have been the late Geoff Manning's Jaguar.
The late, much loved, Tony Sturm, talking to Clive Taylor, who now assists Chris Browne with calculating the ERC handicaps.
Preliminary drawing of the Chris Barber Lotus Elite painting, presented to Chris to celebrate 50 years of the Chris Barber Jazz band.
Last edited by ERC; 07-24-2018 at 09:13 PM.
April 2004 - skipping around a bit but easier to dive into the 400+ negative films and just grab what hasn't already been scanned.
Just before Mike Sexton bought it.
On to June and the Goodwood Festival of Speed
My wife's favourite part of the day...
Aussie V8 meeting at Pukekohe 2005
Who can ever forget this incident? Dean Fulford's Porsche landing in the spectator area on the front straight.
Last edited by ERC; 07-27-2018 at 10:29 PM.
I won't look like this though !! May need one though - have the hammer, not the other things !!!
Last edited by Roger Dowding; 07-28-2018 at 08:26 PM.
Good to catch up Roger - even though it was very brief and in the rush (sold the MGF!) I forgot to give you the Chris Barber CD...
Won't be at the August meet, but for those interested, check out the 'Daffodil Run' for Charity August 26th, starting at Smales farm. Brilliant.
Huge turnout again today and the weather was kind. Will post pics eventually, but in the meantime, more to upload from the scans.
Back to the 2002 Targa - when it was more for classics than moderns.
Rob's Morgan before the extra scaffolding required in later years.
Eddie fettling a Jaguar
Last edited by ERC; 07-29-2018 at 08:57 PM.
Quote " Good to catch up Roger - even though it was very brief and in the rush (sold the MGF!) "
Thanks Ray yes it was good to talk after 5 attempts meet both here several times and at Chelsea Walsh and I had a chat with Kevin and his wife as you were leaving.
Please you sold the MGF - gone to a good home.
Must have been a dozen MX5's this time about 5 NA series several NB's and a few later ones - one a Black one with an Aston Martin style grille and a name on the back Mazdarati - it look stylish.
No Austin Healeys that I saw quite a few Triumphs though GT6, Heralds and I think a Vitesse that has been there before !!
Took quite few photos but will be a few days before they get downloaded.
Cheers Roger D
Last edited by Roger Dowding; 07-30-2018 at 04:25 AM.
Last outing for my low mileage MGF! Just about to leave when a couple showed interest. Took it for a test run, came back and all OK so the lady bought it.
I'll be taking it up to its new home Warkworth way on Tuesday. My wife rather unkindly said, 1 down, 6 to go... Then I pointed out that the six would include her Mini Cooper and leave us dependent on Goff's tram and Len's trainset, neither of which will be of any help to those of us living on the North Shore.
Note that this was taken well before the supposed 10am start time... If you are not there before about 9.30am, you are banished to the overflow area. Big queues to get in - and out.
Last edited by ERC; 07-29-2018 at 09:09 PM.
Ray,Last outing for my low mileage MGF! Just about to leave when a couple showed interest. Took it for a test run, came back and all OK so the lady bought it.
I'll be taking it up to its new home Warkworth way on Tuesday. My wife rather unkindly said, 1 down, 6 to go... Then I pointed out that the six would include her Mini Cooper and leave us dependent on Goff's tram and Len's trainset, neither of which will be of any help to those of us living on the North Shore.
Note that this was taken well before the supposed 10am start time... If you are not there before about 9.30am, you are banished to the overflow area. Big queues to get in - and out.
Yes good sale !!
Those queues I got the lights at Motorway Overbridge on Northcote Road about 9;40 spent nearly 10 minutes to just get to the entrance and was directed way down the back towards Westlake Girls.
The queue coming off the motorway from North was down the off ramp and the left hand [ kerb ] lane was at a standstill.
Perhaps Protecta and the organising Guys and Girls need to have signs down the various roads that lead to the venue.
Lots of non " C and C " vehicles stuck in the Traffic.
Well worth the wait and the visit
Last edited by Roger Dowding; 07-30-2018 at 04:27 AM.
Back to 2003 and the bad smash that effectively ruined all the body work that had already been done on the car! No one's fault. That is racing but I do sincerely believe that having concrete lining a purpose built race track, with no escape options when things go to custard is a bit dumb.
Left front suspension damaged (later, much later, it was also discovered that the shock absorber was also slightly bent!).
Rear damage was also extensive, with the bodywork damaged right up to and including the passenger door aperture.
...and the recently repaired bonnet.
Last edited by ERC; 07-30-2018 at 12:33 AM.
After the mechanical work had been done, some months later I attacked the bonnet which had never sat properly anyway so I hacked off the nose!
You can see from the purple lines that all was not very square.
At that point, I was going to update the front with the later, deeper shape and I was well advanced - and Rhys, please don't laugh at my attempts to construct a new front end... The green shaded area on the plywood hinges would have been the deeper shape.
But then I changed my mind and opted to stick with the original shape. It may not be as efficient and looks odd when cresting the brow of turn 3 at HD, but hey, that is the way it is.
Nigel's photo I think, of my last race in 2016.
By the way, what appears to be a lump underneath is in fact the base of the driver's floor which sits lower than the chassis rails at sill height. It is from this angle that the underside of the nose should be deeper and line up with lower part of the sill.
Now I have sold the MGF, I'll shift the MGB GT down to Hampton Downs and bring the Marcos back home and fettle it ready for a possible sale. I've had it for 27 years and I'll be very, very sorry to see it go but the new HD directive is just another nail in the coffin of just going out for a track blast or even an occasional Classic Trial.
Believed to be the most raced Marcos Volvo 3 litre Volvo anywhere in the world! it has history. (Dr Jonathon Palmer did run a Ford V6 engined one and most of the cars racing in Historics are the early 1800cc 4 cylinder cars.)
Send me a PM if you are interested, but I won't be doing anything about it until the end of September.
Last edited by ERC; 07-31-2018 at 03:50 AM.
Ray, you misjudge meI like creativity!
Thanks Rhys, but what takes me weeks, months, or in the case of the Magnette, years to achieve, a pro would have had it all wrapped up in a few days! The joy of fibreglass. Don't like, it, cut it out and have a another go! Not sitting well, cut out a vee and reglass it.
There is a link between this Mini and my Magnette. At the time this was taken, 2003 both owned by Don Bell. Always interesting to see what is in and around By'Gone Autos.
Domain Hillclimb again. Brian's Humber 80 Special.
Last edited by ERC; 07-31-2018 at 09:25 PM.
Domain Hillclimb again. Brian's Humber 80 Special.
Think that is the car that Ross Hollings owned at one stage the Humber 80 Special is a good looking car - I thought it was Buckler when I first saw photo's of it.have gathered a few photos of it >
Good luck with the work , only 6 cars left !! and I thought your MGF looked very tidy !!
This HD and other things with Reg's - destroying Classic Racing - very SAD ..
Roger, the Humber 80 special did use a de Joux body, that didn't make it a Buckler despite what a newer book than the much criticised book on NZ racing cars says.
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