Speedway saloons from the late 60's to the mid 70's, any pictures, memories...

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The Cowan Black Pontiac, photos taken by Andre Ruiterman of the nearly finished car.




Ron Kendall. (photos by Heather Hills and Andre Ruiterman)





15A John Scott (Andre Ruiterman photos)

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The McConnachie Mustang (photos by Heather Hills and Andre Ruiterman)








The first NZ Speedway Saloon car champion. Trevor Gray.




75 Peter Howarth in his second Holden.




And Jimmy Richards having his first speedway outing (and winning) in the Howarth car.

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Australian Kenny Barlow, many times visitor to race in NZ in stockcars and saloons. Kenny was the person who convinced the Cowan-Black and Scott-Black promotions at Waikaraka and Forest Lake to introduce saloons to their programme during his visit with the Australian stockcar team in early 1968. The two tracks introduced the new class a few meetings into the 1968-69 season. The tours by the Australian drivers in their own cars in the following few seasons allowed the NZ drivers to improve their cars and become more competitive with the visitors.
This is Kenny on his first visit with his own car around 1969, the car stayed in NZ and for a time was run and driven by Jimmy Richards for the Waikaraka promotion. (photo Heather Hills)




Australian Ken Richardson and his Aussie car at the same time. (photo Heather Hills)

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My 1/18th scale model of the McConnachie Mustang after being sold to Ken Johnson of Hawkes Bay.