Yards And Yarns

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Mentioned on another thread in the past few days, I thought this thread might provide much discussion and jog many memories.


Johnny Riley Cars Sales, late 1957. The NZ Stockcar Team about to set off the the Auckland wharves to load their cars for the voyage to Australia.
#2 Johnny Riley, #3 Red Dawson, #4 Louie Antonievich (All photos by Cliff Wadsworth)







The Johnny Riley 36 Ford Coupe with Chrysler Fire Power Hemi engine nearly finished for the Australian trip. L to R. Ron Riley, Graeme Harvey, Johnny Riley, Don McDonald.




This was quite a motor sport area at the northern end of Otahuhu, with the Riley yard, and a lot later Red Dawson's car yard next door. Graeme Harvey's workshop around the corner in the sixties and dragracer Brian Trigg. A lot of racing machinery was built and worked on around here.

Now established that the photos above were taken at Riley's earlier premises at the Southern end of Otahuhu, this was also a bit of a motor sport area back in the day, especially with stockcars and speedway. Stockcars, and later midgets were run out of Farmers Co-op Car Sales by "Bert" Jones who also did some circuit racing around the late fifties. No doubt there are other motor sport connections from this area that we will get informed of.