Have just learned of the death last month of former Greymouth driver Jim Kennedy, at the age of 82

He appeared on the national scene with a 2.5 Brabham-Climax in the 1967/68 season, but the car was not competitive and he tended to run down the back of the field of the big races. He was more of a front-runner though in smaller races at Ruapuna, Timaru and Teretonga

After giving up a promising rugby career through injury he turned to motorcycles, subsequently crossing the Alps from Canterbury and running the West Coast Ford dealership, Greymouth Motors. For a time Roaring Season member Bob Homewood worked with Kennedy in this establishment

Before the Brabham, Jim Kennedy had had a couple of seasons’ club-racing with a big-engined Anglia, and met greater success subsequently in South Island saloon events with a Lotus-Cortina and then an Escort Twincam. I seem to remember he also ran bigger Fords in production-car races

Condolences to his family and friends.