Here are a couple of photos of racing Falcons from the late 60's
Pukekohe January 1973
Patrick Smith
Someone may know the GTHO by its number plate FV6314 and sponsorship from Continental Car Services Ltd on the boot.
If you look back to the Richards/ McMillan falcon you will see that it has the same number plate
Thanks George well spotted.
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Haga- that is a very good point about this being a public forum , and these cars are now private.
Many thanks to those who have posted so far.
and
Ditto the privacy (Haga and John) the owners of the cars deserve.
I /We dont need to know where exactly they are housed ...just their history
and see some old "happy snaps" of their glory days.
Its also great to see some pics of the cars at shows or doing demo laps whether
restored or in as raced condition with a few old battle scars or replacement bits/panels etc
Ellis
Tim Bailey bought the car (straight from from McMillans I think) and raced it for a few meetings before selling it as a road car. The Torana parked behind it is the ex Roy Harrington XU1 owned by Ray Olenius at the time.Someone may know the GTHO by its number plate FV6314 and sponsorship from Continental Car Services Ltd on the boot.
Thanks Steve..
Thats Bay Park in Jul 73 Glenvale 200
JR driving and co drove with owner Norris Miles.
Miles drove solo at Pukekehoe (B'd if I can spell that) a few weeks later that year...he had pole in the dry but race was wet and he dnf
John McK sent me a scan of that yesterday
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The least photographed seem to be ...
Bruce Anderson
Grady Thomson
Patrick Smith
Would that be because they raced them less or were lower profile ?
Did E Sprague run one or did he only run the Green HO2 ?
The most photographed ones seem to be those that raced in the 1972 Castrol GTX series, from what I can tell. There were several that raced, and they were all competitive. But by the time of the 1973 GTX series, the E49 Charger had been released, which seemed better suited to production racing on NZ circuits, and these cars pretty well cleaned up. Pretty sure the Patrick Smith car raced in the '73 season, but not '72. The Anderson car had only limited outings. I think the only regular from 1972 who also ran in '73 was Brocklehurst.
In an article on Grady for the 1991 Nissan Mobil 500 Wellington street race -Grady will be racing a stock standard GTHO in the MVDI Classic Invitation race. Thats all I know of this car, it is Bronze with Gold stripes.I do know that there was 2 Bronze wine HO’s brought to new Zealand and the other one definitely went back to Australia, it had black stripes. There were a total of 18 Bronze Wine GTHO’s made.
I have a early NZ Hot Rod Magazine 1972 were they do a road test in Francevic GTHO with the number plate FV7231,will put pics up soon