What a great looking coupe - dexion helping the rear axle location!
Just a little correction Roger - the Galaxie was a Fairlane - I made that mistake some years ago on this forum and was told by David McKinney in no uncertain terms!
Looking at the wheels on the Begg 4.7 not many would know that George fabricated the four and five spokes and welded to the rims all in his little toyshop in Drummond.
Already covered...
http://www.theroaringseason.com/show...s-427-Fairlane
No dramas, bud. Loving the pics, quite a treat to see stuff like this turning up, like opening a dusty old photo album from years ago.
Gotta love TRS !
Is this a '39 or a '40? I'm a bit bewildered by the wheels, as I thought they ran only from '36 to '39 with the big stud pattern and that in 1940 they changed to the 5.5" stud circle (same as A-model etc). Yet this is a '40 grille, is it not?Originally posted by Roger Dowding
.....Rob Williams Ford V8 coupe, at Pukekohe in 1968, which he still runs
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1939- check the grille between standard and deluxe for 1939 and 1940.
Frank Hamlins Mini special
Neil Doyle's Anglia Olds / Chev
Have been posted on specific threads " Mini's and Imps " and the " Doyle / Dickie Anglia Chev ". but they belong here too!!
Lotus Anglia Frank Radisich
Lotus Ford Farina Ron Rutherford
Austin A40 Farina Jim Mullins
Morris Cooper 970S Alan Boyle and a crate of Coke drinks
Austin Cooper S Brian Foley not the lightweight he brought to NZ at other meetings.
Austin Healey Sprite - a favourite of mine as owned 4 over a number of years
That is the last of the Grand Prix pit photos .
Thanks Roger, these have been a real treat.....thank you.
Roger, these are some of the best saloon car pictures capturing our great New Zealand saloon car racing history i've ever seen, friggen awesume mate!! i say this because the open wheel cars were usually the main attraction and considered to be more a "racing car" hence more photos attend to appear, were-as the saloons had less reconition althought they meant more to the average man.
PS: luv the wooden drinks crate next to the mini, can just remember those
Dale M
The number 96 Sprite would be Rodger Anderson's, Very quick car - used to have some good dices with Dave Silcock's XK120.
Field getting ready to run.
Didn't take many photos that day, was possibly a Marshall, so kept busy.
One very quick Camaro
Dennis Marwood - RIP Dennis in 2023
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Jim Palmer's Porsche 911
and the Alan Boyle Coca Cola Viva GT, showing the crate of drinks back in 1968 by the Mini must have worked.
Will leave this thread of a while as have to sort quite a lot of photos, some good some bad..
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