Motor Racing pics - my early years, 1964-71 ; Pukekohe Racetrack ;by - Roger Dowdingl

[Roger Dowding]

I seem to remember that all race cars back in the 60s and maybe 50s had to have a registration plate attached somewhere. Someone whose memory is better than mine may like to correct me if i'm wrong.

Allan - Correct - often they were bolted to the floor in saloons, and if not a Road Registration vehicle were to have a
" Daytime Warrant " - not requiring lights or indicators.
928 comments -" had to be on the car when it went for scrutineering, but the reg did not say attached. wof had to be attached though. "

Life is too complicated these days - Registration Papers only have the current owner on them - unlike this where you have a history of a car.



Cars displayed a Registration Sticker and a Warrant Sticker and of course in Mid 1979 through to some time in 1980 a Carless Day sticker all stuck on the inside of the windscreen - no little stick-on pockets like today for the Rego ..

Carless Days stickers;


Rego stickers 1970's on became much smaller by the 1990's



My Carless Day sticker for the Triumph TR4A - put it in " clingwrap " and attached to the windscreen here with two paid for but never affixed Rego stickers from the Austin Healey 100 - was hardly driven 1991 - 1995



WoF stickers have changed over the years but still a similar size and now have those punched out numbers.
Here an old one .. that graced a certain Healey in the 1980's BQ538 -



Old Number Plates to complete the picture.



Some items are mine some collected from Richard Armstrong and others..