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08-31-2021, 04:02 AM
#101
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Austin Seven special - racer AUST1N - TP7 owned by Mike Courtney in the 1990's
Mike Courtney - a guy I have known since by Banking Days in New Lynn late 1980's early 1990's [ 1985 - 1992 ] is looking for this car, his old car. We had a chat only yesterday about the car.
Mike writes on the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand Facebook page ;
" Looking for this car I built some years ago Austin 7 special Rego when sold was TP7 as aust1n plate went on a veteran .is it still around keen to catch up with it .cheers mike ".
Photo of the car with its " AUST1N " plate - date of photo not stated;
Attachment 70285
If anyone has information on the car please post on here or PM me
Plates on Carjam
" TP7 25-Aug-1995
AUST1N 09-Jan-1991
"
Cheers Roger
Last edited by Roger Dowding; 08-31-2021 at 04:04 AM.
Reason: photo lost grr ..###47
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04-01-2022, 04:49 AM
#102
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04-03-2022, 01:00 AM
#103
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04-04-2022, 04:43 AM
#104
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04-04-2022, 06:54 AM
#105
I seem to remember when registering the race bikes as farm machinery that the Registration sticker carried a letter E where the examples above carry a C.
And yeah, all the bikes had to be registered and farm machinery was the cheapest class acceptable. Don't know how common it was on racecars, they tended to get more scrutiny.
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04-04-2022, 05:44 PM
#106
yep, race cars had to be registerd and have a WOF. tractor reg was the cheapest and a daylight WOF solved the light problem
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04-05-2022, 12:53 AM
#107
Interesting. The bikes didn't need a wof - even for street circuits. If you rode it to the meeting, yes you needed a wof for that - but no way could you make something like a Manx road legal so the registration was mainly an ownership tracker.
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04-05-2022, 03:40 AM
#108
These are the regs about registration and WOFs from the 1961 ANZCC National Competition Rules.
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04-05-2022, 04:41 AM
#109
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Excellent,
Thanks, Milan -
I remember seeing race cars, Saloons in particular, with a number plate bolted to the floor inside the car.
There are many photos too, of Grand Prix / Single Seaters with number plates attached to the bodywork from the 1950's 1960's.
Ron Roycroft Austin Seven Special " Rubber Duck " with its Number Plate on its tail a 1946 - 51 plate.
The 1946 -51 Plate.
More for the " History of New Zealand's " Motoring and Motorsport.
Greg T and others thanks for " your inputs " too..
Had the ANZCC Books [ later MANZ Books ] from later in the 1960's when I first competed in Trials and later in Autocross and Sprints where a Competition [ Speed Category ] Licence was required, " Closed Club " then later " Invitation " level Licence
That was a high as I went with Motorsport.
Cheers
Roger
Last edited by Roger Dowding; 05-25-2022 at 12:31 AM.
Reason: photos added ###47
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04-10-2022, 04:05 AM
#110
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NZ Number Plates - Registration, Warrant and Other Stickers - Part 4
1979 into 1980, New Zealands answer to the " Second Oil "crisis, the first being in 1972, not counting the Suez crisis of 1956.
Carless Days [ " Car-Less Days " Officially - or as was referred to Carlos Dias, by some ].
Part of the story - from NZ Memories Magazine in 2020 ;
The Stickers the Seven Days and the Exempt " X " sticker. Auckland University Students are believed to have created there own Sticker which had " Yesterday " as the day, so I am told.
The sticker that was on my Triumph TR4A - chose Tuesday as could carpool with friends to work, and for part of the time had a second car. It meant that Motorsport was not interrupted.
Another Tuesday Sticker with a 1966 -67 Registration Sticker - seems a bit odd, unless current Rego was elsewhere on the windscreen. [ source not known ].
Advert for Carl-Less Day Stickers from John Vevers archives - John is an Austin Guy - Austin 3 Litre cars that is.
During the 1972 crisis Car Clubs made some concessions reducing the length of Trials by 10%, [ basically just plotted a trial that was a bit shorter than the same event the previous year as a guideline ] I think Race meetings ran a couple less races.
The Government had Petrol Stations closing at Midday on Saturday - so our Saturday Trials were held in the morning with a Check at a Petrol Station near the end of the trial so you could fuel up for the rest of weekends motoring.
More to come on Warrants of Fitness, and " Old and New " plates and stickers details.
Last edited by Roger Dowding; 04-17-2022 at 05:44 AM.
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04-11-2022, 09:25 PM
#111
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04-11-2022, 11:58 PM
#112
brtitish columbia in canada, introduced safety checks in 1972 i think. my car was booked in and i was informed of when and where and time. passed easily but i was used to nz wof system.
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04-12-2022, 06:15 AM
#113
UK, IF you register your car as "Historic" status you can choose to not have MOT (equivalent of WOF).There are a lot of rules relating to originality, no engine swaps, wheel changes etc which mean that you may still be required to have the annual MOT. The car must still always be to standard.
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04-13-2022, 04:32 AM
#114
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04-13-2022, 10:36 PM
#115
Roger,
Here in California the pink slip for the automobile is the ownership form, for my job it means something else !
Every two years in order to register our vehicles we have to only pass a smog certification. (No safety check !)
One can have bald tyres, no lights and the doors hanging off and all it needs to register, is to have passed a smog test.
But if you are stopped, be involved in any accident etc. be ready for the insurance companies and lawyers to come down hard !
Only vehicles built later than 1975 need to be smogged so you might be surprised at some of the older cars (Muscle Cars etc) that you see on the road today.
(Ken H)
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04-14-2022, 05:17 AM
#116
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Ken H,
Thanks for the information.
" Every two years in order to register our vehicles we have to only pass a smog certification. (No safety check !) ".
Sounds a bit like Queensland - the onus on the owner to keep the car up to standard.
As another aside;
Remember in Los Angeles [ Ventura ] 1982 we bought a VW Kombi ' 751JMG ' which was a mid 1970's car it had the California SMOG fittings, and " airpump " from memory, and as the car was over 5 years old the VW guy Jim Mann, who was an Austin Healey owner as well, disconnected a belt that drove the "airpump " as it gave us another couple of Horsepower.
Guess it was an easy thing to put a new belt on if required.
A California Plate - not one of the " treasured " Black plates ..
As a matter of interest the " Masterson " noted in the number plate surround - is a Historic Racer, which has been at Laguna Seca
Last edited by Roger Dowding; 04-15-2022 at 07:48 AM.
Reason: Master" S " on corrected ##47
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04-14-2022, 05:58 AM
#117
Roger,
Masterson Motors was a VW dealership in Ventura. CA. that did have a racing division.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives...ventura_ca.php
(That looks like a Lotus 30 # 222 in this old photo taken at Laguna Seca.)
You should have borrowed my 1977 NZER lic. plate which now has a reverse camera hovering over it as this "old codger" needs all the help he can get !
(This plate has been on a number of my vehicles over the 45 years.)
(Now just trying to get my 2001 BMW 325 wagon to pass smog before next month !)
(Ken H )
Last edited by khyndart in CA; 04-14-2022 at 06:07 AM.
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04-15-2022, 07:51 AM
#118
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Ken H,
" Masterson Motors was a VW dealership in Ventura. CA. that did have a racing division. ".
makes sense now 40 years later !!
Like the NZER plate too !!
PS spelling corrected on my post Master'S'on ..
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04-18-2022, 12:48 AM
#119
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05-26-2022, 05:02 AM
#120
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