Dunedin Street Races - revival meeting January 1984

[Roger Dowding]

These are the numbers the De Soto raced with. All at Pukekohe.

7/12/63 -143
22/2/64 - 148
4/4/64 - 148
7/11/64 - 151
12/12/64 - 112
27/2/65 - 174

It also raced at Matamata in 1964 with 61 and 1965 with 63.

Entry List from the December 1964 Auckland Car Club meeting; arch Graham Woods



This is the Car. running Wire Wheels on the rear, not the twin wheels. - Photo Alan Boyle.



Have found other photos with Race #112, and the car has the Alloy Wheels - are they " Dual "- and the Bonnet has a scoop on it
Both Terry " Steelo " Baker and John Larry Lawton who has been scanning the late Terry's photos have phots of the car - JLL noted as GP meeting but crowd looks small, and his photo has wires.



John Larry Lawton photo on wires and the guards are original - so an earlier meeting than GP 1965.


Lastly from Bruce Thompson archives - who noted it as Dual Wheels, - has the modified rear guards and the scoop and those strange exhaust pipes - did they actually work ??.