Northern Sports Car Club - the early years.

[Roger Dowding]

The Summer of 1976 - 77 saw the Bardahl Series again with Eight Clubs involved.
It was the second time [ 1975 - 76 ] the series had run over the November - March period.
Earlier events in 1973, 1974 and 1975 had been in the January March period.

An article in the May 1977 Edition of the Auckland Car Club Bulletin had the Club Points and Overall Individual winners results.
In the August 1977 ACC Bulletin was an article and the Club, Overall winners and the Class Placings. - the August Bulletin had the Marina photo featured in the previous Post.

Here from Jens Fogelberg's copies the Bulletins are the articles.



The Article and detailed Results;





The Magazine Cover; August 1977

It features the Prizegiving of the ACC TISCO Trial with Graeme Robertson receiving the Trophy from Jack Christie of TISCO and John Busch ACC Trials Sub Committee chairman at the side.
- Image by Milan Fistonic [ phone TGN 5295 ]



Competitor Geoff Hewitt in his 998cc Morris Mini - winner [ as stated ] of the 0 - 1000 cc Class in the 1976/77 series [ ignore the typo in the caption - usually my trick ].

[LegendaryJohnDoe]

Thank you for the info!

[John H]

Tjebbe Bruin, Peter Bruin's younger brother - Peter of Lotus XI and others cars fame.
He was involved in Trialling Hill Climbs and other Motorsport, largely with Auckland Car Club in the 1960's -70's.
He also took or collected a lot of photographs, many from ACC events but some from NSCC, TVCC and other Clubs, and put them in Albums.
Here a set of 4 by John Larry Lawton - the page was 6 photos - 2 from another venue, a TVCC Hill Climb at Maramarua.
14th March 1965 Event.

The photos - from a Peter Bruin Album. Tjebbe Bruin has been posting many images on Old New Zealand Motor Racing with details where known of people and the photographer - if not him.

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Results from the Event - from NSCC " Club Torque " Magazine of the time - Graham Woods archive.

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Originals of the individual photos were published by John Larry Lawton previously. Thought they were familiar.
Jamie Aislabie Cooper - Jaguar [ ** Bobtail ],
Barry Munro Beach Buggy,
Rod Coppins Zephyr Corvette,
Jack Nazer Lotus Anglia.

** see notes about the Cooper - Jaguar of Jamie Aislabie . the Cooper Jaguar was not a Bobtail rear engined car but a front engined car

The full page from the Album with both the TVCC and NSCC events.

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A busy Motoring weekend TVCC 13th and NSCC 14th March 1965

Had a note from John Larry Lawton who corrected me . Tjebbe Bruin is Peter Bruin's younger brother - now changed

Hi Roger.. I see this site is still operating well. That sure is the Maramarua hill climb. I grew up near there. BTW I caught up with the Peter Bruin built car that I raced for one race about 1976. I'm now 80 but remember the race into the elbow in my Zepher very clearly. Happy to fill in any details if anyone needs

[Roger Dowding]

Hi Roger.. I see this site is still operating well. That sure is the Maramarua hill climb. I grew up near there. BTW I caught up with the Peter Bruin built car that I raced for one race about 1976. I'm now 80 but remember the race into the elbow in my Zepher very clearly. Happy to fill in any details if anyone needs

Good to hear / read a note from you John H... Thanks for the note, any contributions most welcome. Cheers Roger