Minis and Imps

[John McKechnie]

Hi Guys, 2 important photos you need to put up for Minis.Well known Stuart Lush rolling his Mini on the first corner at Puke and it catching fire in mid 70s .Also Peter Batten in early 70s smacking his mini into the out side fence in front of the grand stand, absolutely destroyed it .Both happened right in front of me.
Peter B had new racing tyres , couldnt wait to use them.It was a wet day , he came down off the hill and started aquaplaning.Just a passenger after that.I was at Wally Wymers car sales in early 80s and he had the Herald photo on his wall.I could mention that I had a good photo of me- Mini Cooper S- coming second in a handicap race 1974 at Bay Park, all i had to do was get past Paul Currins Escort 1300 on the last straight to win.I went to the inside of the track to sneak through , but dropped my inside wheel off the edge of the track and spun around. Hero to zero.Good photo it was from Inders with all the usual suspects on my back bumper.Also got disqualified for exceeding my handicap.