The Roaring Season

by **Steve Holmes** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:30 am

OK, last two pics from this chapter, and its big banger sports car action. The first shot has Grahame Harvey in the Elfin 400, complete with its tall aerofoil, leading Garry Pederson in the Gemco Oldsmobile, and Digby Taylor in the McBegg. The second shot shows the same three cars, in different order.

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My thanks to Allan for allowing this wonderful collection to be shared on here. I hope you've all enjoyed this first chapter. I'll be beginning Part 2 in the next couple of weeks.

by **Steve Holmes** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:16 pm

Someone spins at the hairpin in the Formula C race.

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by **Steve Holmes** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:14 pm

Here is Peter Hughes battling with Dauntsey Teagle.

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by **Steve Holmes** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:13 pm

Michael, Peter will love this one!

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by **Steve Holmes** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:12 pm

Michael Clark wrote:And and and

Steve, #85 is the same livery as Oxo's car but Dave drove an Elfin 600.

Thanks Michael.

by **Steve Holmes** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:12 pm

Allan wrote:Michael would you please pass on my best wishes to Pete. We both worked at Town and Country Cars in Auckland back in the early 70s which explains the large number of photos of him. Also please tell him that I ran into John Weston recently, with whom Pete shared a FIAT 1500 in a Benson and Hedges race.
Allan Cameron

Thanks Allan, I figured it must have been something like that.

by **Michael Clark** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:25 pm

Will do AC!

by **Allan** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:24 am

Michael would you please pass on my best wishes to Pete. We both worked at Town and Country Cars in Auckland back in the early 70s which explains the large number of photos of him. Also please tell him that I ran into John Weston recently, with whom Pete shared a FIAT 1500 in a Benson and Hedges race.
Allan Cameron

by **Michael Clark** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:37 am

And and and

Steve, #85 is the same livery as Oxo's car but Dave drove an Elfin 600.

by **Michael Clark** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:36 am

I've been forwarding these all on to Pete - I think it fair to say he is pleasantly surprised...

by **Steve Holmes** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:20 am

And another shot of Hughes.

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by **Steve Holmes** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:19 am

Hughes again, chasing, I believe, Jim Murdoch in the Titan. Is this the car David Oxton drove the previous season?

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by **Steve Holmes** » Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:16 am

The small batch of photos that follow and round out this chapter of the Allan Cameron Collection are from the Bay Park Easter event in 1971.

First up is Peter Hughes in the Lotus, now looking less like a Gold Leaf tribute car with its bright pink nose.

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by **Steve Holmes** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 4:54 am

Couple more shots of the lively Hughes and Oxton battle to round out this event.

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by **Steve Holmes** » Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:42 pm

Here is Graeme Lawrence in the Ferrari.

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by **rf84** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:21 pm

They're a dodgy lot in the 'Bay David!

by **David McKinney** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:00 am

rf84 wrote:I am not questioning your knowledge David, but you say the Bill Smith car was a BT6. In the reprint of the Baypark programme (post#130) it is entered as a BT15.

Everyone got Brabham BT numbers wrong back in the day

In fact I once bought a Brabham (in Hawke's Bay) that wasn't a Brabham at all... :rolleyes:

by **stubuchanan** » Fri Aug 30, 2013 9:50 am

David McKinney wrote:No, the ex-Lawrence BT6, which then went to Laurence Brownlie and the usual string of owners before Bill Smith.
IIRC it was converted back from FF spec and raced with a twincam in Historics by Wayne Rodgers and then Paul Higgins before going to Australia

Surprisingly, Graham Vercoe agrees with you in his "Golden Era" book : ( re March 1970 Pukekohe metting) "Bill Smith had acquired Roy Lyme's Brabham after its rebuild from the crash it suffered at Pukekohe.."

Doesn't that gladden your heart, David?

Stu

by **Frosty5** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:36 pm

stubuchanan wrote:Ah.. Wenoopy, my alter ego on another motor racing forum.
Derived from an Oz attempt at pronouncing Whenuapai, with spelling by me. I doubt that if I was confronted with Oodnadatta, Murwillumbah, or Nuriootpa, I would have produced something as melodious as Wenoopy.

Produced in the livery of a well-known NZ brand of tea.

Stu

Try this one Stu, FENUAPIE. Better be careful, the PC brigade could be onto us!!!!!

Cheers Dave

by **rf84** » Thu Aug 29, 2013 10:17 pm

I am not questioning your knowledge David, but you say the Bill Smith car was a BT6. In the reprint of the Baypark programme (post#130) it is entered as a BT15.

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